Charles River Associates News

New Year's Needham is an increasingly popular First Night-style celebration offering family-friendly entertainment, with Thursday's edition to include performances by : magician Chris Bolter, Rocco the gravity-defying acrobat, and the Charles River Ballet Academy.

Under a new sponsorship agreement, the Boston sneaker company will contribute a minimum of $10,000 so the state can clear the 17-plus-mile riverside path after snowstorms, from the Museum of Science to Watertown's Galen Street Bridge.

Thanks to Brighton-based New Balance for funding snow removal on paths along the river.

The railroad tracks that slice through campus are mostly silent these days, a relic of an era when factories lined the Charles River.

Anne Phillips Ogilby, a bond attorney at one of Boston's oldest law firms, on Oct.

Close OPINION: THE WEEKEND INTERVIEW DECEMBER 12, 2009 Health Care's 'Radical Improver' How medicine's digital revolution can empower doctors and patients, with or without ObamaCare.

Last Fourth of July, as on every Independence Day for a number of years, millions of Americans tuned into the patriotic concert and fireworks show on the Charles River Esplanade in Boston.

Its medieval streets may seem a lifetime away from midtown Manhattan, but the University of Cambridge will light up New York City this week to celebrate its unique part in shaping America's past, present and future.

Tom Cruise, who began filming the locally shot James Mangold action comedy " Knight & Day " with Cameron Diaz on Tuesday, Sept.

Bruce Smith, executive director of Community Rowing Inc., led a tour yesterday through the group's boathouse along the Charles River.

Paul Revere lived in this house, with his sixteen children . It's the oldest wood residence in Boston.

Charles River Associates , promoted Monica Noether to Chief Operating Officer.Monica, who holds an MBA and a PhD in Economicsfrom University of Chicago,had beenExecutive Vice President responsible for marketing and business development for the firm.

Is CRA International Inc. ready to contribute to the consolidation underway in the business consulting sector? The firm on Tuesday reshuffled its management , including promoting an internal executive to the top corporate development job.

Mr. DeGeer is a former managing partner of Marakon and joins CRA from Huron Consulting Group.

Consulting firm Charles River Associates on Tuesday named Monica Noether its chief operating officer.

A new Harvard contract means that wind turbines, such as these pictured across the Charles River, will soon provide 10 percent of Harvard's electricity.

Tufts Professor of Computer Science Carla Brodley chose to spend her sabbatical working at Tuftsa School of Medicine.

Capital City Rowing finished in the top tier at the 45th Head of the Charles, the nation's largest regatta, with more than 8,000 rowers participating from around the world.

Crews on "The Social Network'' were out on the Charles River over the weekend filming more of the movie about the Harvard kids who created Facebook.

You may, for instance, feel undereducated, maybe even IQ-impaired. But spend the time anyway.