On Thursday, March 18, 2010, beginning at 4:00 p.m. in the Adamian Wilder Pavilion, the Center for Business Ethics is honored to announce Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business School Professor of Management Chair & Director of Harvard’s Advanced Leadership Initiative Co-Founder & Chair of Goodmeasure, Inc. She will speak to the Bentley community as the next Raytheon lecturer in business ethics.

The title of her talk is “Values Investing: How Companies Create Innovation, Profits, & Social Good.” In this talk, Professor Kanter will discuss key insights that follow from a three-and-a-half-year investigation that served as the basis of her recent book SuperCorp. She will argue that there are strong potential synergies between financial performance and attention to community and social needs. By embracing values and focusing on the world outside the organization, companies can gain a competitive advantage while responding to social problems.

Kanter’s book, Super Corp., will be on sale for $5.00 CASH at the reception in the Dandes room following the lecture.

PROJECT HAITI PACKAGES NOW ON SALE!

From March 15 to March 25, Project Haiti packages will be on sale at the following locations: Third Floor of Smith from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., LaCava Dining Hall from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Outside Seasons from 11 p.m. to 7 p.m. Each package costs 10 dollars, and contains a Project Haiti t-shirt, a Help Haiti wristband and a student-produced Project Haiti CD. In addition to the above items, the purchase of a Project Haiti package includes one ticket to the March 26th Project Haiti Carnival in the Student Center! From a live comedy show to a night of live music, this is one event no Bentley student should miss. We hope you will be a part of the movement and buy into the relief fund.

Henrietta Genfi Honored with Advising Award

Henrietta Genfi, an academic advisor in the Undergraduate Advising Center was recently named as an Advising Excellence Award Winner at the Regional Conference of the National Academic Advising Association, an international organization that promotes and supports academic advising in institutions of higher education.

“This is a great honor for Henrietta and for Bentley,” explained Kevin Piskadlo, director of the Advising Center.  “It acknowledges what we have always known in our office–  Henrietta is one of the most dedicated and effective advisers not only here at Bentley but in the entire region.”  Junior Elise Hanaoka was not surprised that Henrietta was recognized with this prestigious award.  As an advisee and student worker in OAS, Elise has noticed that Henrietta’s approach to advising is quite popular with her classmates, “Students want to meet with her and they are willing to wait to make it happen…”