Bentley University News

The Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts honored Bentley University President Gloria Cordes Larson as one of six remarkable role models at the 19th Annual Girl Scouts of Eastern Mass. Leading Women Awards Breakfast held at the Seaport Hotel in Boston on November 9, 2010.  The honorees were chosen because they exemplify the Girl Scout mission to build women of courage, confidence and character and their desire to make the world a better place.

Bentley placed first in the regional 2010 College Fed Challenge, an annual monetary policy debate competition for undergraduate college students, held on November 15 and sponsored by the Federal Reserve System and select regional Federal Reserve districts. Bentley was among 19 teams --including Harvard College, Yale University, Tufts University, Dartmouth College and Boston College - that competed for the Boston Federal Reserve District title.

Scholars from around the world gathered at Bentley University for the Dewald Roode Information Security Workshop 2010 IFIP WG 8.11/11/13, in October. Aimed at advancing the research discipline of information systems security through the creation, dissemination, and preservation of well-formed research, the highly competitive workshop is held annually in locations around the globe; the inaugural event was held in Cape Town, South Africa in 2009.

Bentley University received a US$50,000 grant from KPMG, the global network of professional services firms, to explore the ability of a fraud knowledge management tool to enhance the work of public company auditors. Principal investigators include Bentley Professor of Accountancy Jay Thibodeau, Bentley PhD student Denise Hanes, and James Bierstaker of Villanova University.

Bentley University Professor Pierre Berthon won a 2010 Best Paper Award from Business Horizons for the paper entitled "Event Sponsorship and Ambush Marketing: Lessons from the Beijing Olympics,"  published in the May-June 2010 issue. The article outlines the "Li Ning Affair" - how major Olympic sponsor Adidas was ambushed by a lesser-known Chinese competitor, Li Ning, whose namesake founder lit the Olympic flame at the 2008 Beijing Olympiad.

Bentley Executive Education hosted a group of 16 managers and executives from Stellenbosch University in South Africa for a one-week executive education study trip focusing on socially responsible business management practice in September 2010. The program included lectures by professors Tony Buono, Joel Deichmann, Raj Sisodia and Chip Wiggins, with visits to three local companies with a history of socially conscious management practice -- Jordan's Furniture, Trillium Investments, and National Grid.

Medicus International New York and Bentley University will collaborate on the development of a curriculum to train healthcare providers in interpersonal communication skills. Medicus International New York will be working with Helen Meldrum, EdD, Associate Professor of Psychology at Bentley University, to create educational programs to enhance interpersonal communication that can be delivered as in-service presentations in a wide variety of healthcare settings across the country.

Students and faculty at Bentley University, in cooperation with the Bentley Service-Learning Center, have launched an anti-bullying campaign that extends from their Waltham, Mass. community into local schools and nearby communities. Designed to be run by students, the One Goal, One Community: Moving Beyond Bullying and Empowering for Life initiative is focused on educating community members and soliciting their commitment to help change behaviors and put an end to bullying.

Andrew Liveris, the President, CEO, and Chairman of The Dow Chemical Company will be the keynote speaker at the 15^th annual Raytheon Lecture in Business Ethics at Bentley University on November 4, 2010, at 3:30 p.m. in Wilder Pavilion, Adamian Academic Center. Liveris will speak about the central place of ethics in Dow's long-term business strategy.

A study co-authored by Bentley University assistant professor of Accountancy Rani Hoitash and Northeastern University faculty members Olubunmi Faleye and Udi Hoitash examines whether various roles of the Board of Directors of public companies overshadow each other.