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Failure 101: Teaching Students How To Handle Setbacks

KJZZ |
Counseling Center Director, Peter Forkner, is interviewed about how colleges and universities are teaching students it's ok to have setbacks and helping them deal with failure in productive ways.

CIO Quickstart Guide: Developing a Technology Strategy

Heller Search Associates |
Bentley's Chief Information Officer, Bob Wittstein, provides important and useful tips on developing an IT strategy.

2019's Best Unsecured Credit Cards for Bad Credit

Wallet Hub |
Senior Lecturer of Finance, Phil Uhlmann, provides his expert opinion on unsecured credit cards and bad credit scores. 

Firms' Measure of Success Should Go Beyond the Bottom Line, Experts Say

Newsday |
Jill Brown, associate professor of Management at Bentley University, discusses how stakeholders consider social performance indicators to be just as important as financial performance. 

Barriers And Bias Continue To Hold Women Back In The Workplace, Report Finds

WBUR |
A curated research report from the Center for Women and Business looks at why the number of women drops off through the ranks of leadership in companies and discusses the leaky corporate pipeline. 

Failure 101: Colleges Teach Students How To Cope with Setbacks

Wall Street Journal |
Bentley is featured for its efforts to show students the value of failure. Sheila Atiemo ’20 shares her struggle when an accounting class doesn't go as planned. Director of the Counseling Center, Peter Forkner, talks about why there’s no shame in failure.

Course With Many A’s Could Indicate a Determined Instructor

The Chronicle of Higher Education |
In this letter to the editor, Associate Professor of Sociology Miriam Boeri asserts that grade inflation can indicate a professor is working harder to make sure every student understands the material.

Get the Feeling You’re Being Watched? It’s Not Your Imagination!

RT |
Steven Weisman, senior lecturer of Law, Taxation, and Financial Planning, discusses what people can do to guard their privacy on the Internet. 

CEOs Have Never Been More Idolized. 5 Experts Explain Why That’s a Problem.

VOX |
Jeffrey Moriarty, chair of the Philosophy department, explains how people overestimate the power leaders have in the business world.

Science Takes a Dim View of Business - Perhaps to the Disadvantage of Science

StatNews |
Research conducted by the Center for Integration of Science and Industry at suggests that when business is mentioned in the biology textbooks of undergraduate college students, the context is often negative.