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Two Join Board of Trustees

December 3, 2021
New trustee Pauline  Callender  Han ’91 excels at formulating business strategy and building and motivating teams. Her current role at The Walt Disney Company, which she joined in 1995, is vice president of global product and labor standards. Bestselling…

Take Two: Commerce + COVID

December 3, 2021
Take Two: Commerce + COVID The pandemic changed the way that people shop and companies sell. Brandon Hendrix ’06 and faculty member Shelle Santana trade insights on which online buying habits and marketing…

Bentley Student-Athletes Earn Highest Graduation Rate in the Country

December 2, 2021
For the fifth straight year, Bentley University’s student-athletes have the highest graduation rate in the nation at 99 percent, according to the latest NCAA Division II Academic Success Rate report. The Academic Success Rate represents the percentage of…

Helping Others Hit Their Mark

November 22, 2021
Over the course of nearly 40 years at Bentley, Assistant Professor David Missirian has taught countless students the best practices surrounding law and taxation. But for the past 15 years, Missirian has done his fair share of teaching outside of the classroom…

Bentley Master's Fellowship Aims to Increase Accounting Industry Diversity

November 19, 2021
This fall Bentley University is joining some of the world’s biggest accounting firms in launching initiatives that will help create a more inclusive industry for underrepresented groups. The newly launched Master’s in Accounting Fellowship will provide full…

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…