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Navigating the Numbers

October 5, 2020
Jhansi (Jen) Potluri, MBA, MSBA ’21, realized at an early age that she didn’t have to be behind a lab bench to help advance science. Her mother works on software development for a kidney dialysis company, and Potluri grew up just outside of Boston and its…

A Passion for Cold Brew

September 10, 2020
Aman Ailani ’20 is the founder of SAH.OL Cold Brew, a ready-to-drink cold brew product made with only two ingredients: coffee grinds and water. A Management major with a minor in Entrepreneurial Studies, Ailani won Bentley’s inaugural Shark Tank Pitch…

Muscle Cars and Miniature Models

July 23, 2020
Almost nothing brings Brian Shultz ’80, MBA ’87 more joy than giving new friends — and interviewers — a tour of his basement. “See this here?” he asks, holding a large toy box. It reads Barney’s Auto Factory and shows a boy from the early ’60s playing with…

‘A Commitment to Making the World a Better Place’

July 14, 2020
Ahmadou Balde, MBA ˊ18 Works to Improve Education, Healthcare and Training Services in Guinea (Above: Ahmadou Balde with students at a school that is part of NAD Partnership, where he is COO.) “Business is a social…

Inside Job: Peak Experience

July 1, 2020
College business professor Mark Milewski, MBA ’00 is a faithful student of Mother Nature, having spent scores of summer and winter breaks in her glorious classroom.  In late 2019, he aced her final test. The alumnus is approximately the 160th person…

An Eye for Analytics

June 22, 2020
Growing up in Abuja, Nigeria, Pearl Brian-Esema, MBA, MSBA ’19 remembers her father inviting her to listen in on his business calls. It wasn’t so much the topic of buying and selling crude oil that interested her. She was intrigued by the specialized terms and…

Shielding the Front Line

May 13, 2020
Unlike other alumni who are running into production roadblocks due to a lack of materials amid the pandemic, Daryl Flynn ’93, co-president of Plastic Design, Inc. is lacking people. Namely, workers at his custom plastic fabrications company in Chelmsford…

When “I Did Everything Right” Isn’t Enough

May 8, 2020
“But, I did everything right.” Of the 30 million Americans who filed for initial unemployment claims in the last two months, were furloughed or laid off as a result of the coronavirus, this is most likely a common thought. They studied hard and got to work.…

“Make Me a Hand Sanitizer — Neat”

April 29, 2020
What do hand sanitizer and your favorite cocktail have in common? Ethanol — a.k.a. alcohol. Since early March, countless distilleries and spirit manufacturers across the country have swapped legacy recipes and aging barrels for an FDA-approved compound and…

5,000 a Day by May

April 23, 2020
Update: Since our first interview, Gravity Diagnostics has processed more than 200,000 COVID-19 samples and met its goal of averaging 5,000 per day. As of July 9, the highest single-day total was 7,000. The company built a second lab and is running six days a…