Processing Your Payment

Please do not leave this page until complete. This can take a few moments.

March 5, 2018
Focus On Business Leaders of the Year

Manzi keeps the community in community banking

Livia Gershon

When Ed Manzi first got a taste of community banking decades ago, he knew he'd found his calling

  • Shop Talk
    Shop Talk

    The Sherlock Holmes for your stolen money

    Brad Kane

    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.

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

    Condron used his success to revitalize Worcester

    Grant Welker

    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.

  • Boardroom Gap: Financial & cultural pressures creating more gender diversity

    Grant Welker

    Business leadership is moving toward gender equality through legislation, advocacy, investors pushing for the value of diversity, and pressure stemming from the #MeToo movement.

  • Briefing
    Briefing

    Atlantic Union College in Lancaster to close

    Grant Welker

    Atlantic Union College, a small Christian school in Lancaster struggling with finances and a lack of accreditation, will effectively close after the spring semester.

  • Read the entire The Boardroom Gap series

    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.

  • Editorial
    Editorial

    Editorial: 135-acre campus for sale in Lancaster?

    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.

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

    Leshin has taken WPI to new heights

    Grant Welker

    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.

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

    The Queen of the Canal District expands east

    Sarah Connell

    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.

  • Page One Story
    Page One Story

    WBJ names its 2018 Hall of Famers, Business Leaders of the Year

    Brad Kane

    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 Rainmaker
    The Rainmaker

    In sales, don’t let your brain get ahead of you

    Ken Cook

    The brain is an amazing thing. It fills in blanks for things we can't see, hear, or sometimes even understand.

  • Editorial
    Editorial

    Now comes the hard part

    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.

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

    Lopez grew up in business, community advocacy

    Grant Welker

    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.

  • Opinion
    Opinion

    Viewpoint: Women of color need to break the concrete ceiling

    Melanie Bonsu

    We've all heard of the glass ceiling, an invisible barrier hindering women from rising within the ranks of corporate America.

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

    As his company grows, Bahnassi remains patient-focused

    Grant Welker

    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.

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

    Cotter turned a cafe into a catering powerhouse

    Emily Micucci

    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.

  • Advice
    Advice

    101: Hiring consultants

    Susan Shalhoub

    Welcoming business consultants can bring lots of positives to save companies time and money.

WBJ Web Partners

Today's Poll

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

UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester announced on Wednesday the opening of a new Health AI Assurance Laboratory, in partnership with Bedford non-for-profit research-and-development center MITRE. As artificial intelligence becomes more widely used in health care, the center is designed to provide validation for the use of the technology, to address concerns including technical robustness and safety, transparency, diversity and fairness, as well as societal and environmental well-being. The UMass Chan's center comes as more applications using AI are being developed for a wide variety of business applications, raising concerns about overreliance on the technology and its impact on employees.

More Information