After decades of losing factory and assembly line jobs, manufacturing is poised for a promising future in Massachusetts, thanks to corporate investments in cutting-edge technologies and skilled workers who are churning out high-end products faster and cheaper than ever here, a new study says. Barry Bluestone, the lead researcher on the study and director of […]

Northeastern University’s College of Business Administration is getting a $60 million cash injection – and a new name. In honor of a university-record gift from alums Richard D’Amore and Alan McKim, the school will now be known as the D’Amore-McKim School of Business. It is the first college or school at Northeastern to be named […]

Northeastern University will rename its college of business after two alumni who are donating $60 million, the largest gift in the school’s history.

Two Massachusetts businessmen who dropped out of Northeastern University but later went back and earned degrees have donated $30-million each to the Boston institution’s business school, The Boston Globe writes.

Two Northeastern University alumni gave a $60 million gift, a gift that will put their names on the school’s College of Business Administration.

Two alumni of Northeastern University have given the business school $60m to invest in the undergraduate, graduate and executive programmes at the school, in particular to increase overseas programmes and teaching in entrepreneurship. The two are Richard D’Amore and Alan McKim, and the school will be renamed the D’Amore-McKim School of Busi­ness.  

One message sent to 60 million Facebook users on Election Day 2010 got at least 300,000 additional people to vote, according to a study published Wednesday in Nature magazine. The message showed the recipient which friends said they had already voted. The result was that the recipient was likely to also go out and vote. […]

Some employees want to work abroad because they love the idea of living the life of an expatriate. Others look at an overseas assignment as golden for their résumés. But working outside of the U.S. isn’t necessarily good for everyone’s pocketbook.

How do we decide whether to trust somebody? An unusual new study of college students’ interactions with a robot has shed light on why we intuitively trust some people and distrust others. While many people assume that behaviors like avoiding eye contact and fidgeting are signals that a person is being dishonest, scientists have found […]

Van Dam, the daughter of Vietnamese immigrants, found that working in a hospital environment at an early age boosted her confidence about pursuing a career in health care. As a nursing student at Northeastern University, I knew that it was difficult for new graduates to get hired without having some experience under their belt. I […]

Finally, the fall season offers the matchup sure to attract the biggest audience of the campaign: President Barack Obama going one-on-one with Republican Mitt Romney in three prime-time debates.

Jeffrey Lipshaw, an associate law professor at Suffolk University Law School, writes for a variety of legal blogs, including “The Legal Whiteboard” and “PrawfsBlawg.” He pens 50 blog posts per year, and they’ve been cited in law reviews more than a dozen times. “It’s a way of popularizing some very theoretical stuff that people might […]