NBC News For Trump, Tubman on $20 bill illustrates broader American problem “The real rise of the phrase [political correctness] can be traced to the early 1990’s, when people started to use it to critique or just lament the policing of ideas that are out of step with the hegemony of liberalism in American society, post civil rights and post women’s liberation. In doing so they also […]
Pacific Standard Big data’s impending struggle to combat climate change As more than 130 nations gather today in New York to begin formally signing the Paris climate change agreement, the quest to limit greenhouse gas emissions and prevent catastrophic global warming enters an altogether new era of challenge: collecting accurate data on an unprecedented scale, to make sure countries live up to their national commitments. […]
Key witness in trial on Wynn land deal won’t take the stand But while defendants are entitled to due process and the right to present a defense, “that right, in my view, does not encompass putting demands on how the prosecution tries its case or which witnesses it chooses to call,” said Daniel S. Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern University.
CFOs with CPAs skimp in growth industries The study looked at how the two kinds of CFOs performed in high-growth industries, such as pharmaceuticals, electronics, and business services as well as low-growth industries, such as transportation, machinery and petroleum. The upshot was that companies with accounting CFOs tended to be more risk averse. CFOs with accounting backgrounds in high-growth industries on average […]
Boston Magazine Should the media report on health research? “Science is messy. It’s not really linear,” adds Gary Young, director of the Northeastern University Center for Health Policy and Healthcare Research. “We’re always trying to refine what we know, and hypotheses change in ways we didn’t think about in prior studies.”
The Hill House turns focus to opioid abuse Leo Beletsky, a drug policy expert and law professor at Northeastern University, said he noticed opioid use reaching a crisis point in 2006. “A response has been very sluggish,” Beletsky said. “The administration has been really playing it safe in a lot of ways. … It has been theoretically on the top of their agenda, […]
Boston Herald Experts: Boston proposal for lowering speed limit is road to nowhere A City Hall proposal to force a 20 mph speed limit on Boston drivers is unlikely to slow them down, traffic engineers say. “It would be a mistake to think that lower speed limits will instantly slow people down,” said Peter Furth, a professor of civil engineering at Northeastern University. The City Council held a […]
Could ‘actual innocence’ save the broken US justice system? “I think because of some of the professional incentives to get convictions and maintain convictions, and political incentives to be tough on crime, the justice role takes a back seat to the advocacy role,” says Northeastern University law professor Daniel Medwed, author of Prosecution Complex: America’s Race to Convict and Its Impact on the Innocent. […]
Smithsonian Magazine The future of cars is already here It’s natural to think of innovation as happening in some instantaneous transformative way, but the transition to our own future will likelier involve a great mix of evolving technologies—a transportation landscape populated with smart cars, autonomous cars and, muses Fernando Suarez, a professor at Northeastern University’s School of Business, “maybe flying cars for some longer […]
As vinyl revives, three friends make a U-Turn A business incubator program at Northeastern gave them $2,500 in seed money, enough to build their first prototype. This earned them the chance to seek investors at the crowdfunding website Kickstarter. The three entrepreneurs set a goal of $60,000, but $234,000 rolled in. “That’s when we knew it was an idea that had legs,” Hertig […]
Boston Herald Largest insurer pulls plug on states But Wendy Parnet, director of Health Policy and Law at Northeastern University, said the UnitedHealth move does not necessarily mean trouble for the market. “It’s certainly important for the success of the market for there to be competition, and that takes multiple insurers,” Parnet said. “But alone, I don’t think it necessarily says anything.” She […]
Boston Herald Northeastern University-led center to build tiny things A new effort to turn tiny objects into an economic development initiative with big impact has kicked off, centering on making commercial products with a new nanomanufacturing technique. “We look at it as a way to democratize manufacturing, it’s a new manufacturing paradigm shift,” said Ahmed Busnaina, a Northeastern University professor who will lead the […]