Employees who are not enthusiastic about their work can be a big problem for managers. These employees are not only less productive, but their lack of motivation for tasks can also affect the morale of the rest of the team, say human resources experts. Here are some tips for managers to keep their employees motivated […]

At his news conference on Friday, President Obama said of Edward J. Snowden, “I don’t think Mr. Snowden was a patriot.” The president claims that Mr. Snowden’s actions were unnecessary and harmful and contrasts Mr. Snowden with patriotic people who protest surveillance through legal means. But what makes a person patriotic? In a book published […]

On Sunday’s episode of Melissa Harris Perry, a panel of mothers joined the show to talk about their experiences with parenting across racial lines. As difficult as it is to raise children in America and to ensure that they have access to what they need to grow into healthy, successful adults, when your child is […]

“Evolution didn’t shape us to be saints, it shaped us to be adaptable,” says David DeSteno, a psychology professor at Northeastern University. Any time we humans think we can get away with something, he says, the temptation to deceive increases. In “cheating experiments” conducted in 2007-08, DeSteno and collaborator Piercarlo Valdesolo found that 90 percent […]

POSTGRAD EDUCATION is becoming more specific than ever in two ways. First, it’s increasingly specialized and geared toward the needs of industry. “A lot of what’s driving the growth in master’s programs is new fields that are emerging,” says Sean Gallagher, who works in enrollment and student affairs at Northeastern University. He cites areas like […]

People have more empathy for puppies, full grown dogs and human children who are battered than they do for battered adult humans, U.S. researchers say. Study co-authors Jack Levin and Arnold Arluke, professors at Northeastern University, questioned 240 men and women, most of whom were white and ages 18-25, at a large northeastern university. Participants […]

People have more empathy for battered puppies and full grown dogs than they do for some humans — adults, but not children, finds new research to be presented at the 108th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. “Contrary to popular thinking, we are not necessarily more disturbed by animal rather than human suffering,” said […]

There have been claims recently that alleged serious crimes occur frequently on cruise ships and that many of those crimes go unreported. Nothing could be further from the truth. For an industry that enjoys a high repeat customer rate and with some of the largest cruise lines catering to families, any allegation of a serious crime is […]

“There weren’t a lot of Asians in Iowa in the ’60s and ’70s but happily, one of the most popular shows at the time was ‘Kung Fu,’” Kim told graduates of Northeastern University in Boston this year. “The bully kids left us alone, because they thought all Asians knew kung fu.” During his studies, he was torn […]

An unconventional health office that has no walls was set up in the Main South neighborhood of Murray Avenue earlier this week. Project Health Moves, a program of Health Innovations, which uses Northeastern University in Boston’s Health In Motion Van, camped out on the street all day Tuesday The program brought 11 Northeastern nursing students, […]

Born in a Northeastern University conference room in 2012, Stackdriver snagged $5 million in Series A venture funding a year ago from Bain Capital and others, and now with 17 employees (and 3 interns) operates out of a for-real office in Boston’s Downtown Crossing. With many employees recruited out of Northeastern, Boston College and Boston University, there’s […]

The arrest and conviction rates for human trafficking aren’t much better. The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) states, “Due to the underground nature of trafficking, the number of victims is unknown.” In a 2012 report to the NIJ on Identifying Challenges to Improve the Investigation and Prosecution of State and Local Trafficking Cases, Northeastern University and Urban Institute […]