According to a recent study by Northeastern University, the connected speakers kicked into action many times based on those mistakes. The university found that words that rhymed with “k” and sound like Alexa, like “exclamation,” would awake the speaker and start recording. 

“Sometimes managers are reluctant because they’re worried about being viewed as micromanaging,” says Barbara Larson, executive professor of management at Northeastern University’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business. Indeed, the same strategy that is overkill in an office is essential remotely.

Housing supply has almost always lagged demand in the Boston area, said Alicia Sasser Modestino, professor of public policy at Northeastern University and lead author of the 2019 Greater Boston Housing Report Card.

Samuel Scarpino, a mathematical biologist and assistant professor at Northeastern University’s Network Science Institute, is strongly critical of opinions that are too steeped in credentialism

Ms. Brothers is an associate professor at Northeastern University and the author of “Michelangelo, Drawing, and the Invention of Architecture” (Yale).

Based on the state’s claims data and other factors, the jobless rate in Massachusetts is probably about 11 to 11.5 percent, said Alan Clayton-Matthews, an economics professor at Northeastern University. It was 2.8 percent in February.

The Gannett-owned Medford Transcript, for example, no longer has a dedicated staffer, said Dan Kennedy, a Northeastern University journalism professor who lives in that city.

Tom Barnes of Northeastern University’s Master of Science in Respiratory Care Leadership Program tells NPR’s Steve Inskeep that operating a ventilator takes skill and a lot of training.

Barbara Larson, an executive professor of management at Northeastern University, is one of the world’s premier scholars on remote management. 

Wendy Parmet, a Northeastern University health policy expert, said the testing problems made tracking the virus challenging: “You need testing to make sure you quickly identify new outbreaks and trace contacts. Put out the small sparks before they become another conflagration.” 

Sam Scarpino, a professor of network science who heads up Northeastern University’s Emergent Epidemics Lab, models coronavirus outbreaks around the world to better inform the game plan for Massachusetts.