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Boston’s Most Successful Female Founders — And What They Actually Built

Here is a number that should bother anyone who follows the startup world: in 2024, all-female founding teams received 2.1% of all venture capital deployed in the United States. Two percent. For context, that figure was 2.4% a decade ago. A full decade of “diversity initiatives,” panel discussions, and LinkedIn posts about closing the gender […]

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The Fall of Reebok: How Boston’s Most Iconic Sneaker Brand Went From Beating Nike to Fighting for Survival

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There is a photograph that captures better than any statistic what Reebok was at its peak. It is 1986. Michael Jordan has been wearing Air Jordans for two years. Nike is spending millions on advertising. And yet, on the shelves of sporting goods stores across America, the brand selling the most shoes is not Nike.

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The Untold Story of Moderna: From a Harvard Lab to the Arms of Billions

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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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The Secret History of Fidelity: How a Boston Lawyer Built the World’s Quiet Financial Giant

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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

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The Story of Wayfair: an E-commerce Giant born in Boston

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In Boston’s business landscape, few stories illustrate the transition from the “old economy” to the Big Data era better than Wayfair’s. What is now a giant dominating e-commerce for household goods, with billions in annual revenue and an imposing headquarters on Copley Place, began in the most pragmatic way possible: in a college dorm room

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