“This is an awesome case study,” he said. “It’s a great study in managing family dynamics. It’s a great study in leadership styles, in ownership styles. There’s a whole pile of interesting stuff.” — Ted Clark, professor of entrepreneurship and innovation at Northeastern University

Dov Waxman, a professor of political science and the co-director of Northeastern University’s Middle East Center, remembers his first teaching job in Ankara, Turkey, at the beginning of the Second Intifada. “It was a baptism of fire,” says Waxman, who is Jewish. “When they asked me questions about the Holocaust, because they hadn’t heard about […]

Arthur T. Demoulas, the ousted Market Basket chief executive officer who inspired an employee revolt to get him back, won his bid to buy the supermarket chain. Demoulas and his sisters agreed to purchase the 50.5 percent of Market Basket they don’t own from family members who fired him, the company said late yesterday in […]

Six miles off the coast of Key Largo and 63 feet below the ocean surface sits the world’s only undersea marine laboratory—the FIU Aquarius Reef Base. There, researchers from Florida International University, Northeastern University, and MIT recently joined documentarian Fabien Cousteau for Mission 31. The month-long project aimed to study the effects of global warming […]

Workers spent much of Thursday loading up delivery trucks and getting food back into 71 New England Market Basket stores, following the remarkable conclusion of one of the most amazing stories in American business history. In short, Arthur T. Demoulas is back in. More than six weeks after he was ousted as CEO by the […]

More than 265,000 Bay Staters who want jobs still aren’t working — a more than 40-percent spike from 2007 — showing the state is far from clear of the five-yearlong shadow of the recession, a Herald analysis of U.S. Department of Labor data shows. From the second half of 2013 to the first half of […]

Gift cards are a versatile gift for the recipient — and a convenient and easy purchase for the giver. They can even make a smart purchase for yourself, as with iTunes gift cards, which are almost always on sale. Part of that convenience of gift cards is that they are tax free when purchased. But […]

A White House report out last month on the nation’s shrinking labor participation rate said gloomy job prospects likely have driven some older workers into retirement. It also pointed to research that indicates the longer people are unemployed, the lower their odds of finding work. A big factor is that employers discriminate against job applicants […]

As the United States takes a more direct hand in combatting ISIS in Iraq, questions have come up about how any relationship with Damascus will (or should) evolve. “This is an organization that has an apocalyptic end-of-days strategic vision that will eventually have to be defeated,” said Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, the chairman of the […]

These days, Northeastern University is welcoming back more than just students to campus. As part of a new “public arts initiative,” the school will be transforming portions of its buildings, walls, and interior and exterior open spaces into makeshift canvases for rotating art installations created by students, faculty, and artists from around the world. To […]

Northeastern University students will have the opportunity to co-op with Dana-Farber Cancer Institute thanks to a $1.15 million grant from the National Institutes of Health. The school has been competing for years to receive funding from the federal group, hoping to train undergraduates in nanomedicine, the science of using molecules to more precisely deploy cancer […]

US officials confirmed on Tuesday that the US has begun reconnaissance flights over Syria, suggesting the ground is being prepared for missile strikes once targets have been identified. Some analysts argue that not only must an air campaign be carried out in Syria but it should be conducted in cooperation with the Assad regime. “Not […]