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December 10, 2018
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Worcester's sports franchises have two years to prepare for the Pawtucket Red Sox

Zachary Comeau

Years before it even arrives in Worcester, the top Red Sox farm team is already gobbling up sponsorships and is sure to challenge existing Worcester teams for ticket sales.

  • Opinion
    Opinion

    Dual-tax rate hurts Worcester

    Alex Guardiola

    Since 1984, the city council has shifted a portion of the residential tax burden over to the business property tax payers. By doing so, it puts Worcester at a competitive disadvantage to its surrounding communities.

  • Shop Talk
    Shop Talk

    Insulet moving to Acton, switching CEOs

    Insulet, a manufacturer of the wearable OmniPod insulin system for diabetes patients, will move its worldwide headquarters in mid-December from Billerica to a $100-million Acton facility.

  • Editorial
    Editorial

    No room for error

    Worcester can support five sports franchises. They just have to be smart about it.

  • Opinion
    Opinion

    Why I know all of my staff's birthdays

    Renee Diaz

    For the past six Thanksgivings, I was exhausted around my family. Thanks to 26 people, that didn't happen this year.

  • Advice
    Advice

    The impact of online reviews

    Laura Dibenedetto

    Building a positive online reputation takes time, effort, and unfortunately can be damaged in minutes.

  • Advice
    Advice

    10 Things I Know About … Engaging the immigrant business community

    Take inventory of the communities and ethnic cultural neighborhoods your employees represent.

  • Advice
    Advice

    101: Peer learning

    Susan Shalhoub

    Business training sessions, whether for cybersecurity policy, new technology, sales practices or customer service, can be hosted by software companies, corporate leaders or outsourced experts.

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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.

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