“There’s just a giant gap there,” said Sean Gallagher, executive director of the Center for the Future of Higher Education and Talent Strategy at Northeastern University. Fewer graduates are emerging from the pipeline than are needed, he said. “I think that’s why the tech sector has been the place where these alternative models are being […]

Northeastern University economist John Kwoka documents the drop-off in U.S. merger enforcement.

The Boston Business Journal interviewed Murray Forman, professor at Northeastern University’s College of Arts, Media and Design, about his life work and field of study in hip-hop culture.

“A single individual or two can still create a lot of damage,” said Max Abrahms, a professor at Northeastern University who studies terrorism. “But they’re not able to wage sustained terrorist campaigns.”

Young children are forced to cower behind locked doors while an adult in black shouts threats and shoots blanks in the hallways. Northeastern professor James Alan Fox argues that this is not helping.

“Going from six to five movie studios will be a good test to see if the Justice Department’s view of horizontal mergers changes,” said John Kwoka, antitrust expert and professor of economics at Northeastern University. “The agency has taken a somewhat more vigorous approach to horizontal mergers in past years. How that portends for the […]

More broadly, how well the programs work is still an open question. “My take is that PDMPs in and of themselves have not proved their value in curbing the [overdose] crisis,” said Leo Beletsky, a Northeastern University law professor specializing in drug policy. While such real-time alerts from datasets are a “no brainer and long […]

Dan Kennedy, associate professor of journalism at Northeastern University, said the Herald’s print circulation loss is part of a larger pattern newspapers are dealing with across the country, namely weak print circulation numbers and declining print advertising revenue. And, Kennedy said, the paper’s primary distribution method — via newsstand or retail store — isn’t exactly […]

Reviews are crucial to what retailers call “conversion,” turning browsers into buyers. A study published last year by researchers at Northeastern University found that items for sale on a website that included reviews were up to 270% more likely to entice browsers to buy than items that did not have reviews.