Sydney Arbelbide graduated from Northeastern University last year with a degree in systems engineering and a job offer in Silicon Valley from Google Inc. But she turned down the Internet search giant for a small tech firm in Boston.

The term “gamification” can be one of the most misunderstood marketing and engagement strategies employed today. Many marketers think gamification literally means creating a game to engage with customers or employees. And,  yes, it can mean that.

Once again there is talk of a major financial crisis in Europe. Many observers expect that Europe will muddle through and push the problem further down the road, as it has for the past two years. But this time really could be different.

Bill Weld and I didn’t agree on much, but he did something in his first term as Massachusetts governor that should be required reading for anybody involved in the current debate over how to control health costs in the Commonwealth.

I saw this flyer recently on my gym’s bulletin board. The loneliness and loss of identity it describes are surely shared by a great many people who have to leave sports, famous or not, but what comes to mind is the suicide of Junior Seau, the 43-year-old former NFL player who shot himself in the chest […]

NBC Bay Area’s Brent Cannon speaks with Stephen Flynn, Co-founder of the Research Institute for Homeland Security at Northeastern University, about the foiled airplane bomb plot.

Yes, you read right. Recent research does actually offer a positive spin to this age-old practice — one that goes beyond the rumours and tall tales.

President Obama made history yesterday by becoming the first-ever sitting president to declare his support for same-sex marriage.

This article explores the links between social media and public space within the #Occupy Everywhere movements. Whereas listservs and websites helped give rise to a widespread logic of networking within the movements for global justice of the 1990s–2000s, I argue that social media have contributed to an emerging logic of aggregation in the more recent […]

Factory jobs in Massachusetts, once confined to a museum display, are not only alive and well, but quite profitable for the workers holding them.

Following his successful use of Twitter in the 2008 US presidential election campaign, Barack Obama is seen by many political pundits as the king of social media. But according to a new analysis of the Twitterverse, US conservatives have fought back and may now possess an online network that is better organised to spread their […]

Constantinos Mavroidis and Mark Sivak supervise Northeastern students and assign them with one “very broad” task every fall semester. This past year, it was to create a medical device that could be used to monitor users’ activities at home, that could also be interfaceable with a smartphone. Little did they know, their students would create […]