Archive for July 2021

Opinion: For all the hardship the pandemic wrought on the restaurant industry, it made at least one thing easier for operators: selling alcohol off-premises. State and local governments must ensure that this valuable revenue stream remains open. Read More

Mike Salguero is the founder and CEO of ButcherBox, a Boston-based meat brand that delivers high quality, humanely raised meat to consumers across the country. He founded ButcherBox in 2015 as a hobby, but quickly solved the need to increase access to high-quality, humanely raised protein. 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.…

TikTok will hold a 20-event workshop series, including three national sessions and 17 regional sessions run in partnership with local business organizations, to help New England business owners grow their company on the social media platform. Read More

Good morning, Boston. Here are the 5 Things You Need to Know to start your day, plus CFOs of the year, hot cities, electric vehicles, Boston Calling and a class act stepping down from a longtime higher ed role. Read More

A Boston-based owner of 39 Planet Fitness gym locations across the area has acquired 11 more from a North Shore franchisee, with an opportunity to add 20 or more additional locations. Read More

A month before cannabis-license exclusivity is set to expire in Cambridge, state data shows that not a single equity applicant has made it through the city or state licensing process to open. Internal documents show that Cambridge officials themselves contributed to the delay. Read More

The state’s most expensive hospitals could face more scrutiny and tougher penalties for price growth under changes being considered by the state’s health care watchdog agency as it reassesses how it reins in spending. Read More

After three years in various director- and executive-level roles at protein degradation-focused Kymera Therapeutics (Nasdaq: KYMR), Nan Ji has left to co-found a new startup that he believes will expand the degradation field well beyond protein targets. Read More

How the two North Shore branches became part of a South Shore community bank is a bit of a winding road. But that road is coming to its end. Read More