Here is something worth sitting with for a moment. In 2025, Massachusetts startups raised $16.7 billion in venture capital. That is a 12% jump from 2024, the strongest gain since the pandemic. The state has more venture capital per capita than anywhere else in the country. And yet, by the standard metric everyone uses to […]
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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.
For months, it was one of the worst-kept secrets in Boston’s commercial real estate market. JPMorgan Chase had been quietly scouting a location to consolidate its four scattered downtown offices into a single, unified headquarters. The building everyone expected them to choose was South Station Tower — the 51-story glass skyscraper that opened last September
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Every March, Austin, Texas becomes the temporary capital of the global startup world. South by Southwest draws thousands of founders, investors, and technology executives from more than 100 countries, and the SXSW Pitch competition — now in its 18th year — has become one of the most watched startup showcases on the planet. Since 2009,
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The number that matters most right now is 11.5%. That is the average premium increase hitting Massachusetts residents who buy insurance through the state’s own marketplace in 2026 — and it is just the headline figure. Point32Health, one of the state’s largest insurers, is raising premiums for employers with more than 50 workers by between
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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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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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