Join us for the second installment of our new series, Wellness Reimagined, sponsored by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts.
09/19/2023
12:00pm - 2:00pm
Blue Cross Blue Shield
Join us for the BIMA's thought leadership panel around AI in the advertising industry and gain insights from Noor Naseer.
09/26/2023
5:30pm - 7:30pm
Hill Holliday
Corean Reynold was recently appointed the Director of Nightlife Economy for the City of Boston, where she brings a wealth of experience and a passion for fostering an equitable and thriving nightlife ecosystem.
10/04/2023
6:00pm - 7:30pm
Roundhead Brewing Company
Designed for mid-level managers and supervisors, this new certificate program addresses workplace well-being through unique, innovative, and actionable methods.
Join our Transformational DEI Certificate! Our comprehensive learning & development offerings are designed to connect and grow strong leaders who lead both inside and out of the office.
Our Women’s Leadership Program enables you to take your leadership to the next level by arming you with the most in-demand leadership toolkit.
Our Boston’s Future Leaders (BFL) program provides emerging leaders with a socially conscious and civically engaged leadership toolkit, as well as the opportunity to apply their knowledge through experiential assignments.
Our Economic Inclusion Committee provides strategic support around research, policies, and programs that are focused on building equal opportunity.
We are developing an ecosystem of corporations and partners with the influence and buying power to transform economic inclusion for minority business enterprises (MBEs).
The Fierce Urgency of Now Festival brings Boston’s diverse young professionals together with business leaders, organizations and their peers to build connection, advance careers and ignite positive change.
09/12/2023 -
09/16/2023
Greater Boston
City Awake empowers young professionals in a variety of ways that encourages these rising leaders to stay invested in the region’s future success.
BIMA (the Boston Interactive Media Association) serves a vibrant community of like-minded professionals from agencies, brands, publishers, and ad-tech companies with business interests in the New England market.
For more than 25 years, the Chamber’s Women’s Network has connected female professionals of all background and career levels. Today, our Women’s Network is the largest in New England, strengthening the professional networks of women each year.
The Massachusetts Apprentice Network convenes employers, training providers, and talent sources interested in developing and implementing apprenticeship programs in occupations across industries and statewide in fields such as tech, advanced manufacturing, healthcare, financial services, and more.
We support small business through public policy initiatives, events designed to connect small businesses in Greater Boston to their peers and established business leaders, professional development offerings, and free small business advising.
Explore our mission and values to better understand how we are leading the business community forward.
Our member directory is your resource to discover, connect, and engage with Boston’s businesses from every industry and sector.
Mayoral candidate Tito Jackson is urging caution before Boston makes a push to host Amazon’s second headquarters, but business experts said the city needs to be aggressive — and late-breaking reports suggest the online retail giant might be interested in moving here.
Amazon put out a call last week for cities to submit proposals to host the company’s new $5 billion headquarters, and according to a report in Bloomberg News, multiple senior Amazon executives have pushed for Boston as the new location. Amazon has denied the report.
Mayor Martin J. Walsh has said he’ll look at making a pitch — the deadline for initial proposals is Oct. 19 — but a City Hall spokeswoman said he had no comment on the article.
In an interview on Boston Herald Radio’s “Morning Meeting” show earlier in the day, before the Bloomberg article was posted, Jackson said he would want a thorough analysis of Amazon’s potential impact on Boston before pushing forward. He cited Boston’s failed Olympic bid and the collapse of IndyCar — both initially championed by Walsh — as reasons not to rush in. Amazon wants to build a massive 8 million-square-foot campus with up to 50,000 employees — a project that some local development experts said could be hard to accommodate in the densely developed Boston area.
“It is critical that we actually pull back, and not be moved by hype — the hype that got us into the Olympics, the hype that got us into the IndyCar race — and actually look at what’s best for the people of the city of Boston,” Jackson said. “I think that we need to measure several times before we need to cut. This has to be about the long term and not the short term reactions.”
But business leaders said Boston needs to move quickly and boldly to compete with the other cities.
“I think any mayor in America would not be doing his or her job by not looking seriously at this, I don’t think Boston should sit on the sidelines for this while we think about it,” said Boston Chamber of Commerce president Jim Rooney. “I’m not dismissing the need for some form of analysis but what I’m saying is Boston should compete, submit a proposal by the deadline and play it out, go into the game to win and not be hesitant.”
“I would hope (Jackson) is not trying to put the brakes on this effort to compete for Amazon, I don’t think people would or should take him seriously,” said Greg Sullivan, research director for the Pioneer Institute, a right-leaning think tank. “It sounds a lot like he’s saying it’s time to close the doors, we’re done, we’re full, we can’t handle anything else. If that’s the future of Boston and Massachusetts, then that’s a dire prediction.”
Read the original article on BostonHerald.com.
Popular Resources