Hugh Courtney

Promising Alzheimer’s drug provides second chance for Biogen, and a debated theory about the disease

Hugh Courtney, 59, a Concord resident who was part of the lecanemab study, was happy to hear about the positive results. Courtney is an accomplished economist and former dean of the D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University, where he continued to teach until retiring in 2021 when symptoms of the disease made working too […]

Can Biogen’s backup plan for Alzheimer’s succeed?

Alzheimer’s runs in Courtney’s family, so he always knew there was a chance of getting the disease. As a former professor and dean of the D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University, he understands the value of research.

Northeastern’s entrepreneurship expo shows signs of a ‘healthy venture accelerator”

Whether delivering a monthly themed box of STEM activities straight to your door or creating a solar powered cell phone and tablet charging station, the startups springing out of Northeastern’s venture accelerator IDEA are nothing if not diverse. The word “diverse” continued cropping up at the Northeastern Entrepreneurship Expo held Wednesday evening in the school’s […]

Why You Should Crowd-Source Your Toughest Investment Decisions

Only three or four out of every ten movies made in America breaks even or earns a profit. Yet the decision to green-light a project is usually based solely on “expert opinions” — in other words, executives’ intuition supplemented by standard regression analysis. There’s got to be a better way. We think we’ve found one. In […]

Fast Company: Northeastern Offers The Nation’s Only Student-Run Venture Accelerator, IDEA

College is crazy expensive–and it’s getting more expensive all the time. Entrepreneurs like Peter Thiel are fond of saying it’s not worth it. But 23-year-old Chris Wolfel, who is getting his bachelor’s from Northeastern University this spring, found college to be not only a good investment, but the perfect launching pad for his entrepreneurial dreams. For the last […]

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Bloomberg Businessweek: At Northeastern, New Ventures Get a Student Assist

The university is in its fourth year of hosting Idea, a student-led venture accelerator that provides resources to students and alumni looking to found startups. In 2009 the school was seeking new ways to boost entrepreneurial activity on campus when six seniors proposed the concept for Idea. The group received funding from the university and […]