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How To Help Skills-Based Practices Stick Within America’s Businesses

However, many aspects of the HR tech stack were not built with skills-based practices in mind. Recent research from Northeastern University found that most HR information systems are unable to meaningfully collect, structure, and use skills data.
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Why Walmart, Walgreens, CVS retail health clinic experiment is struggling

But the business experience in the retail health clinic space has largely disappointed. That’s not a huge surprise to Timothy Hoff, professor of management health-care systems at Northeastern University. 
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32 Boston high schoolers honored at annual valedictorian luncheon

Some of the students plan to become cardiac surgeons, social workers, and software engineers. They will study such fields in the fall, with 12 of the 32 committed to attend Northeastern University, several with full scholarships.
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‘I’m not sure this helps us much’: European countries are recognizing an official Palestinian state

Mai’a Cross, a professor of political science at Boston’s Northeastern University, said the recent European recognitions are essentially saying they recognize the “aspirations” of a future Palestinian state.
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Ticketmaster Lawsuit Slows Live Nation Stock As Sales Expectations Dip

Swift keeps 105% of her average Era’s Tour ticket price of $456 because concert promoters are so happy to have their venues filled by her fans, according to my April 2023 interview with Northeastern University Professor David Herlihy.
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The Battle to Ban Child Marriage in America

There are many risks for individuals who enter into marriage before they turn 18. These children are often left with economic, physical, emotional, and legal vulnerabilities, Hayat Bearat, interim director of the Domestic Violence Institute at Northeastern University, told Newsweek.
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Does String Theory Actually Describe the World? AI May Be Able to Tell

Impressed by the ability of machines to best humans at board games, Fabian Ruehle, a physicist at Northeastern University, wondered if similar algorithms could calculate shapes of 6D manifolds in string.
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Failed Graceland sale by a mystery entity highlights attempts to take assets of older or dead people

Who would target it with a scheme that “fell apart with the first email and phone call, or internet search,” and what holes in the legal system let it got closer to the auction block than it should have, should be the focuses of the attorney general, said Nikos Passas, a Northeastern University criminology and […]
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Mass. doctor on new study linking cognitive decline to ‘ultraprocessed foods’

A new study is once again raising questions about ultra processed foods and its link to a higher risk of cognitive decline and stroke.
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Women in AI: Sarah Myers West says we should ask, ‘Why build AI at all?’

Sarah Myers West is managing director at the AI Now Institute, an American research institute studying the social implications of AI and policy research that addresses the concentration of power in the tech industry. She is a visiting research scientist at Northeastern University, as well as a research contributor at Cornell’s Citizens and Technology Lab.
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A teacher’s hack for getting kids excited for math went viral. Experts explain why it works

Charles Hillman, PhD, a professor of psychology at Northeastern University with expertise in neurocognitive kinesiology, agrees: “I think the idea that they get kids moving in the middle of the class day, there’s no way it’s not beneficial.”  
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People with commonly autocorrected names call for tech firms to fix problem

Rashmi Dyal-Chand, a professor at Northeastern University in the US whose name is sometimes corrected to Sashimi, is supporting the latest campaign and said: “For people with names like mine, autocorrect is not convenient and helpful. It is unhelpful. And yes – it is harmful.”