“The incumbency advantage is a hallmark of when there’s a problem of accountability,” says Justin de Benedictis-Kessner, a research associate at the Boston Area Research Initiative at Harvard University and Northeastern University. “If people are re-electing any kind of elected official at a higher rate just because they’re an incumbent, and not because they’re necessarily […]

When a seasoned human rights expert who has traveled the globe arrives in America, crisscrosses our country for two weeks, and finds a depth of poverty that surprises even him, we need to pay attention, says Northeastern law professor Martha Davis.

“The Saudi-Iranian rivalry has become the organizing principle for Mideast alliances, reminiscent of how the Cold War divided countries along U.S. and Soviet lines,” Max Abrahms, professor of political science at Northeastern University, told AFP.

“Elliott’s not someone you fool around with,” said Nicole M. Boyson, an associate professor of finance at Northeastern University who studies activist investing. In many cases, she said, companies know they are vulnerable even before an activist initiates pressure, because of a lagging stock price, for example, and are wise to engage with the investor.

In the early years of the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) the Department of Health and Human Services was kept busy issuing and implementing regulations to support the monumental health care law, notes Wendy Parmet, faculty director of the Center for Health Policy and Law at Northeastern University. Now the tax bill has a provision […]

In his new book, Robot-Proof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, Northeastern University president Joseph Aoun, PhD ’82, says universities must rethink how they prepare students for a world where advances in technology are continually changing the workplace landscape—and making many traditional jobs obsolete.

WGBH’s Legal Analyst and Northeastern law professor Daniel Mewed places these developments in context for Morning Edition as the FBI is reportedly launching their own investigation into Rosenberg. Medwed also comments on a recording of a Senate Judicial Committee hearing that went viral after one of President Trump’s nominees for a federal judgeship, Matthew Petersen, […]

“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.