There is something quietly sad about watching a furniture store get auctioned off piece by piece. A sofa that someone spent weeks choosing. A desk that sat in a showroom for months waiting for the right buyer. Staging artwork that dressed up windows in eight different Massachusetts towns. For Circle Furniture — a retailer that […]
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There is a moment in 2009 that, in hindsight, changed the trajectory of modern medicine. Derrick Rossi, a stem cell biologist at Harvard Medical School, was working late in his lab on a problem that had fascinated — and frustrated — scientists for decades: how to reprogram adult human cells to behave like embryonic stem
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Foxborough is better known for Gillette Stadium and Patriots game days than for headline-grabbing real estate deals. But a transaction that quietly closed this week is putting the town on the investment map for a very different reason. Foxmeadow Farm, a luxury apartment community at 29 Wall Street in the heart of Foxboro, has changed
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It started as a foreign policy headline. It has become a kitchen table conversation in millions of British homes. The military strikes on Iran that sent oil markets into a frenzy over the weekend have now worked their way through the global financial system and landed — quietly but firmly — in one of the
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Every year, LexisNexis publishes a list that the financial and scientific world tends to treat as a quiet but credible report card on global innovation. The Top 100 Global Innovators ranking does not measure press releases or funding rounds or how many times a CEO appeared on a podcast. It is built on something harder
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There is a company headquartered in Boston that manages more money than the GDP of every country on earth except the United States and China. It employs more than 78,000 people. It administers $17.5 trillion in assets and oversees $6.8 trillion in discretionary investments. It processes millions of trades every single day, manages retirement accounts
While most of the tech world spent the first weeks of 2026 announcing layoffs, Boston’s WHOOP went in the opposite direction. On March 4, the Kenmore Square-based wearable health company announced it would add more than 600 new employees over the course of the year — a move that would increase its current workforce of
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There is a number that has come to define ambition in the startup world: one billion dollars. The threshold that separates a promising company from a unicorn — a privately held startup valued at $1 billion or more. The term was coined in 2013 by venture capitalist Aileen Lee, who at the time identified just
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The FDA doesn’t always say no with a single word — sometimes it sends a letter. But for Watertown-based Disc Medicine, the Complete Response Letter it received this month for its lead drug bitopertin had the same effect: a hard stop that forced the company to rethink its near-term future, and to part ways with
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There is a stretch of Cambridge, Massachusetts — barely a square mile in size — that has quietly become the most consequential piece of real estate in global science. On any given morning, the Red Line deposits researchers, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and executives from companies like Moderna, Biogen, Google, and Takeda onto the same sidewalks.
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