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  • Accolades & Honors

    Centage Corp. of Natick achieved Microsoft’s Application Development Gold Competency. Centage provides budgeting and forecasting software for small and mid-sized businesses.

  • Photo Finish
    Photo Finish

    Photo Finish

  • Advice
    Advice

    101: Managing millennials

    Susan Shalhoub Special To The Worcester Business Journal

    Managing millennials — those born between 1980 and 2000, or 1981 to 1999, depending on who's counting — can mean overlooking the sometimes-negative “Gen Y” stereotypes and perhaps modifying your management style to forge better collaborations.

  • Regional Focus: Worcester
    Regional Focus: Worcester

    Empty nesters help boost condo sales in and around Worcester

    Sam Bonacci

    In the midst of struggling condo sales statewide, Worcester County is bucking the trend with empty nesters bolstering the residential segment that has traditionally been known as supporting first-time home buyers.

  • Shop Talk
    Shop Talk

    The behavior behind the breaches

    Rick Saia

    Prelert, based in Framingham, focuses on the “behavioral analytics” behind data, so the IT department can more easily uncover what it needs to know about potential operational and security risks — then act quickly, before anyone notices. The company is the creation of Mark Jaffe, a serial software entrepreneur.

  • Fresh Beginnings

    It’s About Time, a mobile dry cleaning company from Dudley, is opening a storefront at 40 Hamilton St., Southbridge, on July 1. Owner Chris Treadwell will continue to operate the mobile service as well.

  • Page One Story
    Page One Story

    Downtown by foot and wheels: A help for business in Worcester?

    Sam Bonacci

    (From the June 22 print edition) Worcester is pushing a comprehensive approach in its transportation infrastructure - especially downtown - one that embraces a combination of walking, biking and driving. And city officials see that as a potential boost for downtown businesses.

  • Inspiration and Innovation
    Inspiration and Innovation

    The four tests that can take your idea from fantasy to reality

    Jeff Schiebe

    All too often, entrepreneurs move quickly to spend precious resources that they don't have to launch a product they believe is perfect into a market they're convinced is huge. And they do this without doing much, if any, market research.But what should you do with that cool idea?

  • Real Deals

    Real Deals highlights recent commercial property transactions in Central Massachusetts.

  • Opinion
    Opinion

    PawSox to WooSox? Sure! But without public funding

    Victor MathesonSpecial To The Worcester Business Journal

    Earlier this year, the Worcester Sharks announced they would leave the DCU Center for California. With the hockey team's departure, Worcester is without a professional sports franchise for the first time in over 20 years.

  • Finding the right hire: HR pros share favorite job interview questions

    Sam Bonacci

    Interviewing prospective employees is as much an art as it is a science, and a process that only the most specialized professionals carry out on a regular basis. We asked three human resource professionals to share their three “go to” questions that they use when they interview candidates, which they use to help determine if a candidate is a good fit.

  • Incorporations
    Incorporations

    Incorporations

    These Central Massachusetts businesses filed incorporation papers with the Massachusetts Secretary of State's Office from March 16-31, 2015.

  • Regional Focus: Worcester
    Regional Focus: Worcester

    Out of Boston's shadow? Worcester charting own economic course

    Livia Gershon Special To The Worcester Business Journal

    When it comes to the kind of big, splashy headlines that Worcester's leaders like to cut out and frame, the last few months have been a bit of a bust for Worcester. But those who are authoring the city's next chapter believe Worcester is on the right track and moving out of Boston's shadow.

  • Domaleski, founder and builder of World Energy Solutions, embraces broad approach in latest venture

    Christina P. O'neill Special To The Worcester Business Journal

    Find a need and fill it. Find a product and improve it. Add value and make money doing it. That's Richard Domaleski's strategy for the company he founded in 2012, Worcester-based Mansfield Holdings Group LLC.

  • Alternative medicine meets the mainstream

    Emily Micucci

    Alternative medicine, such as yoga and acupuncture, is catching on, with many consumers using some form of those types of therapies with traditional treatments.

  • WBJ Talk Back

    KNOW ETHICAL LIMITS ON USE OF DRONESOur Page One story in the June 8 issue (Drones take flight in business

  • Briefing
    Briefing

    Transportation spending

    State transportation officials this month said it's going to take about $3 billion in fiscal year 2016 to keep Massachusetts up to speed with repairs, maintenance and upgrades. Here's what's behind their spending plan.

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Today's Poll

Have you or your business benefited from a movie being filmed in Central Massachusetts?
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Poll Description

A number of high-profile movies have filmed scenes in Worcester and Central Massachusetts, with notable films including "Black Pather: Wakanda Forever", "The Holdovers", "Free Guy", "American Hustle", and "Honest Thief". Central Massachusetts being used as a moviemaking location is, in part, due to the generous 25% film tax credit Massachusetts began offering in 2006. Since that time, a microindustry has popped up in Greater Worcester, with companies offering moviemaking services like supplying props. The tourism agency Discover Central Massachusetts wants to entice more visitors to the region to explore its moviemaking highlights.