Are college graduates ready to face ethical dilemmas on the job? Business ethics pioneer Kirk O. Hanson will share his research regarding the top ethics issues that professionals experience during the course of their career as he presents: “The Six Ethical Dilemmas Every Professional Faces” at the Verizon Lectureship in Business Ethics at Bentley University on February 3 at 3:30 p.m.

Mahendra Gujarathi and Jay Thibodeau appointed Rae D. Anderson Professors of Accountancy, recognized for for scholarship, education and service for the university, for academia more broadly, and for the profession.

Do radio and TV ads for new prescription drugs steer consumers toward newer, high-priced products? Bentley professor Dhaval Dave says “yes,” according to a recent study of the implications of both broadcast and non-broadcast direct-to-consumer advertising on rising prescription drug costs and demand.

Fred D. Ledley, Professor of Natural & Applied Sciences and Management, and Director of the Center for Integration of Science and Industry, was named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He will be recognized at the AAAS Annual Meeting in Chicago in February 2014.

Bentley Accountancy Professor Mahendra Gujarathi wants his students to understand that contrary to textbooks, the answers to accounting issues in the real world are not black and white but shades of gray. He teaches this through experiential education using real-world cases. One such case earned Gujarathi the Emerson Ethics Award from the North American Case Research Association (NACRA).

Why Innovation is Stuck in Slow Motion

Creating economic growth from the third industrial revolution

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.”

R&D Stimulus

An entrepreneur’s view on the effects of GDP revisions on R&D investment and the economy

Entrepreneurs should pay attention to recent changes in the way the U.S. calculates Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The revision, which shifts research and development (R&D) from an operating expense to a fixed investment, could stimulate greater R&D spending and promote much-needed technological innovation.

English professor Gesa Kirsch was accepted to the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute “Transcendentalism and Social Action in the Age of Emerson, Thoreau, and Fuller,” July 7 to 20 in Concord, Mass.

Woolford received the 2013 Distinguished Science Alumni Award from the College of Science at Purdue University, an award that recognizes alumni for outstanding achievement in professional and related fields of endeavor.

Interpersonal relationships prove to be critical to the success of projects for globally distributed virtual teams, according to Bentley University professors S. Balaji, Donald Chand and Gary David. Their research earned a Best Paper Award from the Global Business Development Institute.