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SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Cosi, the Boston-based sandwich chain renowned for its flatbread sandwiches, filed for bankruptcy in a Boston courtroom. Cosi operated 74 company-owned restaurants and 31 franchised restaurants in 15 states at the time of filing. Fitch based its findings on a study of 30 recent retail bankruptcy cases involving a total of $10.5

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OCTOBER 22, 2020

That’s a figure Webster said she found hard to believe, but Xiao said that’s because she does most of her dining Boston — where phones’ prominence is a lot lower and digital channels are far more strongly developed. We really focused on what we can do to scale down the onboarding time and make this operational in a matter of days.”.

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DECEMBER 7, 2018

Drilling down a bit, in one study, by Oliver Wyman, 70 percent of college students who earn bachelor’s degrees borrow to get to their alma maters. The burden can be such, said the study, that student loan payments can exceed what it costs to lease a car or own a home. He noted that Gradifi is addressing a few different markets.

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JANUARY 24, 2017

The MIT Technology Review wrote that Mayo also has plans to conduct a similar study in China to determine if these features translate into other languages. The Mayo Clinic has linked some 13 vocal features in common from patients with heart disease.

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MARCH 31, 2017

office workers, a daily lunch break just doesn’t happen — a study found just one in five employees take a lunch break during the workday, and 28 percent rarely or never take a lunch break. The service is available in several major metropolitan areas, including Boston, New York, Washington, D.C., In fact, for millions of U.S.

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MAY 20, 2016

“The idea of curbside pickup is that shoppers are demanding the ability to get purchases however they want and wherever they want,” said Laura Kennedy, director of retail insights at Boston-based Kantar Retail. “A The data show that operating earnings from sales have declined by up to 25 percent as a result of a shift from in-store to online.

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JUNE 21, 2016

These programs — which include apps like GrubHub, Foodler, Favor, Seamless and DoorDash – operate independently of merchants, acting as middlemen between in-home consumers and various eateries. Recent market research performed by the NPD Group revealed that delivery traffic outside of pizza has expanded by 33 percent since 2012.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2019

That’s the only way the business can ultimately continue to create value for its customers, create jobs for people, serve the ecosystem in which it operates and provide tax revenues. It has also spurred other businesses to follow its lead, irrespective of whether Amazon is even a relevant player in the ecosystem in which it operates.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Emma Nutt, born in 1860 in a small town in Maine, was hired by Alexander Graham Bell in 1878 to be the world’s first female telephone switchboard operator. She stayed with Bell and the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company for more than 30 years until her retirement. At the end of her three-decade-plus career, about 25 percent of the U.S.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2018

That curiosity was piqued by my walks to the office when I am in town (I live in Beacon Hill in Boston) and my mental counts of the number of Amazon boxes I see out on trash day. The consumer spending share gap between Walmart, the biggest retailer by market cap, and the world’s largest digital retailer is being narrowed by three things.

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JULY 27, 2016

The surprise crash sparked tremors industrywide, crashed the stock market, triggered other defaults and generally devastated the entire financial services sector. In fact, well over half, 59%, predicted a sharp downside to a Brexit vote, with serious impediments to Europe’s common market.). None of this will be easy.

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Jeff For Banks

APRIL 10, 2015

At least we are not in Boston. A New Year of Volatility 2015 ushered in a whole new season of volatility in the bond and stock markets. She acknowledged studies that suggest that future GDP growth will also be painfully slow due to changing demographics and low productivity. We need a change of seasons!

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Reducing technology costs and local market savvy can enable community banks to become equal competitors in the mobile and digital footrace, but they’ll need to begin taking steps soon and planning strategically. Indeed, some studies indicate that consumer confidence in the security of any online financial transaction could be falling.

