By Hannah Green – Inno Reporter January 26, 2023, 10:12am EST China has a tight grip on the rare earth elements supply chain. The country was responsible for 80% of rare earth imports in 2019, per the U.S. Geological Survey, and works in mining, processing and refining these materials into metals that are used in products like electric […]
Jan 28, 2023 Fed Set to Shrink Rate Hikes Again as Inflation Slows Kate Davidson and Craig Stirling, Bloomberg News Jerome Powell, chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, speaks during a news conference following a Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting in Washington, D.C., US, on Wednesday, July 27, 2022. Powell said while some commodity […]
Buck Wargo | Feb 09, 2023 A new firm is trying to create its own version of a commercial real estate dating service with the launch of a tech-enabled platform that matches 1031 exchange buyers with sales brokers. Miami-based nxtCRE, which secured Series A funding from private equity firm Riverlake Partners in late 2022, announced in late […]
Lynn Petrak Senior Editor YouGov, an international data and analytics group that regularly conducts polls on a range of topics, is out with its latest list of the most popular grocers in the United States. The research firm surveyed consumers during the fourth quarter of 2022. What does “popular” mean in this context? YouGov bases that […]
By Andy Medici – Senior Reporter, The Playbook, Jan 23, 2023 Updated Jan 23, 2023, 2:49pm EST Small-business owners are going to see big changes to their 401(k) and worker retirement packages — but there will be some tax credits too. The SECURE 2.0 Act saw many of its provisions folded into the government funding legislation passed in late 2022. The […]
By Rowan Walrath – Life Sciences Reporter, Boston Business Journal Jan 23, 2023 Moderna Inc. is hiring another 2,000 employees this year, a move that would massively grow its headcount — and most of them will be in Massachusetts. The Cambridge-based company (Nasdaq: MRNA) currently employs around 4,000 people globally, CEO Stephane Bancel told investors at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare […]
By Catherine Carlock and Emma Platoff Globe Staff,Updated January 18, 2023, 1:18 p.m In a bid to bring rent control back to Boston for the first time in three decades, Mayor Michelle Wu is readying a proposal that would limit allowable rent increases to 10 percent per year. The plan, which was floated Tuesday to an […]
FEATURED FACULTY Martine Haas AUTHOR Angie Basiouny Hybrid work is here to stay. That’s the prediction from Wharton management professor Martine Haas, who was asked to share what she thinks will be the biggest workplace trend of 2023. Although the mix of remote and in-person work can be challenging, she said, hybrid has emerged as […]
he U.S. housing market last year bore the brunt of higher mortgage rates that rode spiraling inflation in the broader economy, but that will change this year, according to Susan Wachter, Wharton professor of real estate and finance. “The Fed is using the housing market as a fulcrum to slow overall activity and get the inflation […]
In early 2020, Steven Paynter saw an opportunity. The principal at international architecture firm Gensler had spent a lot of time thinking about resiliency in architecture, focusing on making larger buildings out of wood rather than concrete and steel. But the pandemic, and the glut of empty office space it brought with it, presented a new opportunity […]
