In terms of how investors approach portfolios, forms that analyze behavioral biases can help people make smart decisions before they trip themselves up, says Paul Bolster, a finance professor at Northeastern University’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business. “Simple asset allocation models take the form of a questionnaire,” Bolster says. “Responses are weighted and aggregated into a […]

But there are limits to what a president can do to reduce crime. Unlike in some countries, most policing in the United States is done by agencies controlled by local governments, not the federal government. “Federal law enforcement handles less than 10 percent of crime,” said Jack McDevitt, director of the Northeastern University Institute on […]

“It seems to me a mistake to limit yourself to only those who can afford to live here or chose to live here,” Northeastern University economist Barry Bluestone told The Boston Globe. “It’s a little parochial to think we have to maintain our own population here and if you are not a Bostonian, you can’t […]

Thanks Bernie! Hillary Clinton’s tilt at the US presidency is poised to turn a deeper shade of green after pressure from her former rival. Democrats gathering at their national convention in Philadelphia on Monday are set to approve a platform that calls climate change “the defining challenge of our time”. A non-binding road map for […]

There is no one in politics better at playing a bad hand than Ted Cruz. Even before we learned that Donald Trump had given a deeply disturbing interview to the New York Times in which he walked away from our NATO commitments, I thought getting booed off the stage was likely to prove a good […]

“Unfortunately, we cannot go back in time to see what environmental factors, including diet, were responsible for the evolution of social tendencies,” says Rebeca Rosengaus at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. “So the manipulations performed by the authors are only a first step to understand the dynamics between environmental stress and sociality.” Although the evolution of any trait is […]

Traditionally, broadcast media honors requests not to be filmed, like when videographers record B-roll footage of a day at the beach, says Dan Kennedy, a journalism professor at Northeastern University who runs the blog MediaNation (no relation to ABC’s Kennedy). But when there’s a small camera mounted to a building, how does someone request they not […]

“You need to take six months of crime data, not just with a grain of salt but the entire shaker,” said James Alan Fox, the interim director of the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northeastern University. “I can point to situations where crime patterns seen for the first six months are reversed once the […]

Papadopoulos, who now has a teaching position at Northeastern University in Boston, is trying to get comfortable with academia once again. He’s establishing collaborations, and testing out long-dormant ideas about why some bicycles wobble at high speed7. He believes he can eliminate speed wobble with a damper to soak up vibrations in the seat post. […]

We know that diverse teams are more creative and productive than homogenous teams, but how do you get individuals who aren’t alike working together smoothly? As I’ve seen from teaching over 960 recruits as a basic-training company commander in the U.S. Army, people from various backgrounds struggle to discover shared interests during the early stages […]