Research

United Fruit Co. in Guatemala. Aramco in Saudi Arabia. Blackwater and Halliburton in Iraq. We are familiar with a few private American companies that have played at foreign policy in our recent history. One of the first and ultimately most influential, however, is also the least known.

From among a large portfolio of publications, we’d like to bring the following articles and books that have either been published or accepted by leading outlets to your attention as examples of the type of research our faculty are engaged in. 

Bentley Professor of English and Media Studies Gesa Kirsch is the recipient of the 2015-2016 Mee Family Prize.  

Research from the Center for Integration of Science and Industry at Bentley University offers a hopeful view of the prospects for new Alzheimer’s drugs.

Can economic principles encourage healthful eating so you choose an apple over, say, a doughnut? Two Bentley experts consider the issues. 

A new study reveals that the Great Recession has taught millennials some tough lessons about saving for retirement.

Internet and web-based technologies are changing the traditional marketplace — and human emotion is helping reinvent this consumer culture. 

Hosted by the Dean of Business, the Dean of Arts and Sciences, and the Jeanne and Dan Valente Center for Arts and Sciences, the Bentley community recently came together to toast faculty members who have published a book in the past year (2014-2015).

In a way, getting fat makes sense.

Indeed, people are growing obese on a global scale. As nearly the whole world gets steadily fatter, economists are taking a closer look at why we make the unhealthy choices we do. Our fattening decisions make rational economic sense, they say, but only if we ignore the future.

The concept of Big Data is constantly changing depending on the state of the art in technology.