Archive for January 2024
Five things: ChapStick’s Boston business connection, job cuts at Hubspot, Sage, and what’s going on
Here are the five things you need to know in Boston business news to start your Friday, including job cuts at HubSpot and Sage, the Brigham’s presidential exit, ChapStick’s local business connection and what’s going on today and this weekend. Read More
Read MoreHow venture philanthropy is changing the game in drug development
The Boston-based JDRF T1D Fund remains one of the more successful examples of the venture philanthropy business model pioneered by groups like the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation in the 1990s and the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research, founded in 2000. Read More
Read MoreMeet Simplisafe’s new head of tech, who cut her teeth at Google
Rebecca Zavin has been leading a team of over 300 engineers as chief technology officer at the Boston home-security startup since last October. Read More
Read MoreHealey urges employers to limit job postings requiring degrees
The governor signed an executive order calling on state government to only require a certain level of education for a job when "absolutely necessary," and called on the state’s employers to do the same. Read More
Read MoreBerkshire Bank looks to close more branches in coming years
Berkshire’s brand footprint is currently 96 branches across New England and New York with $12.4 billion in assets. Read More
Read MoreState to conduct cost probe of proposed Dana-Farber, Beth Israel deal
The Health Policy Commission will conduct a cost review of the proposed clinical affiliation between Dana-Farber Cancer Center and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, which includes building a new cancer hospital in the Longwood Medical Area. Read More
Read MoreHubSpot quietly conducts jobs cuts, mainly among content-design roles
Cambridge-based HubSpot has quietly conducted another round of layoffs — this time in content design roles. Here’s how many jobs were affected. Read More
Read MoreBizSpotlight: Complete Legal
L2 Services of Chicago, Boston, and New York, has Read More
Read MoreSage Therapeutics moves HQ, downsizes office space
Months after major layoffs at Sage Therapeutics Inc., the company is also making plans to cut its Cambridge office space by more than half. Read More
Read MoreAnalog Devices finds permanent CFO from Amazon Web Services
The new CFO of the Wilmington-based semiconductor firm is Richard Puccio, who led Amazon Web Services’ financial organization for almost three years. Read More
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