Speaking to a record crowd at Bentley’s Rainbow Luncheon celebrating diversity, on October 23, keynote speaker Zach Wahls tackled the question “What makes a family?” and included his own experience as the son of two lesbian mothers whose ability to marry was dependent on legislative decisions.

Bentley senior Evan O’Keeffe, along with other students from across the nation belonging to Beta Alpha Psi honors organization for financial information students, won first place in the 2013 Project Run With It case competition.

The Millennial Preparedness Survey questioned 3,000 respondents across nine audiences and examined skills, traits, use of technology, workplace attitudes and expectations, along with opinions of executives about millennials and vice versa, and much more. The survey identified a number of solutions to alleviate the preparedness problem and found high levels of agreement among different stakeholders on those solutions. But the study also highlights a lack of consensus in how stakeholders actually define preparedness and views vary on which skills are needed.

Why Innovation is Stuck in Slow Motion

Creating economic growth from the third industrial revolution

Business innovation has a problem. A recent working paper by Robert Gorden titled “Is US Economic Growth Over? Faltering Innovation Confronts the Six Headwinds” suggests that “innovation does not have the same potential to create growth in the future as in the past.”

On Friday, October 11, the Bloomberg radio team will broadcast the show "The Hays Advantage" live from the Bentley Trading Room from 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. and we encourage faculty, staff and students to drop by and observe.

On Thursday, October 10th, FOX25 Morning News broadcast live from the Bentley campus from 6:00 a.m – 10:00 a.m. This event is part of a new, 6-week “College Tour” series the station is launching this fall. Every Thursday through November 7th, FOX25 will broadcast live from a different New England College campus.

Dean Dan Everett informed the community today that Diane Moul, a senior lecturer in the English and Media Studies Department, passed away on Friday, October 4, after a long battle with cancer.

Hi again. As I mentioned in a previous post, the Bentley MBA is focused around four key themes of business: innovation, value, environment and leadership. In the first 12 weeks of the BMBA, we have focused on the innovation theme. We have considered the concepts of creative thinking in small and large organizations, explored the psychology of the innovator’s mind, learned how to elevate an innovation to a business case and, after launching an innovation to start a business, how to sustain the innovation process. Yes, we covered all of this in 12 weeks.

When the Bentley Microfinance Group (BMG) was launched in 2008, artisan Frank Burns was the group’s second microloan recipient. Five years later, a lot has changed for both sides. Burns is selling handmade pieces in the woodworking studio. The $800 loan he took allowed him to purchase materials to produce more pieces. The 40-member student-run organization has made a total of five microloans, and recently published one of the first student-edited, student-run, microfinance journal.

Playground construction became a lesson on service, as Bentley students traded laptops and books for wrenches and shovels on September 17 to join community partners to build a play space at Prospect Hill Terrace low-income housing development in Waltham, Mass.