Ed Wertheim, professor at Northeastern University, Boston: “The Brexit negotiations will generate many examples of ‘anchoring’ – a powerful force in negotiations. The Brexit discussions, like most negotiations, will result in compromises. The stronger (and more credibly) one anchors, the more likely the compromises will result in one’s favour. Also, the more extremely one anchors, […]

José Buscaglia, a professor at Northeastern University and co-leader of the its Cuba delegation, said that visiting Cuba can provide a very different experience than what the average person may assume. “People from the U.S. have a fascination with Cuba that is hard to describe,” he said. “The main idea that Cuba is somehow stuck […]

Caroline Bynum and Madeline Drake are having a spring semester unlike any other. The Northeastern University students are living and working in Cuba, immersing themselves in the culture as they become the first U.S. undergrads to take part in such a program in the island nation, the school said.

Engin Kirda, a professor of computer science at Northeastern University, said that a wall outlet or a three-prong surge protector connected to an outlet could be compromised, in theory, but “such an attack would typically be complex and very targeted.” Kirda also said that an attack of that nature would be very difficult to pull […]

A number of senators on the panel applauded Kutcher for lending his celebrity profile and energy to the issue of sex and labor trafficking, which garnered fresh attention in the last couple of years after a landmark report from the Urban Institute and Northeastern University revealed what those who study and work against the issue […]

It’s easy to understand the appeal of a president as CEO. The U.S. president is indisputably the chief executive of a massive, complex, global structure known as the federal government. And if the performance of our national economy is vital to the well-being of us all, why not believe that Trump’s experience running a large […]