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Kat Webber

Not Your Usual Business

April 14, 2011 Marketplace

By Kat Webber As business students, it is important to be well rounded in all things, not just current events and newspapers, or finance and marketing. Striving to be competitive in tangible ways can be a challenge, but by simply reading a few books, you could create an advantage over your fellow applicants. A book [...]

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Not Your Usual Business

April 7, 2011 Marketplace

By Kat Webber You can spend four years at Bentley and still not know much about it. Here is an insider’s guide to some of the lesser known areas of expertise on campus. These are places it would be helpful to know about. The library is one of the most underutilized resources on campus. Students [...]

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Not Your Usual Business

March 24, 2011 Marketplace

By Kat Webber It’s getting down to the wire for job and internship applications and selections, and for those of us who are still looking, it is getting to be a bit stressful. The good news is that the job market seems to be improving, so more opportunities will arise for jobs and paid internships. [...]

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Not Your Usual Business

March 10, 2011 Marketplace

By Kat Webber If you are dealing with a situation in a group, here is some more advice. If the case is that someone is not doing their work, and the group agrees, approach that person individually. Be sure to remain calm and explain why their behavior is hurting the group and the project. Use [...]

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Not Your Usual Business

March 3, 2011 Marketplace

By Kat Webber Group work is a way of life at Bentley University, which isn’t a problem if you have a workable group. However, that is not always the case when placed into a group of random peers. When it comes to group conflict, not many of us know how to deal with it effectively. [...]

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Not Your Usual Business

February 24, 2011 Marketplace

Written By: Kat Webber So what does it mean to be “green,” anyhow? What impact is all of this talk going to have on you as an employee? What about as a consumer? Is it just about new forms of power, or conserving what we have left? Bentley has become increasingly concerned with its impact [...]

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Not Your Usual Business

February 17, 2011 Marketplace

Written By: Kat Webber Picture this: You’re standing in an elevator and in steps the CEO of a company you’ve been interested in for years. You’ve gotten up the nerve to introduce yourself and shake their hand, but now what are you going to say? This is when having a personal “elevator pitch” comes in [...]

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Not Your Usual Business

February 10, 2011 Campus Life

Written By: Kat Webber In light of events at Bentley in the past, such as the “Reply All” incident, and at the behest of many of the professors, it has come time to properly identify, and hopefully remedy, some issues with the way Bentley students e-mail. First and foremost is the language that we students [...]

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Not Your Usual Business

February 3, 2011 Marketplace

Written By: Kat Webber Job applications are stressful, but sometimes it’s unnecessary to panic so much over them. At Bentley, students are taught that if we have an Accountancy major we’re supposed to work for the Big Four, or if we have a Finance major we’re supposed to work for a company like Morgan Stanley [...]

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Notes from Abroad – Ireland

March 18, 2010 Notes from Abroad

Question: Describe an experience in which you overcame a challenge. What did you learn from the experience? Written by: Kat Webber Arriving in Dublin Airport at 5:30 a.m. on a Sunday, my three companions and I were determined to make our way to the hostel we would be staying in for the first week of [...]

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The Vampire Archives provides stories for blood-sucking enthusiasts

November 19, 2009 Features

Written by: Kat Webber Everyone, it seems, is getting into the vampire craze. What Bram Stokerstarted hundreds of years ago with his timeless story Dracula, the world is still enjoying today. There seems to be no end to this amazing genreof books, movies, series, and even action figures. So, with all the hype in the [...]

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Jeff Dunham: From on stage success to television debut

November 5, 2009 Features

Written by: Kat Webber By now, most of the country and even a large portion of the world have heard about Jeff Dunham and his band of crazy misfit puppets. There have been live shows across the United States, TV specials, and now the act is even travelling to Europe and Australia. Jeff has been [...]

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