University News

The Women's Leadership Institute (WLI) at Bentley University will once again present a workshop series for mothers who are weighing their career options. "M.O.M.: More Opportunities for Mothers" is designed to assist women who are beginning to make decisions about the next phases of work and life. The five-week series runs on Wednesdays - March 2, March 9, March 23, and April 6, and April 13, 2011 - from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at the Bentley campus in Waltham. Mass.

Bentley University Professor of Marketing Rajendra (Raj) Sisodia was named a 2010 Top 100 Thought Leader in Trustworthy Business Behavior by Trust Across America, a collaborative initiative from Next Decade Inc. that is committed to rebuilding trust in business.

Patrick Gnazzo, the Former Chief Risk & Compliance Officer, CA Technologies, and former Chief Compliance Officer at United Technologies Corporation (UTC) will deliver the keynote lecture in the Verizon Professorship in Business Ethics on Monday, February 7th at 3:30 PM in Wilder Pavilion, Adamian Academic Center at Bentley University.

The Bentley University Board of Trustees has elected four new members: Dale L. Carleton, former vice chairman and executive vice president at State Street Corporation; John (Jack) W. Cumming, chairman of the board and executive officer at Hologic Inc.; Rosabeth Moss Kanter, author and Harvard Business School Professor of Management; and Jeroen van den Hoven, professor of Moral Philosophy and vice dean of the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management at Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands.

Bentley University is once again offering a unique experience for high school students this summer with the Wall Street 101 business camp.  Held on the Bentley campus in Waltham, Mass., the week-long program allows high school students to engage in the fundamentals of Wall Street through a technology-rich and interactive curriculum.

Rehema Ellis, education correspondent for NBC News, will be the keynote speaker for the 25th annual Celebration for Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., at Bentley University on Tuesday, January 25, 2011, from 8:00 to 10:00 a.m., in the Executive Dining Room in the LaCava Center.

A group of Bentley University students teamed up with nonprofit Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI) in Washington, D.C., to survey the attitudes of approximately 20 New England small business owners on issues of energy consumption, energy efficiency, and long-term energy planning for their businesses. On December 6 and 7, the students traveled to Capitol Hill to present their research findings to key decision makers and groups in Washington, including staffers from the offices of Senator John Kerry (MA), Senator Jeanne Shaheen (NH), Sen

Bentley University Professor Richard Cleary received the Howard Eves Award from the Northeastern Section of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA). The award was presented on November 17 at the 55th Annual Fall Sectional Meeting held at Providence College in Rhode Island.

Bentley University professor Pierre Berthon's current research received the Best Paper Award on the Marketing Strategy Track of the 2010 Australia and New Zealand Marketing Academy Conference (ANZMAC).  Berthon co-wrote the paper "Creative Consumers: Awareness, Attitude & Action - Instrument & Preliminary Results" with Colin Campbell (Simon Frazer University), Leyland Pitt (Simon Frazer University) and Ian McCarthy (Simon Frazer University).  The award was presented at the annual conference held at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand from November 30 to December 2,

Bentley University Associate Professor of Economics Dhaval Dave was appointed Gibbons Research Professor of Economics. During the three year professorship, Dave will pursue research projects that investigate the intersection of economic and financial factors, individuals' risk-taking through various modes, and outcomes or behaviors related to health and human capital.