Human Resources Executive Time for new measures Business leaders face substantial challenges and opportunities in the current global economic environment. Customer expectations for faster, better, cheaper goods and services are increasing at an accelerating pace, in no small part due to the creation of global markets and distribution systems. And, more and better data and information have enabled precise segmentation and targeting […]
Models Show ‘Hidden Outbreak’ Spread Weeks Before U.S. Took Action To Slow The Coronavirus Modeling from Northeastern University publicized this week suggests thousands of cases may have spread undetected throughout New York, Boston, San Francisco, Chicago and Seattle in January and February — long before those cities and others registered an official case count or implemented social distancing measures.
Words That Wound People may feel ashamed or afraid to talk about abuse, including the verbal kind, so the researchers from Northeastern University asked their older subjects to respond to questions by touching a computer screen. It gave them more privacy. They instructed these seniors to think about the person who helped them most with their care – […]
God Bless America! This is no coincidence — these things are interconnected. “People who are more religious score worse on varying measures of intelligence…. The three psychologists [(Miron Zuckerman and Jordan Silberman of the University of Rochester and Judith Hall of Northeastern University)] have defined intelligence as the “ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend complex […]
White House Floats Its Ideas on Gun Control The White House threw its support behind several gun-control measures Tuesday, including requiring background checks at gun shows and for other private sales—ideas likely to face stiff opposition from most congressional Republicans and the powerful gun lobby. President Barack Obama also wants to renew the expired ban on assault weapons and consider limits on high-capacity […]
U.S. News & World Report The Real Impact of Babies on Career Success Jamie Ladge knows that people hate hearing that they can’t “have it all.” As a professor at Northeastern University who studies career success, sheâs discovered that one problem with that phrase is that it usually refers to working in a full-time, inflexible environment while trying to juggle the demands of parenthood. But a newer way […]