If you want to understand where the American clean energy economy is heading, you don’t need to look at Washington or Silicon Valley. You need to look at a stretch of Greater Boston that runs from Somerville to Waltham, through Kendall Square and out toward Worcester. Massachusetts has quietly become the most concentrated clean energy […]
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Good news arrived in Massachusetts this week, and it came with an asterisk the size of a Middle East conflict. The Associated Industries of Massachusetts Business Confidence Index climbed to 52 in February — the first reading above the neutral threshold of 50 in a full year. For a state that has spent the better
For a company that has called South Boston home for more than 125 years, Gillette is not going quietly into its next chapter. It is going with a nearly billion-dollar construction crane and a nine-story building on the Fort Point Channel waterfront. Procter & Gamble’s Gillette division announced Tuesday that it plans to purchase the
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While most of Wall Street was still digesting the weekend business news, Vertex Pharmaceuticals dropped a clinical data release that sent its stock jumping more than 6% in premarket trading. The reason: povetacicept, the company’s experimental drug for a serious and poorly treated kidney disease, just hit its primary endpoint in a Phase 3 trial
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There is a number buried in the Federal Reserve’s latest consumer survey that deserves more attention than it is getting. The share of American workers who expect to voluntarily quit their jobs in the next twelve months has just hit a record low — dropping to 15.9%, the lowest reading since the New York Fed
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Every year, thousands of professionals make one of the most consequential financial decisions of their lives in Boston: whether to take a job offer, negotiate a raise, or make the leap from one sector to another. And every year, they navigate that decision with incomplete information — company-by-company data points, anecdotal comparisons from colleagues, and
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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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