Bert Spector Associate Professor of International Business and Strategy at the D’Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University

Mehrdad Sasani, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Northeastern University, and Joel Figueroa-Vallines, president of SEP Engineers, have said the available information about the building, along with video of the collapse, suggest something may have failed near the foundation of the building. They’ve also said that, rather than a single smoking gun, a […]

Dan Kennedy, a journalism professor at Northeastern University, called out major news outlets including the Times, Reuters, and the Boston Globe for running native ads in which Philip Morris, the tobacco giant, promotes research around smoke-free products. Most newspapers stopped taking cigarette ads a long time ago; Kennedy argues that they should now “take the next step” and refuse to […]

Shawn Bhimani is an assistant professor of supply chain management at Northeastern University. 

Laurie Kramer, a professor of applied psychology at Northeastern University in Boston, said it is difficult to untangle the reasons for these apparent links. “People seem to be healthier, happier and better adjusted — all of those things are related to having positive relationships with siblings, you know, and a lot of that comes from […]

For thousands of years, there’s been a common belief in Western culture about emotions — that they are hard-wired and reflexive, psychologist Lisa Feldman Barrett writes in the book How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain. “When something happens in the world … our emotions come on fast and uncontrollable, as if somebody […]

Lisa Feldman Barrett is a psychologist at Northeastern University. She says that over time, it becomes easier to feel this mood-boosting emotion. LISA FELDMAN BARRETT: It may sound hokey in the abstract, but I can guarantee you that if you practice it, then that practice is essentially helping to rewire your brain to be able […]

“They are going to propose the text that addresses some of the concerns and move the agenda forward, the initial meeting will be on what products should be covered,” said Brook Baker, a professor at Northeastern University School of Law.

Moya Bailey of Northeastern University coined the term “misogynoir” to describe the anti-Black misogyny that Black women face. 

“The world of online education has been maturing and growing rapidly,” said Sean Gallagher, the founder and executive director of Northeastern University’s Center for the Future of Higher Education and Talent Strategy. “There’s a lot of momentum for online education companies to be publicly traded and scaling and competing.”

If the pool deck area did collapse first, Northeastern University engineering professor Mehrdad Sasani explained what that could indicate for the investigation: “That collapse potentially could lead to two different scenarios. … One is the potential instability of the foundation of the building. Which given that the building was on some more than — the portion that collapsed — on some more than […]

Jack McDevitt, director of Northeastern University’s Institute on Race and Justice, said he recently heard from police chiefs of major cities throughout the country talking about substantial increases in violent crime, including shootings and homicides.