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MARCH 14, 2016

We’ve been studying what makes platforms ignite , and why they often fail, for more than a decade. When anyone talks about two-sided markets, two-sided networks, platforms or the sharing economy, they are really talking about multisided businesses. Why New Mobile and IoT Operating Systems Will Mainly Fizzle. Not so good.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2020

In banking, collaboration — between the traditional players like banks and the tech savvy FinTechs bringing a slew of new apps to market — is key. 56 percent of consumers would like more control over their own digital data, according to studies. the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston said, “To date, U.S. In the U.S.,

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CB Insights

AUGUST 2, 2018

US consumers aged 18+ make an average of 70 payments per month, with debit cards accounting for 32% of those purchases, according to a 2017 study by the Boston Fed. PayPal subsidiary Venmo’s forthcoming Venmo Card operates in a similar fashion. Rumor: Klarna is expanding into new markets, with new products.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The Popular Bank Associate Trainee Program is a select, 10-month rotational program for top-tier recent college graduates that exposes trainees to the diverse lines of the bank’s businesses, operations, policies and practices. Did the program specifically relate to, or draw from, what you studied in college? Meet Katia.

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CB Insights

MARCH 27, 2019

Its market cap seemed unaffected until July 2018, when Facebook lost around 20% of its value in one day off of news of slowing user growth. is a Boston-based startup that verifies government-issued IDs for third-party businesses. Table of contents. In the last few years, Facebook has been in the spotlight for a myriad of controversies.

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CB Insights

MAY 10, 2018

Before Bruce Doolin Henderson opened the doors of Boston Consulting Group on July 1, 1963, the concept of “competition” barely existed in American business culture, let alone the concept of strategy. Expertise: An experienced operator’s perspective on a problem and the different ways that it can be solved.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Fall has arrived in Boston and we are sizzling. Witness the power of platforms on top of platforms operating at scale. It’s a perfect case study – happening in real time – of how platforms use their scale on both sides to enter new markets – drivers and consumers – and monetize the value of their platform.

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APRIL 24, 2018

Retailers are leveraging technology, such as artificial intelligence and augmented reality, to enhance operational visibility and personalize their customer service, a new necessity in fast-changing and demanding consumer market. “We’re in a test-and-learn phase as we consider what other investment routes we should explore.

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OCTOBER 20, 2015

Some studies estimate that there are 28 million small businesses in the U.S., The key is to understand the businesses’ needs in order to upsell and cross-sell effectively through targeted marketing and promotions. representing more than $6 trillion in revenue. However, revenue is just one part of the equation.

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APRIL 4, 2016

Six years and an expanding inventory of cars and price points later, Uber’s platform has a market cap of $70 billion, more than 1 million drivers across 400 cities worldwide who’ve delivered a 1 billion rides – and the first instance of what we now call “invisible” payments in the offline world. And monetize. And the more money they make.

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CB Insights

JULY 23, 2020

However, in the US, 2 out of 3 workers still feel uncomfortable returning to the workplace, according to a Qualtrics study. While still relatively new, biometric technology is a growing market , and its advantages are driving increased adoption. Biometrics also pose the challenge of potential bias.

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CB Insights

JUNE 14, 2018

T echnology trends and market needs are pushing companies to set their sights on the residential real estate and construction industry. Now, startups and tech giants are getting in the mix, trying to fix the ways the real estate industry designs, builds, and operates. RESEARCH BRIEFING: THE FUTURE OF HOUSING.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

But a few common threads do emerge, such as an inability to generate sustainable revenue, bad product-market fit, losing to competitors, and (of course) simply running out of money. Australian music streaming company Guvera has reportedly stopped operating, with its co-founder and biggest financial backer walking away from the project.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2019

The How We Will Pay study, done in collaboration with Visa and published last fall, made this point quite vividly. The consumers we studied in the How We Will Pay survey want the ability to buy things while doing other things: cooking, cleaning, watching the kids, watching TV, commuting, working, traveling. Of those customers, 8.9

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Fresco’s head of community marketing, Johnathan Hamiter, began sending employees private Slack messages saying funding seemed “pretty bleak” and encouraging them to look for other jobs. Unfortunately, we were not able to find our place in the market. But we just didn’t feel as confident in that market.”. Around 4 p.m.,

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