Employees will not trust you by default. As a leader, you need to prove your trustworthiness time and time again. You will need to track and manage the level of trust your employees have in you and your leadership. David DeSteno, a professor of psychology at Northeastern University and the author of The Truth About […]

Is it problematic that Facebook was the one to run the study, and for commercial purposes? If you’re feeling exploited — either by Facebook’s collection of data or by the way the company used it — then you have a bigger issue with 21st-century enterprises more generally. Whether disclosed publicly or not, the use of […]

When users sign up for Facebook, they agree to allow research studies to be conducted on their profiles. In 2012, Facebook manipulated users’ news feeds without their consent to see whether their moods changed when exposed to positive or negative news. “I think it is cause for concern,” said Northeastern University Professor Dan Kennedy, a […]

Northeastern University law professor Roger Abrams, who has authored several books on baseball history, spoke about why Gehrig’s speech still matters all these years later. “He’s taken on mythic proportions,” he said. “Baseball really reflects American society, and in every myth, you need the tragic figure. And he, after just an extraordinary career, becomes the […]

Trust is often talked about as the bedrock of a company’s success. Most people think about the issue in terms of customers: They have to believe in you and your products and services. But trust within the organization is just as important: Your employees must believe in each other. When they don’t, communication, teamwork and […]

And turns out, there’s science behind why we feel compassion toward people who have been in our same boat. In one small study, researchers found that humans’ sense of compassion actually increases when there’s a common connection with the other person. “What these results suggest is that the compassion we feel for others is not […]

In the US and Australia, two very different higher education reform initiatives are playing out in two very different ways. In the US, President Barack Obama recently expanded a programme that enables borrowers to cap their federal student loan repayments at 10 per cent of their monthly income. By contrast, Australia’s prime minister, Tony Abbott, […]

Northeastern University is starting a master of science in security and resilience studies.

Northeastern University Provost Stephen Director is embarking on a deep-dive journey in the Florida Keys to join researchers who are on a 31-day expedition with the grandson of famed explorer Jacques Cousteau. The underwater adventure, called Mission-31, will be aboard the Aquarius vessel, where aquanauts from the school’s Marine Science Center have been leading some […]

Northeastern University law professor Martha Davis, who was part of a legal team that argued a mid-1990s case before the Supreme Court in support of buffer zones in New York, predicts that Massachusetts abortion clinics will beef up security and experience more confrontations. as a result of Thursday’s ruling. “What I think we’re going to […]

GoPro videos could also have a future on cable TV. “If they are able to take a ‘best of’ and upstream it — you know, they get their own half-hour show on MTV or something,” says Jeff Howe, who teaches multimedia journalism at Northeastern University. GoPro could sell advertising, leading to a steady stream of […]

In recent weeks, Americans have been inundated with stories about the surge in children from Central America and Mexico arriving at the southern US border. Forty-seven thousand unaccompanied minors, including those as young as four or five years old and and even infants and toddlers, have come across the border in the past eight months, […]