City Shaping V: Can Philanthropy for Boston’s Parks Break Through the Grass Ceiling? Grand civic gestures, courtesy entrepreneurial public-private partnerships, and some deep-pocketed donors are pumping new life into some old guard cities, among them New York and Philadelphia, where urban parks are “in” and planners speak of the “Highline effect” as they once did of the “Bilbao effect.”
The Boston Herald Tory Burch urges students to go “Startup America” Designer Tory Burch yesterday told a standing-room-only audience of budding entrepreneurs at Northeastern University that the key to starting a successful business is to begin with a âunique ideaâ that youâre passionate enough to work hard at developing.
Gingrich Loses the Media Primary Is it over? A better way of putting it: Do the media want it to be over? The Florida Republican primary ended last night with dual scenes reminiscent of campaigns past.
Study: “Virtual Coach” Helps Keep Overweight People Moving If youâve been talking with Siri on your iPhone lately, you know how deeply natural it is to respond to a computer-generated ‘person’ as if they were human even when you know perfectly well they’re built of nothing but bits.
Tory Burch talks entrepreneurship and budding business at Northeastern University Fashion designer Tory Burch took center stage at the Raytheon Theater at Northeastern University earlier this afternoon to chat with a room brimming with budding entrepreneurs. The Philadelphia native was invited to serve on the board of Startup America Partnership, with much credit to her efforts through her namesake foundation, The Tory Burch Foundation, and […]
Startup Summer aims to match college students with 100 summer internships in Boston Cory Bolotsky, a student at Northeastern University, is working on a worthy new project: Startup Summer, which wants to place 100 college students in internships at Boston-area companies this year.
U.S. News & World Report 4 Questions a Hiring Manager Should Never Ask The goal of any interview is to get to know you better and make sure that your background fits the company’s needs. Every employer wants to fill the position with someone who fits well and has enough experience to do the job. And while interviews can become more personal as the conversation continues, certain questions […]
Technology Review Mobile Phone Data Reveals Human Reproductive Strategies Various studies have shown that the frequency of contact between individuals is a reliable indicator of the emotional link between them. So it should come as no surprise that the data from mobile phone calls is a potential treasure trove of information about the social lives of humans.
Bloomberg Businessweek Northeastern B-School Names New Dean Hugh Courtney, most recently vice dean of University of Maryland’s Smith School of Business, has been named dean at Northeastern University’s College of Business Administration. He is expected to take office in July. The school tapped Courtney, a business strategy expert, in part because of his experience strengthening Smith’s executive education program and expanding that […]
Help wanted on teens’ summer jobs Teens with summer jobs are more likely to find themselves behind a counter than in front of a computer. Mayor Thomas M. Menino of Boston is hoping to change that, and heâs calling on the city’s newest corporate citizens for help. As he launches his annual campaign for summer jobs for teens today, the mayor […]
Pot-based mouth spray medicine looks for U.S. approval A quarter-century after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first prescription drugs based on the main psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, additional medicines derived from or inspired by the cannabis plant itself could soon be making their way to pharmacy shelves, according to drug companies, small biotech firms and university scientists.
Report: Mass. fourth-quarter GDP growth lagged the nation’s The Mass. economy slowed to a 2.3 percent real GDP growth rate in the fourth quarter, according to a report published today by MassBenchmarks â a slower annualized rate than the 2.8 percent national GDP growth rate for the quarter, posted by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis Thursday morning.