As a lawyer working with small business owners, Rashmi Dyal-Chand has a big concern -€” all too often, she doesn’€™t see them until it’s too late.

Right now, armies of marketers, pollsters and social scientists are trying to figure out what Americans are thinking about – issues like global warming or Lady Gaga’s latest outfit. Surveys are only so good: It’s hard to get a big enough sample to be sure of the results. That’s particularly vexing for social scientists who […]

Twitter confirms it: People tend to wake up in a good mood and are happiest on weekends.

More than 900 Massachusetts homeowners lost their properties to foreclosure in August, the highest monthly total this year and another sign that lenders are revving up their efforts to take back properties from people who aren’t making mortgage payments.

Nahant: Tidepool and geology walks, marine research exhibits, touch tanks, tours, children’s activities, and a beach cleanup are part of the Northeastern Marine Science Center Open House. All ages are welcome. The center is ADA accessible. Saturday, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Northeastern University Marine Science Center, 430 Nahant Rd. Free. 781-581-7370, www.northeastern.edu/marinescience.

When a foreign company acquires a domestic firm, it often leads to outcries of indignation, nostalgia (€œanother of our once great companies in foreign hands€), and calls for legislation to prevent any more foreign poaching. Politicians and union leaders proclaim that the foreign owners may not be dedicated to keep up investment in the subsidiary, […]

As commerce secretary under Bill Clinton, William Daley worked with U.S. pharmaceutical giants to curb the use of cheaper generic drugs abroad. As a board member for Abbott Laboratories, he had a front-row seat on a brutal clash between a major drug company and a developing nation over access to life-saving medication. And as White […]

Apparently some things don’t improve with age.

Local economists blasted President Obama’s $447 billion jobs bill yesterday, saying it would cost taxpayers $200,000 per job and not do enough to boost employment.

The scale of job losses among men in Rhode Island over the last four years has created depression-level conditions in the state, a leading labor economist said Tuesday.

Six Democratic and six Republican senators, are at work at a task that is possibly the most challenging of their political careers: devise a way to cut at least $1.2 trillion from the federal deficit in a manner both political parties can live with.

Dozens of Boston Public Schools coaches received advanced concussion training at Northeastern University yesterday, designed to help reduce the risk of head trauma-related injuries in student athletes and prevent longer-term effects such as degenerative brain disease.