Archive for June 2021

The closing of the transaction, announced in December last year, comes a year after Boston Dynamics announced the commercial launch of Spot, its dog-like robot that can climb stairs, traverse rough terrain perform a variety of tasks. Read More

Opposition is mounting from lobbyists and advocacy groups representing four-year private colleges and universities already struggling to maintain enrollment before the Covid-19 pandemic hit. Read More

Eric Suher and his Iron Horse Entertainment Group have been cited $100,000 over labor law violation complaints filed with the Massachusetts Attorney General’s office. Read More

The move could be a signal the U.S. legal industry’s steady migration into Boston, which slowed during the pandemic, will start to pick up again. Read More

The higher education sector is waking up to cracks in the system that Pam Eddinger, president of Bunker Hill Community College in Boston, has been talking about for years. Read More

Organizing your company around the happiness of your employees just makes sense, not only from an employees retention perspective, but for a myriad other reasons. Read More

The group will oppose what it says is a multimillion-dollar campaign in Massachusetts by Uber, Lyft, DoorDash and other big technology companies to "undermine civil rights, wages, and benefits of Mass. workers." Read More

Headcount at Amazon, Walmart and other giants soared during the pandemic. That’s no surprise. But a new analysis of public company headcount data sheds light on how Covid-19 shaped jobs at some of the nation’s largest companies. Read More

The former CFO of Desktop Metal Inc., who held a key role in guiding the Burlington-based company through the reverse merger that made it a public company, earned approximately eight times the total pay of the CEO last year. Here’s how she did it. Read More

Cannabis advocates are suggesting a slower rollout of national cannabis reform, saying quick action nationwide could further disenfranchise Black and Brown communities and could bake in problems that could otherwise be avoided. Read More