We are excited to announce a new relationship between Babson College and the Puerto Rico Chamber of Commerce that provides opportunities to take advantage of Babson’s world-class programming and educational opportunities.

Babson College is the No. 1 institution for entrepreneurship, preparing and empowering entrepreneurial leaders to navigate change, accommodate ambiguity, surmount complexity, and motivate teams in organizations of all types and sizes.

Babson College Executive Education designs and delivers open enrollment and custom programs for professionals and companies looking to succeed in today’s rapidly evolving business environment. The College’s F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business grants highly ranked graduate degrees that provide students with a deep, functional business knowledge, in addition to an entrepreneurial mindset.

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As we look ahead this year, it is important to pause and reflect on the important milestones the U.S. Food and Drug Administration reached in 2020 to help strengthen the public health. Among those milestones is the work the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) accomplished in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, while keeping up with the Center’s ongoing work and continuing to bring a growing portfolio of innovative devices to patients. Most notably, the FDA approved, cleared, or authorized (“authorized”) a record high of 132 novel medical devices in 2020, surpassing the 40-year high mark we set in 2018 and capping off 10 years of progress. It is a big leap from the 29 novel devices we authorized a decade ago, in 2010.

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On Wednesday, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation hosted the latest episode of the Path Forward series designed to help business and community leaders find the answers they need to execute a responsible reopening strategy and plan for a post-pandemic world.

In this week's episode, U.S. Chamber president Suzanne Clark sat down with COVID-19 Genomics UK Consortium director Sharon Peacock and Harvard Medical School's Dr. Jonathan Li to discuss why the virus is mutating, what the variants that have been discovered in the UK and South Africa mean for infection rates, and how we can ensure tests, therapeutics and vaccines remain effective. Dr. Li also shared findings from a patient in Boston who offered “surprising clues” to the origins of coronavirus variants.

As a small business owner, you want to engage with your customers and participate in local conversations. Social media allows you to do this quickly and easily. After all, according to Sprout Social, 3.6 billion people use social media globally, and 57% of consumers follow businesses because they want to learn about new products or services.

The U.S. Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) is providing an important lifeline to help keep millions of small businesses open and their workers employed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Many borrowers will have these loans forgiven; eligibility for forgiveness requires using the loan for qualifying purposes (like payroll costs, mortgage interest payments, rent, and utilities) within a specified amount of time. Ordinarily, a forgiven loan qualifies as income. However, Congress chose to exempt forgiven PPP loans from federal income taxation. Many states, however, remain on track to tax them by either treating forgiven loans as taxable income, denying the deduction for expenses paid for using forgiven loans, or both. The map and table below show states’ tax treatment of forgiven PPP loans.

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Los mercados de valores de Estados Unidos terminaron la semana con resultados mixtos, ya que el plan de estímulo “Bazooka” de $1.9 billones ha forzado una venta masiva de bonos del Tesoro de Estados Unidos por la preocupación de que la inflación surgirá por medio de la financiación del estímulo.

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In my new book, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster, I talk about the inventions we need to get to zero, like new ways of storing electricity and making steel. We founded Breakthrough Energy to help accelerate that innovation.

But innovation means more than inventing new things. It’s also a matter of developing new policies so we can demonstrate and deploy those inventions in the market as fast as possible.

Black women have made significant contributions to medicine and public health but all too often, their stories are overlooked and forgotten. Today, we’re honoring the life of Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler, a pioneer in our country’s medical history as the first Black woman to earn a medical degree in the United States, back in the 1860s.   

INprende ha lanzado un nuevo programa llamado Talento IN, en el cual podrás desarrollarte profesionalmente para acercarte a las realidades del mundo laboral.

Este programa es libre de costo y está abierto tanto personas desempleadas como para aquellos que deseen fortalecer destrezas esenciales. 

 

Tienes hasta el 19 de marzo para solicitar

Join the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) for a panel discussion with Black business owners as they share their small business stories and how they pivoted during the pandemic and utilized SBA’s critical financial lifelines.

Si eres productor de alimentos tienes la oportunidad de solicitar al programa de World Central Kitchen que otorga subvenciones de hasta $20,000 dólares (Q155,000), oportunidad de capacitaciones y voluntariado. 

¡Tienes hasta el 19 de marzo para solicitar!