Archive for September 2021

A major Massachusetts company is requiring its U.S. employees to be vaccinated after President Biden’s vaccine mandate impacting large employers last week. Read More

Just five months after emerging from stealth, solid tumor-focused startup Theseus Pharmaceuticals has filed to raise $100 million in an IPO. Read More

UMass Memorial Health Care will give a bonus to its entire 15,500-person workforce in recognition of its work during the pandemic. Read More

Data-center construction increased from 611.8 megawatts at the end of 2020 to 680.8 megawatts in the first half of 2021. Read More

North American ports saw surges in cargo volume in the first half of 2021, with the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach in California posting 44.3% and 38.5% growth, respectively, in total container volume from a year prior. Read More

Sina Esteky, a marketing professor at the Farmer School of Business at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, spoke with The Business Journals’ Hilary Burns about a new study that shows a placebo effect of improved academic performance when courses are associated with strong brands. Read More

Good morning, Boston. Here are the five things you need to know to start your workday, and a term I’d never heard before: “ghosting coasting.” Read More

As candidates for mayor of Boston tout plans for fare-free public transit before the end of the decade, a new report suggests the MBTA could be facing a "fiscal calamity" in just a few years, falling $1.25 billion short of its needs. 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 health care happenings. Read More

The long-planned redevelopment of the Edward J. Sullivan Courthouse in East Cambridge into office space with 48 affordable apartments is expected to be complete in 2023. Read More