Joseph M. Giglio Professor of strategic management, Northeastern University “America is stuck in the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. Unemployment remains stubbornly high. Yet we are told that there are an estimated 3 million jobs available such as electricians, manufacturing workers, mechanics, machine operators, software developers, engineers, nurses, truck drivers, etc. We are […]

Nothing has been more enduring than the stereotype of women as chatterboxes, gabbing about everything and anything at any time, all the time. That Chatty Cathy construct simply isn’t true, say researchers in a new study published in the journal Scientific Reports. Both sexes actually talk a lot, but when it comes to that “more” […]

Breast-feeding in America has historically been a charged issue. At different times it has been considered feminist and antifeminist, better for a baby than formula-feeding and worse, though its nutritional benefits are unchallenged today. “You still continually see issues about breast-feeding in public,” said Linda Blum, a Northeastern University sociologist who studies the ideologies of […]

Do women talk more that men? Well at least that’s what the world tends to believe. There are many opinions, lots of contradictions and lack of sufficient scientific data adds up more fuel to the debate. But most likely a solution has arrived from the work of Northeastern professor David Lazer. His work focuses on […]

Given that MH17 was reportedly flying at 33,000 feet when it was shot down, such an attack would indeed represent a major feat for a nonstate actor. There are historical precedents for civilian aircraft being shot down by missiles, but one reason it’s a relatively rare occurrence is that the necessary capabilities tend to be […]

“The mix of the jobs has changed somewhat,” said Alan Clayton-Matthews, a Northeastern University economist. Massachusetts is in its fifth year of recovery since the Great Recession. As people have begun working again, incomes have risen, households have paid down debt, and home prices have increased. But the state’s economic growth no longer outpaces the […]

Thursday’s report also revised up, by 1,200, the Massachusetts jobs gain in May — from an original estimate of 9,100 to 10,300. “The Massachusetts economy is continuing to plug along at a moderate pace,” Northeastern University economist Alan Clayton-Matthews said. “What’s interesting about it is that growth has been steady over the past year, for […]

I would argue that there’s another, more immediate educational use for wearables, one that students can benefit from even without laying their hands on the hardware: dreaming up software for the devices. In this month’s story on using Google Glass in the classroom, we found three early-adopter institutions encouraging students to design apps for the […]

But the unusual public display of dissent from employees to their bosses left some specialists in family business issues agog. “Wow,” said Ted Clark, executive director of Northeastern University’s Center for Family Business. “It certainly shows their loyalty.” Though he admired their moxie, Clark likened the actions of the Demoulas employees to a game of […]

A study released Tuesday sought to answer the ages-old and oft-debated question, do women really talk more than men? This most recent answer seems to be: well, it depends. Northeastern University Professor David Lazer and his team studied 133 adult subjects in either professional or relaxed settings and gave them all “sociometers,” a device about […]

The $2.8 billion is the most that Buffett has donated to charities since he began making annual gifts in 2006, showing that Buffett is committed to giving away an unprecedented sum of money in his lifetime, says Rebecca Riccio, director of the Social Impact Lab at Northeastern University. She says Buffett considers these to be […]

The whole idea behind the Fairmount Line is to bring economic activity to the streets that surround the train tracks. Rising property prices should be an indication that the rail line has created something people want to be a part of. But that’s only if the trains are helping to create wealth in neighborhoods instead […]