“While the pandemic has certainly hurt the majority of small businesses, it has also pushed many to be more innovative by looking for new revenue streams and ways to reach customers,” said Kimberly A. Eddleston, a professor of entrepreneurship and innovation at Northeastern University.

 A February 2020 study of more than 400 tech workers by researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Northeastern University found that while remote and nonremote workers won roughly the same number of promotions, the salaries of remote workers grew more slowly.

“A lot of them have been relying on the guidance and the mandates to take the onus off of them,” said Wendy Parmet, a professor at Northeastern University. “Don’t blame me, blame the governor. Don’t blame me, blame the CDC. Now you have to blame them.”

“It was the first time the pro-Israel lobby started to splinter,” said Dov Waxman, a political science professor at Northeastern University and author of “Trouble in the Tribe: The American Jewish Conflict Over Israel.”

About 75 percent of the users who’d transmitted false stories were conservatives, according to an analysis by the researchers, in keeping with a 2019 Northeastern University study that found conservatives are more likely than liberals to share fake news online.

Watching the uprising after Floyd’s death crystallized the parallels with the civil rights movement, said Margaret Burnham, a professor of law and Northeastern University’s Civil Rights and Restorative Project director. “What Jimmie Lee Jackson’s death did was it galvanized and catapulted an already organized national community around civil rights to come out and say no […]

In the long term, this feedback cycle can be very damaging to one’s mental health, warns Rachel Rodgers, a psychology professor at Northeastern University who’s studying the harms associated with digitally altered photos. “If you’re constantly being told that your outward appearance is a reflection of your inner self-worth, then when you’re posting something to […]

Brown’s actions did not deserve to be met with deadly force, said Stephanie Hartung, a Northeastern University law professor with an expertise on state and federal criminal procedure. She emphasized that Brown was not charged with a violent crime.

Sean Gallagher, an executive professor of education policy at Northeastern University and founder of Northeastern’s Center for the Future of Higher Education and Talent Strategy, agrees: “This looks to be a catalytic moment. Like what’s happened with the rapid digitization of so many other areas of our daily lives, we’ve probably gained in a few […]

“Emotions don’t just ‘happen’ to you,” said Lisa Feldman Barrett, a distinguished professor of psychology at Northeastern University and chief science officer for the Center for Law, Brain & Behavior at Harvard University. “They are made by you. Or more specifically, they’re made by your brain while it’s in constant conversation with your body and […]

“Reform can’t just be a small phrase in a large symphony — reform is the symphony,” said Jack Greene, a professor emeritus of criminology at Northeastern University. “And it’s going to require a lot of input from a lot of stakeholders. It’s not something you pull off the shelf and say, ‘Here we go.’ ”

“We don’t even agree on what ground truth is,” said David DeSteno, a professor of psychology at Northeastern University in Boston, who said that the lack of shared information sources in partisan politics makes building trust particularly difficult. Without a common understanding of the risk of getting seriously sick from the virus, or any side […]