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 […]
Many of the most prominent office developers in the U.S. are shifting gears, looking to buy or build real estate that isn’t office. Boston Properties Inc. is planning to develop 2,000 residential units up and down the East Coast. The firm, which owns more U.S. office space than any other publicly traded company, also is developing […]
The state’s largest startup accelerator is opening its doors to tech workers who have been recently laid off and are interested in giving entrepreneurship a shot. MassChallenge CEO Cait Brumme said in an interview last week that her team has been watching the day-by-day announcements around downsizings within the tech sector, which in recent weeks have impacted thousands […]
Most of them develop drugs. One of them imports and sells fossil fuels. Another one sells sand. The 20 Massachusetts-based companies with the largest stock gains over the course of 2022 (as of Friday, Dec. 16) span a range of industries. But, as is the case in most years, the majority are small biotech companies […]
By Hannah Green – Inno Reporter December 07, 2022, 09:54am EST Updated 12/07/2022 2:07 pm For self-described “space nerds” like Mari Anne Snow and Yupeng Chen, being approached by NASA to fund an in-space manufacturing project of their company’s technology was a thrilling moment. “You can imagine, every day we pinch ourselves and go, is this really happening?” Snow said. […]
After about a decade in the role, Emily Reichert has left her role at the helm of one of the largest climate-tech startup incubators in North America. Reichert confirmed on Thursday she stepped down as CEO of Somerville-based Greentown Labs. Her last day was Dec. 5. Greentown Labs published the news on its website Monday, but […]
When the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first gene therapy for hemophilia B on Tuesday, it was a win not only for CSL Behring, which owns the rights to the drug, but for Lexington’s UniQure NV. UniQure (Nasdaq: QURE) originally developed the drug, now called Hemgenix, and licensed it to CSL back in 2021. […]
While there is no single answer, one strategy to reduce the racial wealth gap is to motivate more Black people to found technology companies in targeted market sectors. Jeff Bussgang, a partner at Flybridge Capital Partners and professor at Harvard Business School, stresses the importance of innovation waves — emerging industries that tend to attract […]
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. On a summer day last year, a group of real estate tech executives gathered at a conference hall in Nashville to boast about one of their company’s signature products: software that uses a mysterious algorithm […]
Inflation and fast-rising interest rates are taking their toll on commercial real estate transactions in Greater Boston. Real estate investors bought $4.6 billion in commercial properties in the Boston metro area in the third quarter, a 27% decline from the same three-month period in 2021, according to new data from MSCI Real Assets. It’s only […]
