One If by Land: The Night Boston Went to War
On April 18, 1775, lanterns, riders, church towers, boats, and alarm networks carried the news that British troops were moving.
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Bunker Hill: The Battle Britain Won—and Could Never Forget
The Battle of Bunker Hill proved that colonial forces could stand against British regulars, even in defeat.
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The Powder Alarm: The Revolution Before Lexington
Months before Lexington and Concord, a British move to secure gunpowder triggered a massive militia mobilization across Massachusetts.
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Paul Revere: The Man Behind the Midnight Ride
Paul Revere was far more than a rider: he was a silversmith, engraver, businessman, messenger, networker, and master of revolutionary communication.
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The Siege of Boston: Washington’s First Great Test
George Washington arrived outside Boston in 1775 to turn a collection of provincial forces into an army capable of confronting Britain.
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The Boston Tea Party: The Night the Harbor Became a Battlefield
On December 16, 1773, protesters destroyed East India Company tea in Boston Harbor and transformed a tax dispute into an imperial showdown.
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Gentlemen, this is no humbug.
“ Gentlemen, this is no humbug. Dr. John Collins Warren Founding Surgeon, Massachusetts General Hospital (1778–1856)
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When you look at the potential shift of more people driving offset by more telecommuting, a flex-pass might work.
“ When you look at the potential shift of more people driving offset by more telecommuting, a flex-pass might work. JK Jeff Karp President & Co-Founder, LAZ Parking View full profile →
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The Intolerable Acts: Britain’s Punishment of Boston
Britain answered the Tea Party by closing Boston’s port and tightening control over Massachusetts—measures that helped unite the colonies.
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1765: The Stamp Act Comes to Boston
A tax on printed materials helped turn Boston’s constitutional arguments into street politics and organized resistance.
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Clash of Empires: How a Global War Changed Boston Forever
The Seven Years’ War stretched from North America to Europe, the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia—and its aftermath pushed Boston toward revolution.
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The Liberty Tree: Where Boston Learned to Rebel
An elm near Boston Common became a gathering place, a political symbol, and one of revolutionary America’s most famous trees.
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The Boston Massacre: Five Deaths That Changed America
On March 5, 1770, a confrontation on King Street ended in gunfire and became one of the Revolution’s defining propaganda battles.
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The Sons of Liberty: Inside Boston’s Revolutionary Underground
The Sons of Liberty turned resistance into a network of merchants, artisans, printers, political organizers, and street power.
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The Occupation of Boston: When British Soldiers Took the Streets
In 1768, British troops arrived in Boston to enforce imperial authority, placing soldiers and civilians in a tense daily confrontation.
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Pirates, Privateers & the Dangerous Waters of Colonial Boston
Boston’s harbor connected the town to an Atlantic world of merchants, privateers, smugglers, sailors—and pirates.
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The Boston Smallpox Wars: The Experiment That Divided a City
During Boston’s 1721 smallpox epidemic, Cotton Mather and Zabdiel Boylston backed inoculation—and ignited a fierce public battle.
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The Great Fire of 1676: The Night Boston Burned
A devastating seventeenth-century fire exposed just how vulnerable early Boston was to flame, crowding, and wooden construction.
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King Philip’s War: The Conflict That Nearly Destroyed New England
The brutal 1675–1676 conflict transformed Native and colonial New England and left scars that shaped Boston’s future.
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John Winthrop’s Boston: The City Upon a Hill
John Winthrop’s famous vision helped shape Boston’s civic mythology—but the reality of Puritan Massachusetts was far more complicated.
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1630: The Ships That Brought Boston Into Being
In 1630, a Puritan migration transformed a small peninsula into the nucleus of one of English America’s most consequential towns.
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The Great Awakening: When Religion Shook Boston
The Great Awakening challenged established authority and turned sermons into mass events across eighteenth-century New England.
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What has to do with your ability to fall asleep is not caffeine. It’s having a clean conscience.
“ What has to do with your ability to fall asleep is not caffeine. It’s having a clean conscience. Bob Barr Former U.S. Congressman (GA-7) View full profile →
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The most valuable mentor I’ve ever had was the customer.
“ The most valuable mentor I’ve ever had was the customer. JD Jim Dougherty Founder, PetSmart & Petsense
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Before Boston: The World the Massachusett People Knew
Before Boston was a colonial town, this coast was home to Indigenous communities with deep political, economic, and spiritual ties to the land and sea.
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Defending the Constitution is always important.
“ Defending the Constitution is always important. Bob Barr Former U.S. Congressman (GA-7) View full profile →
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
“ Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations. Paul Cézanne Painter View full profile →
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What Makes a Business Acquisition Successful?
Acquisitions are among the most consequential decisions a company can make. Done well, they bring new capabilities, customers and talent in a single step.
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Building Companies for the Long Term
It is easier than ever to start a company and harder than ever to keep one going. Trends move fast, attention is short and the pressure to grow quickly is constant.
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The Future Vision of Boston Made
People often ask me where Boston Made is headed. The honest answer is that our direction is clearer than any single product or date. I want to share the principles that guide where we are going, so that readers, customers and partners understand what to expect from us.
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Understanding Corporate Ethics Programs
Every company has an ethics program, whether it writes one down or not. The program is simply the set of expectations people actually follow when no one is watching and the right answer is inconvenient.
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The Importance of Transparency in Corporate Leadership
Transparency is easy to talk about and hard to practice. It asks leaders to share bad news as readily as good news, to explain decisions they could simply announce and to admit when they got something wrong.
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How Parent Companies Support Subsidiary Growth
A parent company exists to make the businesses it owns stronger than they would be on their own. That is the whole test. If a subsidiary would do just as well without its parent, the structure is adding cost without adding value.
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What Investors Look For Before Investing
Over the years I have sat on both sides of the table — asking for support for my own ventures and helping other founders get ready to ask for theirs. The same lessons come up again and again.
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Creating an Investor Relations Website
An investor relations website is one of the clearest signals a company can send about how seriously it takes transparency. For public companies, a strong IR site is a core part of how they communicate with shareholders.
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Digital Transformation and the Modern Enterprise
Digital transformation is one of the most overused phrases in business, and one of the most misunderstood. It is not about buying software. It is about changing how a company works so that technology makes it faster, more reliable and closer to its customers.
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IPO vs. Direct Listing vs. Reverse Merger
Founders who dream about taking a company public usually picture one thing: the bell ringing on the day of an IPO. In reality, there is more than one road to the public markets, and each comes with its own costs, risks and obligations.
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Understanding Corporate Risk Management
Every company carries risk. The ones that last are the ones that decide, on purpose, which risks they will take, which they will avoid and which they will hand to someone else.
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How Intellectual Property Creates Long-Term Enterprise Value
Most of what a company is worth cannot be stacked on a shelf. It lives in names, ideas, code, designs, processes and relationships. That is intellectual property in the broad sense, and over a long enough horizon it is usually the part of a business that compounds the most.
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Why Strategic Partnerships Matter More Than Ever
No company grows alone. Every business I have built has depended on someone else’s skill, audience, infrastructure or trust. The question is never whether to work with partners.
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