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The Power 100 edition is an annual report on how power is shared and expended in Central Massachusetts each year, as told through the 100 people who are most effectively wielding their influence, with a special focus on those creating change and bringing new ideas to the forefront.
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State requiring health insurers to curb increases to deductibles and copays next year
May 16, 2025The Division of Insurance flexed its new authority under a 2025 law giving officials heightened scrutiny over health insurance costs.
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Snow contractors look for relief from liability issues
May 16, 2025"If a janitor were to come outside and throw a bucket of water with no snow prep present — if it froze and someone slipped, we're going to be held responsible for the issue," McDuff said.
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The Insiders 2025: Hank Stolz
Updated: 7 hours agoStory by Satya Mitra, CEO of The Guru Tax & Financial Services
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The Insiders 2025: Michaelangelo Mangual
Updated: 7 hours agoStory by Joseph Corrazini, vice president for government and community affairs at Clark University
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The Insiders 2025: Karen Pelletier
Updated: 7 hours agoStory by Che Anderson, assistant vice chancellor at UMass Chan Medical School
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The Insiders 2025: John Erwin
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The Insiders 2025: Patty Eppinger
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2025 Power 100: Pete Dunn
Updated: 7 hours agoAs head of GWCF, he leads distribution of the funds from the third-largest grantmaking foundation in Central Massachusetts, as it has more than $205 million in assets.
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2025 Power 100: Joshua Croke
Updated: 7 hours agoCroke has established themselves as not only a safe-space maker for the LGBTQ+ community, but as a leader for municipal change.
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2025 Power 100: Liz Hamilton
Updated: 7 hours agoShe leads the 136-year-old nonprofit by centering partnership and empathy as she works to grow its programming, which reaches 8,000 youth annually.
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2025 Power 100: Diane Gould
Updated: 7 hours agoAfter joining Advocates more than 40 years ago as a program manager, Gould assumed her leading role as CEO in 2013 and has worked to expand the nonprofit’s reach to now serve more than 40,000 individuals with development disabilities, brain injuries, and mental health challenges in Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
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2025 Power 100: Susan Gentili
Updated: 7 hours agoSince stepping into her CEO position at SMOC in 2021, Gentili has set all systems go to provide supportive services and housing assistance to those whose needs have fallen through the cracks.
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2025 Power 100: Debbie Hall
Updated: 7 hours agoWorking to help eliminate racism and empowering women are two monumental lifts, but Hall is up to the task.
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2025 Power 100: Grace Wang
Updated: 7 hours agoWang leads WPI, a high-profile STEM-focused research university with a $631-million endowment.
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2025 Power 100: Barry Maloney
Updated: 7 hours agoMaloney has led Worcester State since July 2011, and he’s now the second longest-serving president of the 29 public colleges and universities in Massachusetts.
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2025 Power 100: Vincent Rougeau
Updated: 6 hours agoRaised in a family with deep Catholic roots, Rougeau has spent his entire career working for institutions sharing the values of Holy Cross.
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2025 Power 100: Luis Pedraja
Updated: 7 hours agoAs the leader of Central Massachusetts’ largest community college and third largest higher educational institution, Pedraja plays a key role in making sure the region’s workforce of tomorrow is prepared for the future ahead.
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2025 Power 100: Donna Hodge
Updated: 7 hours agoHodge is the first female president of Fitchburg State, a public regional institution with 6,000 full- and part-time students across 30 undergraduate and 22 graduate programs
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2025 Power 100: Marlina Duncan
Updated: 7 hours agoThroughout her four years at UMass Chan, Duncan has focused on affirming that diversity, equity, and inclusion are not merely add-ons for the university, but foundational tenets on which it educates, delivers care, and conducts research.
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2025 Power 100: David Fithian
Updated: 7 hours agoAmid the federal government’s crackdown on immigration, Fithian quickly made himself a leading voice among institutions of higher education, making his support for his international students clear and adding Clark to the amicus brief in American Association of University Professors v. Rubio, a federal case contesting the government’s visa revocation and detention of students.
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2025 Power 100: Bhaskar Panigrahi
Updated: 7 hours agoPanigrahi leads the charge of ConnectM, which in August was named the second-fastest growing company in Central Massachusetts and the 104th in the nation in Inc. magazine's list of the 5,000 fastest-growing companies
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2025 Power 100: Girish Navani
Updated: 7 hours agoGirish leads the charge in both healthcare IT innovation and growth in Central Massachusetts.
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Book of Lists 2024
Worcester Business Journal's annual Book of Lists is filled cover-to-cover with pure market intelligence on significant businesses and players in the Central Massachusetts economy and community. The 45 lists in this 2024 edition highlight the top companies and professionals in sectors including banking & finance, real estate, manufacturing, health care, education, nonprofits, hospitality, and professionals services. This year's edition even includes three lists never previously published.
