This Week in Business

Shirley Leung of The Boston Globe is on the business beat looking at the growing number of jobless claims, the next round of PPP loans, the Trump/Harvard faceoff and the process of reopening.

edX CEO Anant Agarwal speaks on the future of online learning and their free course, which is teaching more than 150,000 doctors around the world how to use ventilators in the COVID-19 crisis.

MassMutual CEO Roger Crandall talks about the provider’s new program to give free life insurance for 140,000 healthcare workers on the frontlines in two New England states.

Shirley Leung of The Boston Globe is on the business beat looking at college fall plans, the plummeting of retail sales, the President’s CEO commission focused on reopening the economy and the impact of this all on hotels and tourism

Foundation for Business Equity Executive Director Glynn Lloyd and Amplify Latinx Co-Founder Betty Francisco talk about the even greater hardships felt in minority communities and a new emergency fund aimed at helping out.

Jim Rooney, CEO of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce talks about the impact—both short and potentially long term of the COVID-19 crisis.

Doug Banks is on the business beat looking at the ongoing surge in jobless claims, local companies hit hard by Covid-19, air traffic down more than 90% at Logan Airport, and Boston Sports Clubs members flexing legal muscle and getting results.

Eastern Bank Chair and CEO Bob Rivers describes efforts to provide small business loans to customers. Bankers are flying into uncharted territory. And you’ll get a taste of what it’s been like by listening to this segment.

Little Leaf Farms CEO Paul Sellew talks about his indoor lettuce farm where business is growing. Massachusetts residents are seeking locally grown greens as they stay at home.

Boston Business Journal Editor Doug Banks is on the road and on the business beat. We talk with him about the record high jobless claims, prospects for the economy, Robert Kraft’s plane retrieving more than a million masks in China and local companies repurposing their efforts to manufacture items desperately needed to fight COVID-19. Plus, a...

What would have been unthinkable one week ago is a new reality today. Shirley Leung, associate editor at The Boston Globe, and Doug Banks, editor of the Boston Business Journal, on how the novel coronavirus is affecting our lives, education, sports and the markets.

The new coronavirus’ impacts and the medical community’s response, with Shirley Leung of The Boston Globe and Doug Banks of the BBJ.

Boston Globe Associate Editor Shirley Leung and Boston Business Journal Editor Doug Banks on the opening of Pure Oasis, Massachusetts’ first minority-owned recreational pot shop and the first pot shop in Boston, and how their newspapers are approaching coverage during the coronavirus era.