MIS Asia Hot security skills of 2013 It will always be extremely important to be able to communicate with diverse audiences, says Young. Not only must CSOs make complex security issues understandable to the enterprise at large, they must also make it clear how important security risk, particularly digital risk management, is to the executive suite’s agenda. David Luzzi, executive director of […]
U.S. News & World Report How Ashley Judd Can Overcome Daily Caller’s ‘Sexist’ Hollywood Stigma “Their job is being able to sell a role or a message and to do that you have to be able to articulate yourself and capitalize on your personality,” says Alan Schroeder, a professor at Northeastern University’s School of Journalism and author of Celebrity-in-Chief: How Show Business Took Over the White House. “Innately, [entertainers] have a […]
Google Glass: is it a threat to our privacy? Of course, the benefits wouldn’t accrue to the wearer. Google would sell the data (suitably anonymised, of course). And your smartphone already provides a huge amount of detail about you. Song Chaoming, a researcher at Northeastern University in Boston, has been analysing mobile phone records (including which base stations the phone connects to) and has […]
5 Questions for Northeastern’s Peter Stokes Dr. Peter Stokes is currently the executive director of postsecondary innovation in the College of Professional Studies at Northeastern University. Many of you probably got to know Peter during his tenure (almost 14 years!) in various leadership roles at Eduventures. Why interview Peter when we can skip the middleman and read exactly what is on his […]
Hardening Our Defenses Against Cyberwarfare A common military tactic by which an attacker attempts to disable or weaken a target before an invasion is referred to as “prepping the battlefield.” Digital warfare is one way that foreign nation states disable critical infrastructure to make it vulnerable to conventional assaults. Stephen Flynn of Northeastern University, testifying last year before the House […]
U.S. News & World Report Why Immigration Reform Is a Big Senior Issue Worker shortages loom. “Our real problem is going to be finding enough people to fill the jobs we have, and not the other way around,” says Barry Bluestone, a labor expert at Northeastern University in Boston who heads the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy. Bluestone has researched the future employment landscape for seniors, and […]
ABA Journal Want a smoke-free generation? Ban tobacco sales to anyone born this century, law prof says If you want to cut tobacco deaths, you need look no further than federal legislation signed into law in 2009, according to a law professor. The Family Smoking Prevention and Control Act paves the way for two aggressive approaches, according to a New York Timesop-ed by Northeastern University law professor Richard Daynard. The law allows the Food […]
3-D pen garners $2m on crowd-funding site Somerville toy creators Peter Dilworth and Max Bogue struck Internet gold just two days after they posted a project on the crowd-funding website Kickstarter to pay for their latest invention: a three-dimensional printer in the form of a hand-held pen. Their gadget, known as the 3Doodler, attracted so many pledges — with many people offering the […]
The Plain Dealer A. Schulman launches $855 million hostile takeover bid for Ferro Corp. Don Margotta, a finance professor who has written extensively about hostile takeovers at Northeastern University in Boston, said that staggered board structure “is very effective in fighting off takeovers, or at least slowing them down.” On top of that, Margotta said, are Ohio laws that prevent investors from buying more than 20 percent of a company without […]
Sprout Insights These Colleges Are Training Tomorrow’s Social Media Marketing Pros Like Robert Bergman, Dr. Carl Zangerl of Northeastern University in Boston, MA also has over 20 years experience in the business world and is responsible for curriculum development at his institution. As Academic Director of the Master’s in Corporate and Organizational Communication degree at the College of Professional Studies, part of Dr. Zangerl’s responsibilities at the […]
Boston humming as appeal of life in city booms Even though Boston added more units of housing in the last decade than in the three previous decades combined, the pace of new development is not keeping up with all the people who want to live here. The Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University predicts that unless annual housing production in […]
Stubbing Out Cigarettes for Good PERHAPS no public official was as synonymous with the antismoking movement as C. Everett Koop, who died last Monday at age 96. Dr. Koop, who worked tirelessly to turn America into “a smoke-free society,” did not live to see that goal reached. But the rest of us have the power to make it happen. Fewer than […]