Archive for February 2021

Last fall, faced with the pandemic-driven stop of business travel, Boston-based Lola.com launched a new fintech software product to salvage its business. Today, the company’s chief executive says the strategy is starting to pay off. Read More

While some in the life sciences industry create drugs and devices to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic, their colleagues are busy as ever raising money, testing new drugs, expanding facilities and more. Here’s The Petri Dish, a roundup of news that may get overlooked amid the influx of Greater Boston life sciences and health care happenings.…

The building will manufacture lymphoma drug Breyanzi, which the FDA approved earlier this year. Read More

“From a private sector experience, we’ve only had positives from investing in English classes for our workers,” said Christopher Sellew, sales manager at Devens-based Little Leaf Farms. Read More

HoldCo Asset Management reiterated that the $900 million offer undervalues Boston Private’s deposit franchise and wealth management business. The firm believes Boston Private CEO Anthony DeChellis has an “irreconcilable conflict of interest” because he will take on a senior executive role with Silicon Valley following the transaction, it said. Read More

Of $515 million in small-business grants approved by the Baker administration during the pandemic so far, nearly half have gone to woman-owned firms, according to an analysis of state-provided data. The Business Journal has created a searchable database of the grant recipients. Read More

Cambridge biotech Moderna is increasing its manufacturing capacity of the Covid-19 vaccine over the next two years: to 700 million doses in 2021, up from 600 million, and to 1.4 billion doses in 2022. The company is also exploring whether its coronavirus vaccine can be administered at a lower dose. Read More

When his father got lung cancer, Georges saw first-hand what depressing places hospitals could be. He also recognized they didn’t have to be that way. Read More

A condo project in Boston’s Jamaica Plain neighborhood would restore historic Doyle’s Cafe to its "former glory," according to its developers. Read More