John Plodinec in Resilient Communities: Economic Recovery – Sort Of The pandemic and protests and civil disorder continue to assail both the social fabrics and the economies of our cities,…
Daniel Aldrich Interviewed for Inc. Magazine: How to Recover Costs Fast If Your Business Has Been Looted When Cary Williams learned on May 30 that the paint store two doors down from her Santa Monica, California, boxing…
John Plodinec in Resilient Communities: Connecting the Disconnected The McKinsey Global Institute recently identified ten high priority challenges in forging a social compact for the 21st Century. To…
How Will COVID-19 Impact Our Climate Action Strategies? When the COVID-19 pandemic first started, the halt of travel helped to quickly lower carbon emissions from transportation and brought…
Daniel Aldrich in Eurasia Review: Pandemic Conundrum: To Control Or To Trust? – Analysis Excerpt: The gravity of declining social capital is especially worrying during a pandemic as social capital is cardinal to resilience and…
Nada Sanders in News@Northeastern: Here’s Why A Covid-19 Vaccine May Not Be Enough “It’s not going to be sufficient just to get a viable vaccine,” says Nada Sanders, distinguished professor of supply chain…
Tracy Robinson-Wood in News@Northeastern: How To Talk To Kids About Systemic Racism And Anti-Black Violence Over the last several months, the United States has seen massive upheaval in almost every aspect of life—the COVID-19 pandemic…
Ted Landsmark in WCVB: Project CommUNITY: Brief history of race, racism in Massachusetts The history of Black people in Massachusetts dates back to at least 1638 when documents show the first slaves were…
Even Pretty Models Can Give Ugly Results More and more, leaders of every sort of enterprise – from corporations to federal, state and local governments – are…
The Impact of COVID-19 on minority-owned small businesses in the United States Minority-owned independent companies are being disproportionately affected by the financial consequences of the COVID-19 closures yet are offering us a…
Ted Landsmark in News@Northeastern: ‘These Burdens Shouldn’t Be Laid Just At Our Doorstep’ The Black Lives Matter movement has shown no signs of receding over the four weeks since protests erupted around the…
Ted Landsmark on News@Northeastern: Voices of Northeastern Ted Landsmark, distinguished professor of public policy and urban affairs and director of the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional…