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.

Daniel Everett discussed the documentary of his life living among the Pirahã people of Brazil in what began as a Christian mission and grew into an in-depth study of the tribe’s singular language and culture in which there is no God. The film, Grammar of Happiness, was featured in The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science Film Showcase on Wednesday, February 13.

Bentley Professor of Marketing Raj Sisodia and Whole Foods Market Co-Founder, Co-CEO John Mackey encourage free market capitalism and provide a business model for grounded, ethical business practice in their new book “Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business.”

Why do marketers continue to get gender wrong? While many women’s gender roles have changed in the last 50 years, you would never know it from the types of ad appeals and product innovations companies are rolling out in order to capture the lucrative women’s market.

Papa Sarr, Bentley’s Director of the Center for International Students and Scholars, recently spent two weeks in Germany studying the country’s culture and educational system as a recipient of a Fulbright award to the U.S. – Germany International Education Administrators Program.

Noga was awarded a Professor in Residence with the global professional services firm and is spending her fall sabbatical working in the Chicago office to increase her understanding of the demands her students will face after graduation.

Dr. Khedija Arfaoui, a feminist activist and one of the leading intellectuals in Tunisia, joins Bentley as a visiting scholar with the Valente Center for the Arts and Sciences.