Job title aside, which can sound “new-agey” and be off-putting, the job itself is about understanding the role of human behavior and its impact on business, said Nada Sanders, a distinguished professor of supply chain management at Northeastern University in Boston.

This week’s guests were: speaking from Kyrgyzstan, Gulnura Toralieva, a political analyst who was also a candidate for the Bir Bol party in the October elections; also from Kyrgyzstan, Kasiet Ysmanova, communications manager at the Bishkek-based social research group Central Asia Barometer; Bakyt Beshimov, a former deputy in Kyrgyzstan’s parliament and also a Kyrgyz ex-ambassador to […]

But that information “doesn’t really help us,” said Samuel Scarpino, a Northeastern University epidemiologist. We know that people who live together are likely to spread the disease to one another, he explained, but the first household member to be infected had to get COVID-19 somewhere else, whether at work, running errands, or out and about […]

Nada Sanders, a supply chain expert at Northeastern University’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business, said capacity issues may persist well beyond the holidays — and perhaps even beyond the pandemic — if the sharp uptick in e-commerce sticks. She called on Congress to provide more funding to the USPS so it can keep up with demand […]

Prymus Insurance in Texas asked Deborah Ramirez, a law professor and police-accountability expert at Northeastern University’s law school in Massachusetts, to analyze how much personal liability insurance should cost for cops in Colorado. Her law students are building a database of payouts for police cases based on records from the state’s five biggest cities.

Leo Beletsky, a professor and faculty director of Health in Justice Action Lab at Northeastern University School of Law, argues that a PBC could address “structural issues in the pharmaceutical market” by addressing the high cost of addiction and overdose medications like Naloxone, the overdose antidote, and buprenorphine and methadone — both used to treat […]

Using video and considering context is “absolutely a step forward” for the field, says Lisa Feldman Barrett, a professor and psychologist at Northeastern University, who wrote an accompanying commentary on the study. “The question that they’re asking strikes right at the heart of the nature of emotion,” she remarks, but there’s a risk that such […]

“The Biden plan would make sure the power of the pardon was used more consistently and more justly,” says Daniel J. Urman, who teaches constitutional law at Northeastern University. “And the board could have formerly incarcerated people on it. That would increase its use for mercy. And hopefully decrease its use for cronyism.”

Alessandro Vespignani, a computational epidemiologist at Northeastern University in Boston, who analysed the effects of travel restrictions on the spread of the virus, will also be spending Christmas at home with his immediate family. 

If stress makes you snap, your first move is to apologize, followed with something along the lines of, “That was not a productive response,” says Laura Dudley, associate clinical professor of applied psychology at Northeastern University. 

But a new study jointly published by Google, Apple, Stanford University, OpenAI, the University of California, Berkeley, and Northeastern University demonstrates the pitfall of this training approach

GBH Morning Edition host Joe Mathieu spoke with Northeastern University law professor and GBH News legal analyst Daniel Medwed about that case from Texas and why it was ultimately struck down by the Supreme Court.