Archive for May 2020

Good morning, friends. Here are the five things you need to know to start your workday, plus advice on managing uncertainty, what Dr. Fauci said, and how a local professor’s blog about viruses went viral. Read More

Executives at some of Boston’s tech companies and VC firms —Flybridge Capital Partners, ezCater Inc. and Drift.com Inc. — gathered on a video call Tuesday to discuss how business owners can deal with uncertainty, mostly elaborating on their own experience as company leaders or company advisers. Read More

Legal Sea Foods isn’t the only local business headed to court over insurers’ refusal to pay out on business interruption policies. Business owners across Massachusetts have expressed frustration with insurers’ refusal to cover losses they’ve sustained because of the government-ordered closure of their businesses. The lawsuits come as Beacon Hill lawmakers have asked the state’s…

Experts agreed that the virus had forced innovation through wide-scale adoption of telehealth and moving care deeper into a virtual world. But they said the system still had some work to do to recover an element now missing from care: Human interaction. Read More

GreenLight Biosciences has closed an oversubscribed $17M investment round to join a crowded field of biotechs looking to develop a vaccine against the Covid-19 coronavirus. Read More

Gov. Charlie Baker is asking state lawmakers to authorize $1 billion in state spending related to the Covid-19 pandemic. Read More

“It’s been tough to be even at break-even and now you add this on top of it. It’s a little scary about what the outlook could be," the CEO of UMass Memorial Health Care said of the Central Massachusetts hospital system’s financial picture. Read More

Nearly 40 local hospitals now have access to a highly sought treatment for Covid-19. Read More

A group of roughly 100 Massachusetts restaurant owners and related hospitality businesses is pushing Gov. Charlie Baker to allow the industry to open at full capacity in June. Read More

One U.S. senator called the issue a "gut punch" for small businesses. Read More