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Recipe for Success

November 19, 2021
Tom Yuen ’05, MST ’05, grew up in his parents’ restaurant but knew he wasn’t going to grow old there.   “I didn’t want to cook,” he remembers, “and they didn’t let me cook.”  Yuen is the oldest son of Chinese immigrants who came to the United…

Breaking Barriers

November 18, 2021
Pat Flynn will never forget the first time she interviewed for a corporate board position.  It was the late 1990s, and the Economics professor — who was also serving as dean of Bentley’s McCallum Graduate School of Business — was meeting the president of…

‘That is what this flag represents’

November 16, 2021
(On Monday, members of the community gathered for the annual Trans Pride flag raising to start Transgender Awareness Week. Matt Banks, assistant director in the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, gave the welcoming remarks.) Welcome, everyone. I am excited to…

Diving In

November 15, 2021
Falcon student-athlete Rona Mejiritski ’22 found commonalities between swimming and financial analysis — then turned it into a career path at Nike.  “I love how the detailed pieces of financial analysis come together at…

Strategic Maven

November 10, 2021
Elaine Dickson MBA ’98 says she always wanted to be a journalist. That didn’t happen (yet), but she is putting her investigative skills to work as certified fraud examiner and CEO of her company, Mavenly Consultants.  “Working in…

REACH Beyond Domestic Violence: A new campus resource at Bentley

November 9, 2021

Accounting for Bias

November 4, 2021
In 1921, John W. Cromwell, Jr. became America’s first Black certified public accountant. Despite graduating Phi Beta Kappa from Dartmouth College in 1906 with advanced degrees in mathematics and astronomy, Cromwell was forced to wait 15 years before he was…

Bentley Offers UMass Tuition to First-Generation Students

November 4, 2021
Bentley University will offer first-generation students from Massachusetts a private university education for the price of a state university. The BentleyFirst program provides a scholarship that allows first-generation students to attend Bentley for the same…

Honors and Awards: Fall 2021

October 29, 2021

Plugged In Business

October 29, 2021
On a Saturday morning in late July 2021 just before 8 a.m., Gabriel San Miguel '22 was standing outside a local shop in Puerto Rico waiting for the doors to open. By 6 p.m., he had talked to dozens of shop owners and managers. No, he’s not a shopaholic. San…