Writing in the Harvard Business Review and theWashington Post, two U.S. business professors, Vijay Govindarajan from Dartmouth and Ravi Ramammurti from Northeastern University tell the story of how Indian hospitals deliver better care for much less. The two professors uncovered nine private hospitals in India that provide quality care at a fraction of U.S. prices. For example, […]

“Writing in the Harvard Business Review and the Washington Post, two U.S. business professors, Vijay Govindarajan from Dartmouth and Ravi Ramammurti from Northeastern University tell the story of how Indian hospitals deliver better care for much less,” writes John Mandrola in The Atlantic. “The two professors uncovered nine private hospitals in India that provide quality care at a fraction of U.S. […]

We now know a lot about how the NSA spies on electronic communication. Yesterday, the New York Times reported that the NSA is even spying on the online role-playing game World of Warcraft, according to documents from Edward Snowden. But deep electronic surveillance isn’t limited to the nation’s top digital spy agency. This week, Massachusetts […]

Students and colleagues of Northeastern University journalism professor Nicholas Daniloff are used to his hands-on style of teaching – whether it involves dressing up as philosopher Immanuel Kant for a lesson on mass media in a democratic society, or conducting a mock press conference in his ethics class. A former foreign correspondent for United Press […]

Reporting on the release of the monthly jobs numbers last Friday, we spoke with Northeastern University political economist Barry Bluestoneabout what he called generally good news: 200,000 people back to work and the unemployment rate down to 7 percent. But for those people “out of the economy,” in Bluestone’s words, or the long-term unemployed, of whom there are consistently about […]

Written by former MA Public Health Commissioner John Auerbach, an ardent advocate for the creation of the Trust, it describes the broad coalition of folks who came together starting in 2011 to push for the Trust’s creation, and describes the political process involved in setting it up. In connection with the report’s release, RWJF also […]

Imagine you lost your job when the economy was in free fall, and six months later it was still in free fall. You sent out resumés every day, and every day you heard nothing back from companies too scared to hire. Then things finally started to look better. Companies finally started to think about hiring […]

Northeastern University Plans $227M Science, Engineering Research Center BOSTON – Northeastern University hopes to break ground next month on a $225 million science and engineering research building, joining a growing list of Boston-area colleges and universities making major investments in those fields, according to The Boston Globe. NU President Joseph E. Aoun said the facility will […]

The median rent in Massachusetts has climbed to $1,000 a month, according to the study. Hawaii had the highest median rent, $1,300, followed by Washington, D.C., at just below $1,200. And while median rents nationally have risen 7 percent to $861 a month in 2012 from $802 in 2000, median renters’ incomes have fallen from […]

When Age Matters Northeastern University computer science professor Rupal Patel has discovered a niche in which age really does make a difference, though. If you have to rely on a computerized voice to speak, there aren’t many options. The automated voice of Stephen Hawking doesn’t quite match a teenage girl’s. Patel has found a way […]

By Dennis Shaughnessy Each year for the past six summers, forty undergraduate students studying global social enterprise at Northeastern University have had the privilege of privately meeting with Nelson Mandela’s close friend and fellow Robben Island prisoner, Dr. Ahmed Kathrada. This past year, students also met with the retired Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a colleague and confidant of […]

Jack Levin, author of the 2008 book, “Serial Killers and Sadistic Murders — Up Close and Personal,” said he found that more than half of serial killers he studied had abused animals, many of them maximizing the suffering of dogs and cats. He did a study comparing 150 animal abusers to those who never abused […]