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Should Massachusetts lift its net-metering cap to help encourage wider adoption of solar energy?
Centage Corp. of Natick achieved Microsoft’s Application Development Gold Competency. Centage provides budgeting and forecasting software for small and mid-sized businesses.
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.
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.
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.
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.
(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.
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?
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.
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.
These Central Massachusetts businesses filed incorporation papers with the Massachusetts Secretary of State's Office from March 16-31, 2015.
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.
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, such as yoga and acupuncture, is catching on, with many consumers using some form of those types of therapies with traditional treatments.
KNOW ETHICAL LIMITS ON USE OF DRONESOur Page One story in the June 8 issue (Drones take flight in business
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.
Massachusetts has the second smallest percentage of family-owned businesses in the country, according to an OnDeck analysis of the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2023 Annual Business Survey. The analysis showed 21.87% of Massachusetts businesses are family-owned.
The power of family-owned operations is found in the numbers. Research performed by Family Enterprise USA reports 74% of family-owned businesses have been operating for more than 30 years.
Even when families don’t work together running a business, many professionals hope to see their children following in their career footsteps, creating a lineage of those in the same profession and fostering the camaraderie that comes with.
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