Research

“Finding solutions for local, national, and global health challenges calls for a coordinated approach cutting across business and the arts and sciences,” says Health TLN Director Danielle Blanch Hartigan, assistant professor of natural and applied sciences. “We’re leveraging the critical mass of individuals at Bentley involved in health-related research and practice.” 

Please peruse the following select examples of our faculty research efforts that have either been published or accepted by leading outlets, as well as examples of awards and honors our faculty have received. For previous lists, click here.

Proving once again that the whole can be greater than the sum of its parts, the Data Innovation Network emerged from five earlier Thought Leadership Networks at the university. Like these smaller ventures, the Data Innovation TLN invites collaboration by scholars across disciplines and with external partners. 

On May 20, 2011, an explosion in an Apple iPad manufacturing factory in southwestern China killed four workers and injured 18. Analyzing this tragedy and automotive industry recalls has lead researchers at Bentley and Northeastern to propose a new model for predicting--and preventing--the costs of unethical behavior in business.

Despite story after story of large global buyers attempting to address them, inequities, unfairness, and unsafe working conditions in underdeveloped parts of the world continue. What can be done? 

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.”

Tony Kiszewski, associate professor of natural and applied sciences at Bentley, weighs in on how the Zika virus could affect New England.

Bentley Associate Professor of Management Jill Brown’s scholarship on corporate social responsibility (CSR) has earned her co-authorship of a leading textbook in the field.

Bentley’s Center for Integration of Science and Industry (CISI), founded in 2013 with a $1.3M grant from the National Biomedical Research Foundation (NBRF), was awarded renewed funding: $2.3M through 2020. 

Please peruse the following select examples of faculty research that have either been published or accepted by leading outlets. For previous lists, click here.