Joseph Giglio, who teaches corporate strategy at Northeastern University, said, “What’s transpired this week is just validating the public’s suspicions about the motivations and competency of Boston 2024.” Boston 2024 has been reeling for some time. The committee had stumbled so often — it pledged, for example, to pay former Gov. Deval Patrick $7,500 a […]

Nikos Passas, a criminal justice professor at Northeastern University who has studied international corruption and law enforcement, was less sure. “The hope is that this is going to get the ball rolling,” Passos said. “But there is no certainty.”

Researchers have come up with a novel way of tracking unemployment that they say is much faster and more accurate than traditional estimates and surveys done by the Federal government. In a study published Tuesday in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface, a team from Northeastern University, Harvard, and MIT found that changes in […]

DartDrones is an authorized dealer for DJI, and trains people on the company’s popular Phantom, a four-bladed helicopter style craft that comes equipped with a 14 megapixel camera and sells for about $1,200. The DartDrones curriculum was designed by Andrew Clement, a 26-year-old economics undergrad at Northeastern University who spent a year flying recon drones […]

Seeking a change of venue is a common defense tactic, but such requests are very rarely granted, said Daniel Medwed, professor of criminal law at Northeastern University School of Law in Boston. In general, courts try to keep trials in the community where the incident occurred because of two general principles, Medwed said. The first […]

But obesity lawsuits have never actually succeeded in America. And who eats junk food with the expectation that, down the road, they’ll win a long-shot lawsuit making McDonald’s pay for their medical bills? “People just don’t think that way,” said Richard Daynard, a law professor at Northeastern who specializes in public health litigation. “Think about […]

Last month’s news that negotiators had reached a preliminary framework agreement about Iran’s nuclear program struck many by surprise. It was a refreshing sign of optimism for many who thought the negotiations were on the verge of failure. Although the parties involved—the United States, United Kingdom, China, Russia, France and Germany (known as the P5+1) […]

MH: There’s a recent study out of Northeastern University in Boston, looking at how fathers interact with their kids. They found that when dads spent more time with their children, they were less stressed about their jobs and less inclined to want to quit. AC: Okay. MH: Jamie Ladge, one of the professors who co-authored […]

The first time it happened, I was standing in line at the grocery store, and I was pregnant. “When you do you think you’ll have another?” the woman behind me asked. I was totally unprepared for this question. It had taken us years to get to this point as expectant parents, and it was a […]

Think about your daily cell-phone use. Maybe you generally call your significant other from the break room. Maybe at lunch you call a friend about meeting up for a drink later. At 3 p.m., you call to make sure your kid got home from school, and at 7 p.m. you call from the bar to apologize […]

The idea was to prevent chaos. Instead, efforts to control this season’s Republican presidential primary debates have injected greater uncertainty into an already volatile process. With the first debate just a couple of months in the offing, and with somewhere in the neighborhood of 20 candidates jockeying for position, the upcoming series of jousts is […]

I recently completed a study for the Law and Policy program at Northeastern University that surveyed US government employees as to how they perceived 28 leader behaviors on a 1-5 Likert Scale. I asked the respondents to consider how these behaviors would affect their own performance and morale. Two of the questions inquired about leader […]