Archive for May 2021

Initial claims are now, more than a year into the pandemic, approaching the upper bounds of what constituted a particularly bad week immediately before Covid-19. Read More

Consumer goods maker Procter & Gamble, which owns South Boston razor maker Gillette, is spending more than $1 million in a new effort to increase LGBT inclusion in advertising. Read More

With frustrations mounting over PPP and other Covid-19 relief funding, experts say many businesses are missing out on potentially lucrative Employee Retention Credits. It’s an option now available even for employers that secured PPP loans. Read More

When it comes to working from home or a big raise, employees in a survey of prominent companies say it’s not even close. Read More

HubSpot offers free and paid tools for emerging startups and entrepreneurs to use to aid the growth of their companies. Read More

The One Bead program is multifaceted and always evolving, but it primarily focuses on three things: introducing students to a diverse array of community leaders; teaching students public-speaking skills, and letting them pitch an idea that could make a difference. Read More

The Business Journals’ Hilary Burns interviewed top administrators from Amherst, SUNY Albany and Towson to better understand strategies and mindsets that have helped them achieve better results for Black students. 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 recent Colonial Pipeline hack, which had a severe impact on the day-to-day lives of citizens across many states in the U.S., is evidence enough that the nation’s approach to cyberdefense needs improvement and urgently so. Read More

Many restaurants that were seeking relief from the Restaurant Revitalization Fund may be out of luck. The restaurant industry is already calling on Congress to provide more funding. Read More