Marketplace Meet Generation Z Gen Z, or the iGeneration as some have called it, refers to those born since roughly 1995. These are kids who have never known a world without the Internet and smartphones. And they’re just starting to hit college. Marketplace teamed up with Northeastern University to survey the latest crop of college-bound teenagers, aged 16 to […]
CBS Boston The millennial mindset: Making ends meet in Boston Alicia Modestino, associate professor at Northeastern University’s School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, says, “If you’re a college educated millennial, you’re doing pretty well.” “You are probably experiencing a higher level of college debt than previous generations,” she told WBZ NewsRadio 1030. “But if we were to look at, say, the income of a […]
KPCC Generation Z job-seekers turn to smartphones for help That “annoying” focus on the phone might worry some older parents or mentors about the fate of Gen Z in the workplace, but professor Brooke Foucault Welles of Northeastern University says it shouldn’t. “I understand why people can get frustrated that they’re always looking at their phones, but I don’t think that that’s a signal […]
Diverse Poll: Generation Z teens describe themselves entrepreneurial, self-directed While placing a high value on higher education, the generation of young Americans now in their late teens can also be described as highly entrepreneurial and self-directed, a new national poll has found. On Tuesday, Northeastern University officials unveiled wide-ranging survey results detailing the life aspirations and social views held by Generation Z, or 16- […]
Medium Generation Brand Student-led startups at Northeastern’s IDEA Venture Accelerator are given coaching, community, and funding. Max Kaye is the CEO, a position coordinated through Northeastern’s esteemed Co-op Program. He’s an undergraduate finance major, but sounds more like the startup-world people I encounter in mixers and meet-ups—passionate about young innovative companies, recognizes a huge need for change in […]
New generation: How family businesses fuel the Bay State economy … and beyond Ted Clark, director of Northeastern University’s Center for Family Business, suggests family businesses face many of the same challenges every business does. Those issues include a competitive marketplace, financial challenges and regulatory changes. At the same time, he said, family businesses often confront issues that are unique to them, such as navigating interpersonal relationships and […]
Boston.com Old school meet new school: How universities are adapting to build entrepreneurs Facebook started in a Harvard dorm room. iRobot got its start in MIT’s Artificial Intelligence Lab. Sand 9 was founded as a Boston University Photonics Center spinout. In Boston, business and higher education have long been intertwined. And now more than ever before, a new wave of innovation is coming directly from Boston-area institutions, fueled […]
Live Sicilia Catania From Boston to learn about family business An original and innovative course of study is traveling in Sicily, and will end on May 31 in Catania. Twenty-five students from Northeastern University in Boston, accompanied by prof. Justin Craig, were received yesterday afternoon in the auditorium of the Central Building by the Rector of the University of Catania prof. James Pignataro, by the President of […]
Downsizing doomsday? WITH BIDDING WARS heating up, construction booming, and mortgage rates still at historic lows, the housing market is finally on the rise — but a new problem might be on the horizon. And the baby boomers now pondering downsizing could be to blame. When empty nesters decide en masse to try and unload those sprawling homes in Newton […]