Many a dissertation has been written on the meaning and impact of “cool” over the years. And to learn more about what, if any, role this powerfully ambiguous term has in the realm of credit cards, we posed the following questions to a panel of professors.

Preliminary findings from Boston’s study of police-worn body cameras point to a small benefit in reducing citizen complaints filed against officers, but no impact on police use of force against civilians. The mixed results of the study carried out by researchers at Northeastern University could prompt a fresh round of debate between advocates for body cameras […]

Nicole Boyson, a professor at the D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University, said a sale could be coming. “ ‘Review strategic alternatives’ is code for sell yourself,” said Boyson, who specializes in activist investors. “The fact that Akamai took the step to hire a well-regarded investment bank to perform a strategic review is a positive […]

“Where the real challenge lies is that cities don’t control entirely their destinies. They rely on transportation, energy networks, communication networks that sprawl across the country, across borders,” says Stephen Flynn, director of the Global Resilience Institute at Northeastern University.

Social media connects us to the world, but two entrepreneurs from Northeastern University want to make sure it also keeps us in touch with our neighbors.

With the release of Steven Spielberg’s new movie, The Post, we look back at the battle between the Post and the Nixon Administration over the Pentagon Papers, a secret government study about the Vietnam War that revealed the government’s lies about U.S. involvement in the conflict. The movie focuses on Katherine Graham’s role as publisher […]

Hospitals’ community benefit didn’t really budge after the ACA. That’s according to a study led by Gary Young of Northeastern University, which found that tax-exempt hospitals spent 8.1 percent of revenue on community benefit in 2014, a slight bump from 7.6 percent in 2010 but in line with historic trends. The biggest portion of that […]

“If the judge feels there’s sufficient information to assess the individual, a warrant for arrest is issued,” says Leo Beletsky, associate professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University in Boston. “The cops arrest the person, take them into a holding cell and then they undergo an evaluation by a clinical professional.”

Facebook has fixed the problem, Wired reports, but not before researchers from Northeastern University in Boston, US, were able to identify 19 personal phone numbers.

Daniel Medwed, Northeastern law professor and WGBH legal analyst, says that creating uncertainty around an industry that already struggles to obtain the traditional tools of business, including investment and bank services, could hamper the recreational marijuana trade in Massachusetts. “Like any nascent, burgeoning industry, you need financial backing to be successful,” he said. “And I can imagine a lot […]

All of which is to say that when Michael Wolff’s book “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House” was released late last week, the ground was already plowed and well-fertilized. So it’s no surprise that it became an immediate sensation. If Wolff were providing us with new information, we would need time to process it, to […]

The data used in the San Francisco study came from a group of researchers at Northeastern University in Boston who opened a series of Uber and Lyft accounts across the city and used them to track when the nearest available vehicles accepted or completed ride requests. “The Northeastern researchers collected information on vehicle locations every […]