Dear Faculty, Staff and Students,
As residential students move into residence halls this week, we’re continuing to move closer to Monday’s start of the fall trimester. Testing has gone smoothly for our new arrivals to campus thanks to the efforts of our Health Center and Screening Test Program staff. This week’s updates include the launch of our COVID-19 Testing Dashboard and a new process for accessing buildings on campus.
What’s the benefit of a specialized university?
For a young person drawn toward a particular field of study, such as engineering, or music, or business, a specialized university offers more advantages than you might think.
Once dismissed as vocational, top professional schools nowadays operate on the premise that the best career preparation includes a deep embrace of the liberal arts.
A growing proportion of all B-to-B transactions are facilitated by interorganizational coordination hubs (ICHs). How well do the participants in these hubs make key decisions about the way they work with each other through the hub — and interact with the organization that runs the hub?
As the winter chill sets in, I am warmly recalling a teaching experience I had at Bentley in spring 2012. That’s when I taught the history of sports for the first time.
My students may have been a little jarred by the experience. Initially enthusiastic, these sports-loving undergrads encountered considerably more history, and completed vastly more reading and writing, than any of them anticipated.
Mohammed Yunis came up with a good idea: Give small loans to people who don’t have access to capital. A high percentage of the world’s population lives at a subsistence level. They spend all they make on food, and have none left for an “investment” that might make their microbusiness more profitable. If you could buy more bananas in the first place, your profit would be higher. If you could buy a cart, you could bring more bananas back to your village to sell than you’ve been able to carry yourself.