Your company is throwing a cocktail shindig and you need someone to staff the check-in table for two hours. How do you fill that kind of extremely short-term gig?
A startup with roots on two local campuses, Jobble, has built …
MassChallenge, a Boston-based startup accelerator program, on Wednesday began accepting applications for its programs in Boston, Jerusalem, Israel and London, and expects to attract more applicants this year than ever before.
This is the first time MassChallenge has offered …
MIT has a novel idea. With its Start6 program, which concluded last week, the world-famous engineering school believes that it can teach its computer scientists entrepreneurship in just two weeks.
Led by engineering and computer science professor Anantha Chandrakasan, the …
While the Patriots and Seahawks were having it out on the field in Arizona, another battle was taking place in the ad world during TV time outs at this year’s Super Bowl.
Two opposing website builders, Squarespace and Wix, purchased …
As an ambitious entrepreneur, diving headfirst into a new market can be enticing, but be careful: Haphazardly jumping into a new project can quickly spell disaster.
Take Best Buy, for example. When it tried to enter foreign markets a …
Looking back on his extraordinary career of 35 years, NASCARdriving legend Richard Petty noted that during his first 20 years of racing, he had an excellent record of winning. For example, he won the Daytona 500 seven times!
But in …
Here’s a list of several Massachusetts-based technology startups and established companies that are hiring, based on our most recent reporting.
Early in my career, I was fortunate to work for companies that invested heavily in the training and development of their employees. I also invested a lot of time, money and effort on my own, reading business books and paying …
If you’re like me, business travel is a necessary but potentially frazzling experience.
Many things are out of your control, notably weather, flight scheduling, and checked baggage (only check bags if you absolutely must).
But some crises are within your …
Some companies such as Google receive 75,000 job applications in a week, according to HireRight, an employee background check provider based on Irvine, Calif.
To help identify the best applicant in the barrage of resumes, many employers now employ …
