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CNN Money
The Romney kids’ $100 million trust fund
Mitt Romney’s five sons — Matt, Tagg, Craig, Ben and Josh — are sitting pretty with a trust fund worth $100 million. Getting there took investments that produced great growth, according to the Romney campaign. It also took smart tax strategies.
The Value and the Values of College
In our forthcoming book, Getting Learning Right: The Promise of Higher Education (MIT Press), we share the results of a study that followed 20 Northeastern University students every semester from their first year through graduation.
WSJ Wonders: Did Silicon Valley Bank Die Because One Black Person Was on Its Board?
For example, Black and Latinx people were “much more likely to receive high cost, high risk loans than white borrowers during the housing boom, even after controlling for credit scores, loan to value rations, subordinate liens, income, assets, expense ratios, neighborhood characteristics, and other relevant variables” in the lead to the 2008 housing crash, researchers […]
App developed at MIT, Northeastern looks to connect strangers via video chat
Now, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management and Northeastern University think they’ve found a way to generate the same kinds of accidental meetings in the virtual world.
New gun laws spark secret messaging, obstruction, recalls
Decades of research indicate firearms are the most lethal means of suicide nationwide and the best target for new policy, said Matt Miller, an epidemiologist at Northeastern University. “The hypothesis that if guns aren’t available someone will find an equally lethal way to take their life seems reasonable, but it falls flat when you look […]
How To Make Yourself Robot-Proof
Rather than thinking about education as something that’s finished at college or graduate school, we have entered a period of history in which learning has to be embraced as a lifelong process. Schools, in particular, need to emphasize early on how to help learners embrace how to think creatively throughout life. So argues Joseph E. […]
It’s Time to End College Majors as We Know Them
Joseph Aoun, president of Northeastern University, in his book Robot-Proof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (MIT Press, 2017), has suggested a complementary learning model that he calls “humanics.” It blends technical, social, and data skills, and, in the process, develops “higher-order mental skills” like critical thinking, systems thinking, entrepreneurship, and cultural agility, enabling people […]
Boston Herald
Booting up: Book prescribes a framework for survival in changing world
If you read one book this summer, let it be “Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future” by MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito and Northeastern University’s Jeff Howe, who coined the term crowdsourcing.
When Should Hacking Be Legal?
When Aaron Swartz, a prominent programmer and digital activist, was arrested in 2011, he was halfway through a fellowship at Harvard’s Center for Ethics. Police took him in after he entered a computer closet at MIT and downloaded enormous amounts of data from JSTOR’s extensive database of academic research. Swartz was charged with 13 felonies, […]
Not one, but two robot astronauts straight out of sci-fi are headed to Boston for training
If R5 looks like something out of a science fiction film, that’s by design. The robot — designed by NASA to one day supplement or even replace humans on space missions — is surely one of the coolest humanoid bots ever created. Now two of these six-foot tall robotic superheroes are coming to the Boston […]
Q&A: Antitrust economist John Kwoka says mergers mean higher prices
Mergers cost consumers money, even mergers in industries that are only moderately concentrated. That’s the conclusion of John Kwoka, an antitrust economist at Northeastern University, whose recent book “Mergers, Merger Control and Remedies” was published by MIT Press. In his book, Kwoka pulls together detailed studies of a long list of mergers into a single […]
Boston Magazine
Novo app will let you pay your bar tab from your phone
It’s a hangover nightmare that makes your heart drop into your (already sour) stomach: waking up from a night of debauchery at the local bar only to discover you’ve left your credit card, tab unpaid, behind. But a new app being created by two Northeastern University graduates, and a former MIT engineer, is looking to […]