Gratitude, states Northeastern University professor David DeSteno in the Harvard Business Review, is a way to foster long-term thinking and patience. “We all recognize the fact that willpower can and does fail at times,” he writes. The facts today in Europe cry out for gratitude. A continent that was once in constant war now has […]

At the first of three community meetings on a body camera pilot program organized by the Boston City Council, even what seemed like should have been a simple yes or no question — should officers be able to record inside someone’s home? — led to a discussion about consent, privacy, and domestic violence issues. “It’s […]

Margaret Burnham, a law professor at Northeastern University and the first female, African American judge in Massachusetts, is completing an archive of 400 unsolved murder cases from the South, dating from 1930 to 1970, thought to have been racially motivated. In addition to providing a sense of closure for the families and communities, the archival […]

Cosmologists have long thought that the universe is made up of galaxies tethered together by gravity. But what on earth does this ‘cosmic web’ actually look like? That’s what researchers at Northeastern University’s Center For Complex Network Research have been working on. They created three computer models of possible links between 24,000 galaxies, and then […]

Concurrent with Mr. Walsh’s vision is a growing interest by the area’s colleges and universities. Northeastern University hired Phoenix Property Co, for example, to construct its high-rise East Village for $96.5 million. Writing in the Boston Globe, Tim Logan notes: “East Village is the first dorm in Boston to be financed by private developers, and […]

Laurel Leff, an associate professor of journalism at Northeastern University in Boston, thinks “trying to find out what Americans knew about the Holocaust at the time is a really important project.” She is the author of “Buried by The Times,” a roundly praised 2005 book that found that The New York Times altered and downplayed […]

Such inequality is indicative of populations at the extreme edges of the wealth spectrum: the very rich who can afford market-rate prices and the very poor who qualify for government housing, says Barry Bluestone, a professor of public policy and urban affairs at Northeastern University in Boston. “Everybody in between is being squeezed, and what […]

“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 […]

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. […]

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.

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 […]

“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.”