Archive for April 2023

The grand prize winners at this year’s Harvard Business School New Venture Competition are student teams building an automated hair braider for Black hair and supporting a pipeline of Black college students pursuing careers in health sciences. Read More

The networking group convened a group of nominators to recommend culturally diverse men who have distinguished themselves in various sectors. Read More

More than 10 years after the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission was established with the goal of reigning in excessive cost growth in the state’s health care industry, some lawmakers say it’s time to revisit the agency’s authority, filing bills that would broaden its regulatory power. Read More

Over the course of several days of voting, each of the four remaining companies left in our bracket racked up more and more votes, and which was in the lead shifted constantly. All told, more than 9,000 votes were cast in the penultimate round. Read More

In the wake of Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse last month, new scrutiny has been placed on the U.S. banking system, and its exposure to commercial real estate loans in particular is under the microscope. Read More

The Business Journal tracked 30 tech companies based in Massachusetts or with local operations in the state that reduced their teams in the first quarter. Read More

Good morning! Here are the 5 things you need to know in Boston business news to start your busy business day, plus a sure sign of hope from the Red Sox. Read More

The Red Sox have had hit every high and low in the past five seasons: a World Series win and two last-place finishes. Those wins haven’t come cheap: the Sox are one of three teams to spend more than $1 million per win during that time, according to a Business Journal analysis. Read More