Archive for August 2021

Manny Lopes, CEO of East Boston Neighborhood Health Center, has announced he will leave nearly a three-decade tenure to join Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts as executive vice president of public markets and government relations. Read More

Boston Scientific Corp. (NYSE: BSX) has recalled about a decade’s worth of its Ingenio pacemakers, citing the risk that the products might permanently go into a backup setting called "safety mode" and lose their ability to pace properly. Read More

Boston-based e-commerce company Perch is leasing office space at 222 Berkeley St., the same building where DraftKings Inc. and Wayfair Inc. are headquartered. The unicorn company has 50 open positions, with plans to hire 150 people this year. Read More

After less than a year as president and dean of New England Law Boston, Scott Brown is stepping down from his position at the private law school. Read More

Fidelity Investments reported a one-third spike in assets under administration over the past year, reaching a new total of $11.1 trillion. Read More

In addition to addressing the backlog, the SBA is also looking at paving the way for larger loans. Read More

The number of SBA 7(a) loans to African American businesses decreased 35% in 2020, the biggest decrease of any race or ethnic group tracked by the federal agency. Read More

Opinion: Boston Scientific’s president of endoscopy writes that government policies have enabled the medtech giant to reinvest profits in multiple areas of innovation. "Patients cannot benefit from bets we don’t make. Read More

Good morning! It’s gonna be a scorcher. Here are the five things you need to know to start your busy business day, plus skinny houses, trillion-dollar bills, new startups, and NFTs are basically PDFs you’re overpaying for. Read More

This Tampa-based water-bottle company, which has a satellite office in Watertown, Mass. (naturally), has raised $30 million. It previously had raised more than $6 million at the end of 2020. Read More