In his State of the Union address last week, President Obama spoke eloquently of “middle-class economics,” or as he put it, policies to help “working families feel more secure in a world of constant change.” One of these is his proposal to make community college free for any student who maintains a minimum GPA. Students and […]

Imagine a world where there is no cure for strep throat, pneumonia or a simple ear infection. Today, most bacterial infections can be treated with a trip to the doctor and a quick round of antibiotics—but experts say this won’t be the case if bacteria continue to build resistance. The majority of antibiotics come from […]

The Dorm Room Fund Boston is welcoming students back to campus by welcoming two new members to its investment team: Eric Sung, a first-year MBA student at Harvard Business School, and Kate Murdock, a sophomore studying at Northeastern University. Over the last year, the student-run investment arm of First Round Capital has poured $20,000 and […]

According to a recent Northeastern University study, you may pay more when shopping online based on your web browsing history or even the kind of smartphone you use. Some consumers have seen their credit limits reduced because they shopped at stores frequented by cardholders with poor payment histories. It’s not inconceivable to think insurance companies […]

Last Tuesday, President Obama’s State of the Union address reiterated the statistic that working women in the United States “make 77 cents for every dollar a man earns” and went on to call for “equal pay for equal work.” Obama was promoting the Paycheck Fairness Act, which would require employers to prove that any wage […]

Harlan Platt, a finance professor at Northeastern University, says that, from a customer-experience point of view, the Delta remodeling is largely “cosmetic.” “They fail to touch on the big three concerns of most passengers: legroom, access to bins, and fair prices and fees,” he says. “Like most oligopolistic industries, this is what we can expect […]

In Scandal in Bohemia, Sherlock Holmes elucidated: “I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.” If Holmes was talking about sports – he was not – it likely would have been about […]

After 10 years of working 60-hour weeks as an animator in Hollywood, Justin Horvath needed a change — and a better balance between his professional and personal lives. So Horvath headed east in 2010 to get his master’s degree in educational/instructional technology from Boston University. The degree opened the door to the field of online […]

According to the “Portrait of Generation Z” report released by Northeastern University, nearly two-thirds of Gen Z-aged respondents said they want to learn about entrepreneurship in college, including how to start a busi­ness. More than four in 10 expect to work for them­selves at some point—nearly four times higher than the current per­centage of self-​​employed […]

My name is Jay Robert Guy, III. I was one of the most successful hedge fund managers on Wall Street until I was sentenced to three years in federal prison on 10 counts of securities fraud, along with the usual seven-figure fines for engaging in insider trading. The judge called me a white-collar sociopath, and […]

“Governments are generally less inclined to support terrorist groups with prisoners versus money,” said Max Abrahms, an assistant professor of political science at Northeastern University in Boston, who studies terrorism. “There are higher costs to governments to release terrorist prisoners,” he said in an interview. The demand for al-Rishawi’s release also is unlikely to be […]

As elegant and precise as they can be, speeches are data, after all. A pair of interactive graphics posted to The Atlantic from Mitch Fraas and Northeastern assistant professor of history Benjamin Schmidt mapped both the areas of geographical focus of SOTUs through history and the language of the speeches themselves, the propensity of one […]