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What is the nature of power? The Power 100 for 2025 provide their insights
Updated: May 19, 2025“Power is the ability to get people to listen to you, even when you're mostly just talking about beer.” - Sam Hendler, Hendler Family Brewing
Updated: May 19, 2025
2025 Power 100: Barry Maloney
Updated: May 19, 2025Maloney 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.
Updated: May 19, 2025
2025 Power 100: David Fithian
Updated: May 19, 2025Amid 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
Updated: May 19, 2025
2025 Power 100: Michael London
Updated: May 19, 2025London has mastered growing a tech company better than almost every other company in the U.S.
Updated: May 19, 2025
The Insiders: Who do Central Mass. power players say are the most influential people in the region?
Updated: May 19, 2025In February, WBJ asked the 400+ people who have ever been on a WBJ power list (Power 100, Power 50, Power Players) to vote for the professionals they believed are the most influential in the region. Nearly 600 votes were cast
Updated: May 19, 2025
2025 Power 100: Luis Pedraja
Updated: May 19, 2025As 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.
Updated: May 19, 2025
2025 Power 100: Dr. Cherise Hamblin
Updated: May 19, 2025As maternal morbidity rates continue to rise throughout the state, Hamblin has become one of the region’s most ardent advocates for the interrelated causes of addressing Black maternal health and diversifying healthcare professionals.
Updated: May 19, 2025
2025 Power 100: Grace Wang
Updated: May 19, 2025Wang leads WPI, a high-profile STEM-focused research university with a $631-million endowment.
Updated: May 19, 2025
2025 Power 100: Marlina Duncan
Updated: May 19, 2025Throughout 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.
Updated: May 19, 2025
2025 Power 100: Bob Eddy
Updated: May 19, 2025Today, Eddy serves as chairman of the board of directors at the National Retail Federation, as a director at Dick’s Sporting Goods, and on the College Advisory Board at Babson College, his alma mater.
Updated: May 19, 2025
Power 100: WBJ names the most influential professionals in 2025
Updated: May 19, 2025The 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
Updated: May 19, 2025
The Insiders 2025: John Erwin
Updated: May 19, 2025Story by Jon Weaver, CEO of Massachusetts Biomedical Initiatives
Updated: May 19, 2025
Nativity School of Worcester gifted $3M, renames boys division after co-founder
May 15, 2025Nativity School of Worcester has received its second $3-million dollar gift in two years, this time, from an anonymous, long-term supporter of the private Jesuit middle school.
May 15, 2025
Budget stall may lead to delayed payment for Mass. child care providers
May 15, 2025Reimbursements to child care providers who serve low-income families may be delayed in June, as funding remains tied up in a supplemental budget stalled in the Legislature, a top state official said Wednesday.
May 15, 2025
Clark School of Business, WBJ launch Women’s Executive Academy
May 14, 2025The School of Business at Clark University in Worcester, in partnership with Worcester Business Journal, has launched a training academy to help emerging women leaders develop new skills and advance their careers.
May 14, 2025
Mount Wachusett, Fitchburg State sign housing agreement to board community college students
May 8, 2025A new housing program will afford students at Mount Wachusett Community College in Gardner the ability to live on Fitchburg State University’s campus as the two institutions have entered into a residential collegiate housing agreement.
May 8, 2025
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