A common military tactic by which an attacker attempts to disable or weaken a target before an invasion is referred to as “prepping the battlefield.” Digital warfare is one way that foreign nation states disable critical infrastructure to make it vulnerable to conventional assaults. Stephen Flynn of Northeastern University, testifying last year before the House […]

Worker shortages loom. “Our real problem is going to be finding enough people to fill the jobs we have, and not the other way around,” says Barry Bluestone, a labor expert at Northeastern University in Boston who heads the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy. Bluestone has researched the future employment landscape for seniors, and […]

If you want to cut tobacco deaths, you need look no further than federal legislation signed into law in 2009, according to a law professor. The Family Smoking Prevention and Control Act paves the way for two aggressive approaches, according to a New York Timesop-ed by Northeastern University law professor Richard Daynard. The law allows the Food […]

Somerville toy creators Peter Dilworth and Max Bogue struck Internet gold just two days after they posted a project on the crowd-funding website Kickstarter to pay for their latest ­invention: a three-dimensional printer in the form of a hand-held pen. Their gadget, known as the 3Doodler, attracted so many pledges — with many people offering­ the […]

Don Margotta, a finance professor who has written extensively about hostile takeovers at Northeastern University in Boston, said that staggered board structure “is very effective in fighting off takeovers, or at least slowing them down.” On top of that, Margotta said, are Ohio laws that prevent investors from buying more than 20 percent of a company without […]

Like Robert Bergman, Dr. Carl Zangerl of Northeastern University in Boston, MA also has over 20 years experience in the business world and is responsible for curriculum development at his institution. As Academic Director of the Master’s in Corporate and Organizational Communication degree at the College of Professional Studies, part of Dr. Zangerl’s responsibilities at the […]

Even though Boston added more units of housing in the last decade than in the three previous decades combined, the pace of new development is not keeping up with all the people who want to live here. The Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University predicts that unless annual housing production in […]

PERHAPS no public official was as synonymous with the antismoking movement as C. Everett Koop, who died last Monday at age 96. Dr. Koop, who worked tirelessly to turn America into “a smoke-free society,” did not live to see that goal reached. But the rest of us have the power to make it happen. Fewer than […]

At the same time, many companies “have a lack of interest” in hiring people out of work for too long, said William Dickens, professor of economics and social policy at Northeastern University in Boston and a senior fellow at Brookings. “It may take some unlearning on the part of firms.”

In presentations across the country, the Washington, D.C.-based Urban Land Institute is citing the Quincy project as one to watch. Northeastern University is planning a course for the fall semester called “The Quincy Model,” in which the public-private partnership behind the project will be used as a teaching tool. The New York Times and trade […]

Harvard is up. MIT is up. Northeastern is up. UMass Amherst is up. Boston University is up. But at Boston College, the number of applications received for its incoming freshman class is down. And that’s just the way the school wants it.

Bloomberg Businessweek has apologized after its latest cover, showing black and Latino people wallowing in cash, drew offense at what many saw as racist depictions. The cover was for a story entitled “The Great American Housing Rebound,” which describes a return to the aggressive mortgage lending practices that created the last housing bubble. … “Racist […]