The challenge is figuring out what parts of a company need to be separated. John Kwoka, an economics professor at Northeastern University who recently served as an adviser to FTC chair Lina Khan, says the key is identifying businesses in which ownership by Google are “distorting its incentives.” 

“It’s easy for the government to win a case and lose the war,” said Northeastern University economics professor John Kwoka, a former adviser to Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan. “I don’t underestimate the difficulties of this.”

Dan Kennedy, a professor of journalism at Northeastern University and the author of the Media Nation blog, called the paper’s error “a really bad mistake.” “That said, the editor’s note was certainly a full and complete apology for what had gone wrong, and I’m glad they did it,” he added.

There’s even a mathematical way to express the value of the kind of insight that led to Bezos’s early career switch. Physicist Albert-László Barabási, a Northeastern University-based expert on network theory, examined the careers of scientists and came up with this formula for success: S = Qr.

NORC’s study found that 69 percent were people of color. According to a separate study by researchers at Northeastern and Harvard Universities, 20 percent of new gun buyers between 2019 and 2021 were Black and 20 percent were Hispanic.

Analía Albuja, a psychology professor at Northeastern University who studies multiracial identities, is worried about the implication of Trump’s “turn Black” comments. Recent history shows that Trump’s stump speech messaging carries weight. 

“The character of the defendant’s use is an important factor, and in this case the use appears to be comment and criticism—and perhaps satire—which are core functions that fair use aspires to protect,” says Northeastern University law professor Alexandra J. Roberts.

“The summer job is back,” said Alicia Sasser Modestino, an associate professor of economics who studies youth development at Northeastern University. “I remember being completely dead wrong in summer of 2021 when I said, ‘Teenagers: just run out, grab these jobs, because this is not going to last.’”

Amy Morin is a psychotherapist, clinical social worker and instructor at Northeastern University. She is the author of ”13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do″ and ”13 Things Mentally Strong Couples Don’t Do.” 

“If you take somebody’s time, you never get it back,” said Peter Furth, a civil and environmental engineer at Northeastern University. “But if you take somebody’s money, the money doesn’t just disappear down a black hole. You can now do something useful for society with it.”

David Tse, an engineer, is CEO of Chargely, the developer of a mobile app for electric vehicle drivers that he co-founded in March 2023. Mainebiz sat down with Tse at Northeastern University’s Roux Institute in Portland, where he will soon wrap up his Founder Residency year.

“Harris recognizes that it’s a winning issue,” said Dan Urman, a law and politics professor at Northeastern University. Harris has expressed an openness to changes to the court in the past, in contrast to Biden, who has been more careful on the issue.