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  • Focus On Business Leaders of the Year
    Focus On Business Leaders of the Year

    Hanlon creates innovative business by focusing on employees

    Savannah Donohue

    In 2004, seven years after Paul Hanlon sold his first company Folio Exhibits, his former employees asked him to start a new company. So he did.

  • Worcester County rising wages create complications

    Livia Gershon

    Wages in Worcester County have been slowly ticking up. Between the rising minimum wage and increasing competition, employers are finding they need to find ways to pay more.

  • Focus On Business Leaders of the Year
    Focus On Business Leaders of the Year

    Carroll never stops working, advocating

    Emily Micucci

    Frank Carroll never left Worcester, but in a vast career in business advocacy bringing him deep into the national political area and an abiding commitment to philanthropy, Carroll's reach extends far beyond city limits.

  • Focus On Business Leaders of the Year
    Focus On Business Leaders of the Year

    Colosi builds E.T.&L. by never saying no

    Savannah Donohue

    Jennie Lee Colosi runs the largest woman-owned company in Central Massachusetts, which is consistent with the company's history – E.T.& L. was founded by a husband and wife, with the wife owning more shares.

  • Page One Story
    Page One Story

    WBJ names the 2017 Business Leaders of the Year

    Peter Stanton

    This year, WBJ rethought its oldest and most established awards issue and added a new category: the WBJ Business Leader Hall of Fame.

  • Fresh beginnings

    Avidia Bank has a new location at 17 Pope St. in Hudson, which features digital displays, interactive screen technology and a social media wall. The new site has a financial center along with a community room for local groups.

  • The Rainmaker
    The Rainmaker

    Personalizing your great elevator pitch

    Ken Cook

    The elevator pitch – that pressured packed 30 seconds to 1 minute where your future success lies in someone else's hands: What to say and how to say it so the other party is at least interested in continuing the conversation.

  • Opinion
    Opinion

    Worcester needs commuter rail investments

    Timothy P. Murray

    As we come off the high of the Patriots capturing their fifth Super Bowl, I am reminded of the quote from one of my heroes, Vincent Lombardi, who said, “Inches make a champion.”

  • Focus On Business Leaders of the Year
    Focus On Business Leaders of the Year

    Strully grows NECC by running it like a traditional business

    Laura Finaldi

    Vincent Strully Jr. could have never predicted that the nonprofit he founded would eventually become one of the leading autism education and research centers in the world, employing more than 1,200, serving 680 students.

  • Advice
    Advice

    How personal happiness can lead to professional success

    Carla Mccall

    When we tackle a job and a career, we are often asked to sacrifice what we're most passionate about personally in order to punch the proverbial clock.

  • Businesses bristle at reform, but MassHealth changes go deep

    Emily Micucci

    With the U.S. healthcare system in limbo, political leaders are facing a stark certainty: The state Medicaid budget is unsustainable and reform is imperative.

  • Advice
    Advice

    101: Outside mentors

    Susan Shalhoub

    The benefits of mentoring across teams are well documented. But what about bringing in folks from the outside for mentoring your teams as a standard practice?

  • Advice
    Advice

    10 Things I know about... Security precautions

    Michelle Drolet

    10) Change your password

  • Focus On Business Leaders of the Year
    Focus On Business Leaders of the Year

    Saint-Gobain invests in its employees' communities

    Livia Gershon

    Saint-Gobain has established itself as a key supporter of nonprofits and community groups in Central Massachusetts.

  • Focus On Business Leaders of the Year
    Focus On Business Leaders of the Year

    Angelini connects the dots of Worcester's community

    Laura Finaldi

    Over the course of his 50 years in Worcester, Michael P. Angelini has had his hands in a lot of different ventures.

  • Briefing
    Briefing

    HeartToHub nonstop hurting for riders

    Savannah Donohue

    With ridership of the evening version of the HeartToHub train between Worcester and Boston suffering, Worcester and the MBTA are getting inventive to entice people to ride.

  • Editorial
    Editorial

    Does the state have $300M hidden in a mattress somewhere?

    We don't see Charlie Baker winning any Conservative of the Year awards at the next Republican National Convention, but it still was jarring to see the Massachusetts governor propose what amounted to a MassHealth bailout tax on companies of more than 10 employees.

  • Focus On Business Leaders of the Year
    Focus On Business Leaders of the Year

    Howard turned Shirley manufacturer into global firm

    Laura Finaldi

    Under Steve Howard's leadership, Bemis Associates has grown from a single facility in Shirley to an adhesive maker with a global presence that collaborates with brands like Nike and Under Armour.

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Today's Poll

Has your company increased its use of AI in the last year?
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Poll Description

Although used in technology like Google searches for decades, the buzz around the use of artificial intelligence in business has soared in the last year, largely due to advances from the company OpenAI and its AI system ChatGPT. Companies have explored using AI to automate more processes, although fears around the technology's use are rampant, too. For example, part of the Hollywood writers' strike centered around using AI to develop scripts, and part of the new union contract included guarantees against certain uses of AI in moviemaking and television.