Nick Stavropoulos ’79 knows about energy. Over his 30-year career in the natural gas and electricity-distribution industry, he has powered through – and often overseen – seismic changes in the sector’s technology, scale and mission.
As a Bentley trustee, Stavropoulos is among those working to give the MBA program a new charge.
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Bernie Madoff may hold the record as world’s worst financial-adviser-turned-crook, but Brad Bleidt is a close second. In 2004, Bleidt confessed to stealing millions of dollars from his investment clients over two decades. No one was more surprised by the swindle than his wife, Bonnie Kirchner.
Now divorced from Bleidt, the certified financial planner and former TV business reporter has published Who Can You Trust with Your Money? Get the Help You Need Now and Avoid Dishonest Advisers.
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Dipayan Biswas wants to know what you like. More to the point, he wants to know why you like it. The associate professor of marketing has studied people’s responses in sampling “experiential” products -- beverages, music, fragrances, and the like – which appeal directly to the senses.
His research into the factors that influence consumer preferences has turned up a surprise: A product’s impression on the taste buds or ear drums matters less than you would expect. More influential, perhaps, is the order in which products are sampled.
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If you’re having problems with a piece of high-tech gear, the cliché is to enlist a child to help fix that troublesome computer or DVR. Funny thing, it’s true – to an extent. But it’s not experience with gadgetry that makes youngsters such worthy assistants. It’s their lack of preconceived ideas about how technology should operate.
Cynthia Kamishlian, a research associate at Bentley’s Design and Usability Center, is out to understand how the younger set behave around technology. And the knowledge may benefit more than children’s learning.
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Hauling 60-plus pounds of geological gear up mountains. Purifying ancient marine shells for cutting-edge analysis. Rendering educational concepts into mathematical expressions. These professional-level adventures were the stuff of summer for three Bentley juniors.
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Dominique Miles ’11 arrived on campus packing ambitions to be a pioneer of change. “I was always told that I could be anything I wanted to be,” she recalls of growing up in Atlanta, Ga. “Nothing was impossible.”
That message of empowerment is one that Miles aims to deliver to women elsewhere in the world. She already has a well-stamped passport, thanks to global programs at Bentley.
Her journey started with a short-term study abroad program in the North African country of Morocco.