Three professors today were awarded the prestigious 12th Annual Jerry S. Cohen Memorial Fund Writing Award for their groundbreaking antitrust scholarship. Established in memory of Mr. Cohen, a founding partner of Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC, the award was given today to professors C. Scott Hemphill, Tim Wu, and John E. Kwoka, Jr. at […]

Alan Clayton-Matthews, a Northeastern University economist, said the jobs gained in May are a continuation of “moderate growth” for the state. As people have begun working again, incomes have risen, households have paid down debt, and home prices have increased. That has boosted consumer spending, which accounts for more than two-thirds of the nation’s economic […]

Massachusetts’ workforce has the nation’s highest concentration of jobs in biotechnology, medical technology, and other life sciences fields, according to a report released Wednesday. More than 113,000 people in the state work in life sciences, making the sector about as big as the state’s construction industry. The biggest chunk of life sciences workers, more than […]

The U.S. Patent & Trademark Office has cancelled the Washington Redskins’ trademark registration, calling the football team’s name disparaging to Native Americans. While this is the first step in what could become a lengthy judicial proceeding, it reflects a growing recognition in our country that we have begun to move beyond the racial slurs of […]

Many people questioned whether the tax break granted to Millennium at the end of the term of former Mayor Thomas M. Menino was misplaced, said Thomas J. Vicino, an associate professor of political science at Northeastern University. “There is a market failure here — there is not enough housing being produced for the city in […]

One last point: in my recent Next Avenue blog post about the Giving With Purpose MOOC I enrolled in — offered by Northeastern University and the Giving With Purpose Foundation — I mentioned that it would give $150,000 in grants to nonprofits that passed muster with the students. The 30 winning nonprofits have just been […]