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When Ed Manzi first got a taste of community banking decades ago, he knew he'd found his calling
The rise in forensic cases has grown David McLaren's accounting practice to where he is completing an addition to double the company's office space.
Kevin Condron wasn't born or raised in Worcester, but made the city his home after attending the College of the Holy Cross, as Worcester was similar to where he grew up in another old manufacturing city – Scranton, Pa. Condron has since made Worcester – his wife Claire's home city – his own.
Business leadership is moving toward gender equality through legislation, advocacy, investors pushing for the value of diversity, and pressure stemming from the #MeToo movement.
Atlantic Union College, a small Christian school in Lancaster struggling with finances and a lack of accreditation, will effectively close after the spring semester.
The Worcester Business Journal examined of the gender makeup of the 1,527 senior executives and board members at 75 prominent Central Massachusetts business organizations.
Last year's withdrawal of an $800,000 annual subsidy to Lancaster's Atlantic Union College from one of its major funding sources appears to have been the death knell for the struggling Seventh-day Adventist School. While the closure is stunning in many ways, it's hardly a surprise.
If a girl in high school wants to see an example of how a woman can be successful in science, she can look to Laurie Leshin. If anyone wants to feel like being a science nerd is a badge to wear proudly, the WPI president can help there, too.
Amy Lynn Chase loved that her Crompton Collective had taken on a life of its own, but she craved a traditional storefront on a bustling main street. She's found it in Hudson.
The accomplishments of this year's five Business Leaders of the Year and three WBJ Hall of Fame inductees are awe-inspiring and humbling.
The brain is an amazing thing. It fills in blanks for things we can't see, hear, or sometimes even understand.
WBJ has detailed the gender disparity in Central Mass. business leadership through The Boardroom Gap series. This issue's final part shows how the disparity can be decreased.
Back when Resource Management Inc. was a fledgling company trying to get off the ground with just a single full-time worker, Rachel Lopez was counted on to process its clients' payroll. She was all of 14 at the time.
We've all heard of the glass ceiling, an invisible barrier hindering women from rising within the ranks of corporate America.
Amjad Bahnassi came to Worcester in the early 1980s for a residency program at UMass Medical Center. Afterward, he started Behavioral Healthcare Services, a practice he still leads today.
Behind the events drawing Worcester's movers and shakers to dinner tables at venues across the city is a woman who got into the food business without any formal training in 1979.
Welcoming business consultants can bring lots of positives to save companies time and money.
On March 19, a judge ruled the showdown between the Massachusetts attorney general and the Town of Milton will go before the full Supreme Judicial Court in October. The dispute is over the MBTA Communities Act, which requires cities and towns near T service to adopt zoning allowing multifamily housing by right in certain areas. Some Massachusetts local governments, including Holden, have pushed back against the requirement, saying such zoning doesn't fit in their communities.
Gov. Maura Healey and Attorney General Andrea Campbell have cracked down on non-compliant communities with lawsuits and by reducing state funding, as part of a larger effort to address the statewide affordable housing crisis. The MBTA Communities Act is one of a handful of laws designed to increase housing construction by having at least one zoning district of reasonable size where multifamily housing is permitted.
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