CNBC Amazon and the endangered future of the middle manager “What you saw from Amazon is just the beginning,” said Naeem Zafar, a professor at UC Berkeley Haas School of Business and Northeastern University, with the downsizing of the managerial layer a larger trend set to play out across corporate America.
Marketplace The advertising world is changing fast — mergers can help firms stay ahead of the curve After 25 years in advertising, Northeastern University professor Koen Pauwels said the constant change keeps him young. “Every year we have new technology. We have new platforms that consumers engage with,” he said.
The Year in Closures and Mergers The merger announced in May will see Boston-based Northeastern absorb a campus in New York City, extending Northeastern’s already large footprint to 14 campuses worldwide. Since 2011, the university has expanded aggressively and now has campuses in California, Miami, London and elsewhere.
As Trump prepares to take office, here’s what to know about ‘sanctuary cities’ But what does it mean for a community to be a sanctuary for immigrants who are living in the country illegally? Hemanth Gundavaram, codirector of Northeastern University’s Immigrant Justice Clinic, said the term is somewhat misleading as it suggests those communities can provide full protection from federal immigration enforcement, when they can’t.
AFP Taylor Swift closed her Eras tour on top of the world. Now what? “Taylor Swift just needs to rest, frankly,” said Andrew Mall, an ethnomusicologist at Northeastern University. It’s a wholly reasonable sentiment when you look at what the megastar, who turns 35 on Friday, has accomplished, including releasing nine albums in five years alongside a concert feature film.
CNBC Parents who raise mentally strong kids do this 1 thing: ‘They’ll be better equipped to handle life’s challenges,’ psychotherapist says Amy Morin is a psychotherapist, clinical social worker and instructor at Northeastern University.
NBC News Kroger and Albertsons are spending billions to reward shareholders after their blocked merger The judges in the case “correctly saw the merger as a huge threat to the jobs and benefits of thousands of their members working for those chains and the communities in which they live,” said Seth Harris, a law and policy professor at Northeastern University and a former top labor adviser in the Biden White […]
GQ “Wikipedia boyfriends” on celebrating their gloriously mundane online hobby Are more dudes really into Wikipedia than women? Some data suggests so, says Joseph Reagle, who studies digital culture at Northeastern University in Massachusetts, and who edited an academic book about Wikipedia, Wikipedia @ 20.
CommonWealth Magazine Community colleges are increasingly enrolling students with significant skill deficits, study finds A 2021 report, co-authored by Alicia Modestino of Northeastern University and Ben Forman, research director at the nonpartisan think tank MassINC, highlighted the significant labor market returns from community college degrees in STEM and health care fields.
Why Things Could Get Worse for EV Startups WSJ’s Tech News Briefing discusses how a group at MIT and Northeastern University is discovering that they could cut the power transmitted to AI centers by 22 to 24%.
Breaking up Big Tech may be off the table under Trump That suggests the fates of the various tech giants could diverge based on Trump’s leanings, according to Northeastern Law School professor Elettra Bietti. “In the Trump 2.0 administration … enforcement will be a matter of picking and choosing from the foes,” Bietti said. “And it’s possible that there will be a lot of talk and […]
The Tribune For 8 Months, Traffic Enforcement on New Jersey’s Highways Plummeted Asked about the slowdown, leaders of the three labor unions that represent roughly 3,200 sworn State Police officers all pointed to the critical report by Matthew B. Ross, a Northeastern University professor hired in 2021 by a former attorney general to review 6.2 million traffic stops troopers made between 2009 and 2021.