Bog deal | Techies take a walk | Lab building loss
Boston Business Journal
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Welcome to the BBJ's LinkedIn Weekly Edition! We'll be off next week for the Thanksgiving holiday. Meanwhile, this is Digital Editor Jess Aloe bringing you the week's biggest business news, including a pre-Thanksgiving economic breakdown of cranberries.
A bog deal for Massachusetts
It's been 112 years since Marcus Urann made the world’s first-ever canned cranberry sauce in the town of Hanson. Love it or hate it, the jellied accoutrement is a mainstay at the Thanksgiving dinner table.?
Like canned cranberries, the cranberry industry as a whole was born in Massachusetts. While the Bay State has not been the national leader in production of the crop for the past few decades, it remains an economic force in Massachusetts, specifically in the southeastern portion of the state.
Getting excited for Thanksgiving dinner? Whet your appetite with Isabel Hart 's breakdown of the economic impact of cranberries.
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Help us recognize the innovators from all parts of the Greater Boston healthcare industry! Nominations for the 2025 Innovators in Healthcare are due Dec. 8. Submit them here.
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Here's what else happened this week
Suburban lab building poised to sell for a loss
A lab building in Burlington that traded for $103 million two years ago is back on the market, with expectations that it could sell at around a third of that price, if not lower. Here's what happened.
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Radiopharmaceuticals gets Big Pharma attention
诺华 ' interest in the hot area of radiopharmaceuticals is once again bringing it into contact with a Massachusetts company.?
Boston-based Ratio Therapeutics said on Monday that it signed an exclusive worldwide license and collaboration agreement with Novartis. Here's how much the deal is worth.
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Tech entrepreneurs take a walk
About once a month, a group of Boston founders, operators, investors, students and consultants convene at Data Point Capital, a venture capital firm on Newbury Street. The time tends to be 5 p.m. on a workday, but it's fluid: Entrepreneurial spirits know no banking hours.
For the following hour, these faces from startupland are laser-focused on their next mission: Go for a walk and talk to one another.
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