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  • Focus On Family Business Awards
    Focus On Family Business Awards

    Provo stays strong during transitional times

    In the past 18 months, Provo has acquired two competing financial services practices, begun work on a 3,000-square-foot expansion of its property with an environmental friendly mindset and maintained 100-percent client retention.

  • Shop Talk
    Shop Talk

    Money, passion creating Worcester's creative hub

    Laura Marotta & Stacy Lord took a giant step toward bringing their vision of a collaborative Worcester artists space to life by buying the former Worcester Boys Club building on Ionic Avenue.

  • Accolades & Honors

    The latest awards and recognitions in Central Massachusetts.

  • Focus On Family Business Awards
    Focus On Family Business Awards

    Polar keeps Worcester on the map

    Founded 135 years ago as a whiskey and seltzer company, Polar Beverages has been innovating ever since Prohibition forced the Worcester manufacturer to switch to carbonated beverages.

  • Advice
    Advice

    101: Beyond onboarding

    Susan Shalhoub

    Onboarding new employees involves introductions, orientation, forms and office tours. But there some core tasks for a transition you or your managers may be overlooking.

  • Mount Carmel church to enter historic redevelopment debate

    Grant Welker

    As the demolition protection ends on Mount Carmel, another historic Worcester building enters the debate of preservation vs. teardown.

  • Focus On Family Business Awards
    Focus On Family Business Awards

    Monster Movers keeps growing

    For the second year in a row in 2016, Monster Movers was named to the Inc. 5000 of fastest growing companies, including being a top 20 fastest growing transportation firms in the United States.

  • Editorial
    Editorial

    What it takes to lead a college

    The pressure on all college presidents to forge a path to sustainable success is significant, and even more so for those leading private institutions.

  • Opinion
    Opinion

    The importance of talking about sexual assault

    Tracy Casey

    Since 2011, Anna Maria College has been raising awareness about sexual assault and helping our community break the silence.

  • WBJ announces Family Business Awards finalists

    More than just a handful of executives and employees bound by blood and marriage running a company or a nonprofit, true family businesses infuse their operations with the collective values and personalities of their families.

  • Focus On Family Business Awards
    Focus On Family Business Awards

    Putts & More focuses on work opportunities for disabled adults

    Looking for a place where they could provide steady employment for adult children with developmental disabilities, the Giammarinaros three years ago took over ownership of a two-year dormant miniature golf course and created a four-acre family entertainment center.

  • Focus On Family Business Awards
    Focus On Family Business Awards

    Atlas distributes world's best beer

    In the last four years, Atlas has grown its employee base from 170 to 225 – including having a 25-percent minority workforce – while being appointed to represent major beer brands in Central Massachusetts.

  • Advice
    Advice

    10 things I know about... Small business lending

    Sandie Cataldo

    If you are thinking about starting a business or obtaining capital for your small business, many organizations in Central Mass. can help.

  • Opinion
    Opinion

    Avoid the fiduciary rule

    Christine Beaudin And Robert B. Kuppenheimer

    Changes to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) were scheduled to take effect this month, although President Trump's executive order has postponed their implementation and required the U.S Department of Labor to revisit the rules.

  • Briefing
    Briefing

    Reliant acquisition would change nonprofit status

    Emily Micucci

    Reliant Medical Group's decision to be acquired by for-profit OptumHealth will change the physician network's tax status, allowing it to generate revenue for the cities and towns where it owns real estate.

  • Page One Story
    Page One Story

    Johnson leaves Becker with bigger endowment, smarter students

    Grant Welker

    Robert Johnson left Becker College after seven years to become the chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.

  • The Rainmaker
    The Rainmaker

    How to view and use advertising and PR

    Advertising and public relations – two important components in any company's positioning and sales efforts. So, how do you define them, how do they work together, and when is the best time to use them?

  • Focus On Family Business Awards
    Focus On Family Business Awards

    Almost 100 years in, IMA still flourishing

    In the last year, Insurance Marketing Agencies has purchased a specialty insurance agency to broaden its brand awareness and then rebranded the company with a new puzzle-piece logo that symbolizes its “coverage that fits” tagline.

  • More companies seeking employees with autism

    Emily Micucci

    Major companies in the past few years have launched hiring initiatives aimed at recruiting people with autism spectrum disorder, adapting the interview process and work environments to meet their needs.

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