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Get ready to experience the world in a new way. Lively innovation is at the heart of a cultural movement that is picking up speed. In 2014, you’ll see established approaches to a wide range of services and products rethought and shaped more to human experience, according to experts at Bentley University.

Bentley Releases Results of Major National Survey of 3,000-Plus Millennials, Parents, and Business and Higher Ed Leaders.

 

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a South African social-rights activist, once said: “We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.” Cultures, religions, political systems, businesses, landscapes, climate or seasons — we can find diversity in all of them and the list could go on and on. Diversity creates contrasts and contrasts make life exciting; some people even say contrasts make life possible. A friend of mine mentioned that he finds his evening beer tastes better after a hard working day.

During the biotech IPO boom in 2000, a lot of people made money; but very few products ever made it into the hands of consumers. Research by Bentley University’s Laura McNamee and Fred Ledley credits the problem to poor business models that have a glaring gap between science and business.

By Maura Robinson

Are college graduates ready to face ethical dilemmas on the job? Business ethics pioneer Kirk O. Hanson will share his research regarding the top ethics issues that professionals experience during the course of their career as he presents: “The Six Ethical Dilemmas Every Professional Faces” at the Verizon Lectureship in Business Ethics at Bentley University on February 3 at 3:30 p.m.

Leading historian of African American photography Deborah Willis speaks at Bentley University annual breakfast honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. January 28, 2014.

Dear Reader,

Mahendra Gujarathi and Jay Thibodeau appointed Rae D. Anderson Professors of Accountancy, recognized for for scholarship, education and service for the university, for academia more broadly, and for the profession.

A combination of technical skills and business acumen propelled a team of undergraduate students from Bentley University and Northeastern University to first place in a competition against seriously tech-savvy contenders from across the U.S. at the Supercomputing Conference in Colorado.