Business & Economic Development
Business & Economic Development
A Seeming Disconnect By Jean M. Deliso Have you wondered how the S&P 500 stock-market index has been trading at near all-time highs when, in the second quarter, S&P 500 […]
Shared Expertise Empower Retirement and Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. (MassMutual) announced they have entered into a definitive agreement for Empower to acquire the MassMutual retirement-plan business. The acquisition will […]
Company Milestones It was March 1850. Millard Fillmore was still working through his first 100 days in office as the thirteenth President of the United States — although no one […]
The Future of Work When businesses sent employees home in mid-March, many thought it would be for just a few weeks. Instead, as the pandemic lingered, weeks stretched into months, […]
Small Steps for Big Wins By Sarah Rose Stack Work-life balance in 2020 has been different, to say the least. And many people have unexpectedly found themselves in a new […]
In the Right Mold Back in mid-March, Pia Kumar recalls, at the height of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a good deal of absenteeism at the […]
Critical Tools As women continue to experience the devastating impact of unemployment due to COVID-19, representing close to 60% of all lost jobs this spring, the food-service, hospitality, retail, and […]
The Shape of Things to Come Mark Proshan says predicting what’s coming next in his business — office furniture and design — has always been a difficult assignment. But now […]
Views from a Distance In the middle of March, employees of companies across Massachusetts — and many other regions of the U.S. — suddenly began working at home. In some […]
Engineering Change As recently as last year, Ashley Sullivan didn’t expect to one day sit in the president’s chair at O’Reilly, Talbot & Okun — but that was OK, since […]
Bringing the Past to Life By Laura Grant In 1917, Miriam Kirkaldy landed on the shores of Ellis Island seeking to create a new life for herself. Despite the discrimination […]
Shifting Lanes For years, people have been aware — at least vaguely — of the benefits of electric cars, especially energy conservation and savings on gasoline. But according to at […]
Road Game Editor’s Note: This is the third installment of a new series for BusinessWest — car reviews of a sort. These are first-person looks, and some commentary, about some […]
Little Change in the Forecast ‘More of the same.’ For the past several years now, that’s essentially what most economists have been saying when asked about what to expect next […]
Higher Ground The cannabis industry is in full swing in Massachusetts, with about three dozen dispensaries currently selling products for recreational and medicinal use — about a third of them […]
