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Listen to This Article   As the real estate market starts to settle down, what will it mean for you as a buyer, seller, renter or investor? We asked Bentley alumni in the field to weigh in. 

Listen to This Article One of the first things John Brown ’88 did after moving to Chelsea, Mass., was put in a garden full of peppers. It included the legendarily hot ghost pepper variety.   His kitchen became a lab for perfecting a recipe that…

Listen to This Article   The cannabis industry ended 2021 with national sales of $25 billion, which experts predict will double by 2026. It employs nearly half a million people in medical and recreational markets across 37 states. It has seen jobs…

Listen to This Article   Mentoring and Meaning Is it really all about the paycheck? For Gen Z, not so much. The Bentley – Gallup Force for Good survey found that 71% of young Americans say they’d switch jobs to work at a company that has a…

Alumni share photos, stories and gratitude for friendships that started in dorms and elsewhere at Bentley. Send yours for a future issue. 1974 As students, from left: Barry Arntz ’74, MBA ’84; Paul Gagnon ’75; Paul “Tango” Tangusso ’75; Kenneth Sawicki ’74…

Listen to This Article   Emily Wilder, MBA ’19 is bringing a taste of the Pacific Northwest to customers near and far. Her 2-year-old online store, Salinity Seafood & More, features food and wares from Washington state.   “I’ve always…

Listen to This Article   Access and opportunity. Both are vital for creating a stronger, more supportive, more vibrant community. The best resources ensure the best and brightest not only arrive — they thrive. Whole-Hearted Service Trustee Rob Alan ’91 counts March 3, 2023, as his proudest day at Bentley, when more than 250 fellow Falcons joined him on campus to officially dedicate the Claudette Blot Multicultural Center Lounge.   The space is the first on… Generational Talent  “I am the grandson of immigrants,” Rick Oricchio ’78 told families at the First-Generation Pinning Ceremony in October. “They came with nothing but the desire to work and put their children and families in a place where they saw… Arriving and Thriving Once a student enrolls, how does Bentley help them thrive? It takes partners like Dan Farley, MBA ’95; the trustee has donated $250,000 for programs that support first-generation student success. Farley is impressed with the vision of… Securing Success Angelo G. Manioudakis ’88 is paying his father’s dream forward: He and wife Melani Cammett gave $10,000 to the First-Generation Student Success Fund as a match challenge during Falcons Forward. A first-gen student himself, the CIO of…

At universities across the country, what should be a core principle — the discussion of divergent opinions from different viewpoints  — has bumped up against a bureaucratic desire to avoid conflict and uncomfortable conversations. Avoiding hard…

Listen to This Article   In 2015, Enis Karavil ’06 was chasing his dream, working and studying interior architecture in London and collecting kudos for redesigning his own home there.   But in their regular phone calls, Amir Karavil ’10…