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Students Gather at Bentley to Tackle Diversity Issues at National Summit

November 13, 2013
It may have been 8 a.m., but Diversity Trainer Maura Cullen captured the attention of more than 250 students from 26 universities at this year’s Diversity Student Summit hosted by Bentley University in October. The one-day, high-energy conference is designed to mobilize students and staff to be innovative in creating and sustaining more inclusive campus communities.

EPA Recognizes Bentley University for Leading Green Power Purchase

November 8, 2013
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recognized Bentley University among theTop 30 College & University listof the largest green power users.

You should never stop being a kid, until you're born again... as a kid

November 8, 2013

I'm sure most of you must have the read the Calvin and Hobbes (CnH) collection. I'm a big fan of the comic strip series. Some think the kid in me never goes to sleep, some think i'm thinking less and imagining more, and some.... some simply ignore my addiction! ... Calvin is one of those kids who imagines of saving the world along with his faithful tiger (who by the way is a fiction in a fiction.. as in he is a figure of Calvin's imagination)...

UN Global Compact Executive Director Addresses How Responsible Business Impacts Public-Private Partnerships

November 4, 2013
At Bentley University’s 20th Raytheon Lecture in Business Ethics on November 5, Georg Kell addresses the United Nations’ challenge to move from incremental change and progress on a massive scale as it continues to promote cooperation among governments, businesses and civil service organizations.

Activist Zach Wahls Encourages People to Put Gender Aside at Rainbow Luncheon

October 30, 2013
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 Places First in National Beta Alpha Psi Competition

October 30, 2013
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 PreparedU Project: Millennials in the Workplace

October 17, 2013

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

October 16, 2013

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.”

FOX25 Morning News Broadcasts Live From Bentley

October 10, 2013
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.

Gloria Larson Co-Hosts "The Hays Advantage" on Bloomberg Radio

October 10, 2013
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.