Gary Higgins In its fifth annual Massachusetts Talent and Competitiveness Survey 2025, McKinsey & Co., working with the Massachusetts Business Roundtable, identified three main obstacles to doing business in the Commonwealth: high costs of doing business, high living expenses, and aging infrastructure. Business leaders met Thursday to review the survey results and discuss strategies for […]
Gary Higgins A stretch of Dudley Street in Dorchester’s Uphams Corner is among the areas that will see new opportunities for restaurants to serve alcohol. Dorchester is set to receive seven of the 21 new liquor licenses recently approved by the Boston Licensing Board as part of the city’s effort to expand alcohol service in […]
Gary Higgins / Boston Business Journal Marc Cadieux, president of Silicon Valley Bank’s commercial banking, acknowledges that the recent surge in AI funding and sky-high valuations might be creating a speculative bubble. While AI has been evolving for years, the rise of technologies like OpenAI’s ChatGPT has sparked massive investor enthusiasm and capital inflows, fueling […]
By Maya Shavit After both of her parents were laid off from work, Natalia Frois saw how immigrants face challenges head on with an entrepreneurial spirit. Now, the Brazilian immigrant and CEO of International Business Relations harnesses her parents’ drive into her own business consultant firm for small businesses and a Latino business network. “What I […]
Last year, Massachusetts was ranked among the top 15 states for business by CNBC. This year, the state dropped down from 14th to 24th. Each year, CNBC creates its America’s Top States for Business list by scoring all 50 states on 88 metrics in 10 broad categories of competitiveness. These include categories like access to capital, infrastructure, […]
Eastern Bank has provided a $14-million loan to the Arts & Business Council of Greater Boston for its landmark purchase of the Western Avenue Studios & Lofts in Lowell, MA. The WASL complex includes 240,000 square feet of space, 250 work-only artist studios, 50 live/work studios, and a brewery, café and gallery. The Arts & Business Council of […]
They’ve been referred to as millennials, Generation Y, or eighties babies. Whatever you choose to call them one fact still hold true: the demographic of people born from the early 1980’s the late 1990’s to currently represent 28.5 percent of the population. The 28.5 percentage means that they are the single largest group accounted for […]
I fancy myself quite the tech geek and I am continually looking for new apps to improve my productivity. So I decided to share the ones I love with my readers. Now before I share keep in mind what works for me may not work for you. Simple – Their tag line is “Replace your […]
Mayor of Providence, Angel Taveras, released an action plan for economic development on March 27th, 2013. In an open letter to his constituents, Taveras discusses the economic challenges Providence was faced with when he assumed office in 2011. “Unemployment was too high, private sector investment was too scarce and our housing market continued to suffer […]
