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Hospitality & Tourism

  • Marlborough, QCC partner in dietary management program

    Emily Micucci January 6, 2016

    Quinsigamond Community College (QCC) in Worcester has launched a new certificate in hospitality and dietary management for the spring semester, in partnership with the city of Marlborough.

    Emily Micucci January 6, 2016
  • Beverly businessman pushing for Worcester professional hockey

    Laura Finaldi January 4, 2016

    Last month, Worcester's Civic Center Commission unanimously approved a plan to bring professional hockey back to the DCU Center. The fate of a potential Worcester team is in the hands of the East Coast Hockey League and businessman Cliff Rucker.

    Laura Finaldi January 4, 2016
  • Businesses keeping a watchful eye on online reviews

    Laura Finaldi January 4, 2016

    Google any service business and oftentimes the first thing that pops up on the side of the webpage is its ratings. That makes it possible to make a judgment about a business without visiting its website.

    Laura Finaldi January 4, 2016
  • Youth sports becoming big business for Central Mass

    Sam Bonacci January 4, 2016

    Sports complexes across Central Massachusetts are tapping into a youth sports market that has proven recession proof and continues to grow.

    Sam Bonacci January 4, 2016
  • Worcester businessman joins Dunkin' Donuts board

    Sam Bonacci December 16, 2015

    Matthew Doyle of the Branded Management Group in Worcester has been named to the Board of Directors for the supply chain company serving Dunkin' Donuts, National DCP announced Wednesday.

    Sam Bonacci December 16, 2015
  • Natick’s Lookout Farm celebrates new hard cider venture

    December 10, 2015

    Belkin Family Lookout Farm in South Natick today will celebrate the opening of its new taproom, The Lookout, on the grounds of the 17th-century farm.

    December 10, 2015
  • Venkat Kolluri

    Emily Micucci December 7, 2015

    Venkat Kolluri, CEO of Chitika Inc., has made an art of creating an inviting workplace to employees of his Internet advertising firm in Westborough.

    Emily Micucci December 7, 2015
  • Dr. Charles and Janet Birbara

    Sam Bonacci December 7, 2015

    Dr. Charles and Janet Birbara never intended to run the Beechwood Hotel, but when their business partner went bankrupt, the responsibility fell to them. They have taken that misfortune and turned it into an opportunity.

    Sam Bonacci December 7, 2015
  • Legalized marijuana campaign turns in 103K signatures

    State House News Service December 2, 2015

    After collecting and filing 103,000 raw signatures with the help of paid gatherers, sponsors of a ballot question to to legalize marijuana for recreational purposes took another step on Tuesday to secure their petition a spot on the November 2016

    State House News Service December 2, 2015
  • Worcester business Imperial Distributors reinvests in city

    November 23, 2015

    As Worcester strives to grow its business base with new hotels, an expanding medical industry and courting startups, the city continues to rely upon long-time businesses, many of which started here and continue to make the region their home.

    November 23, 2015
  • Framingham pushing for $34-million downtown MassBay campus

    Emily Micucci November 23, 2015

    Local stakeholders are in the process of re-pitching a $34-million downtown Framingham satellite campus of Massachusetts Bay Community College to the Baker Administration after a host of community college capital projects across the state have been

    Emily Micucci November 23, 2015
  • Startups, unicorns and realistic expectations

    Ken Cook November 23, 2015

    I am a fan of startups and entrepreneurism, having worked with them my entire professional career. I've written books for them, built businesses around them and through Inc. Magazine consulted with the best of them – the Inc. 500.

    Ken Cook November 23, 2015
  • Middlesex Savings honored for new biz lending

    November 20, 2015

    The Massachusetts office of the U.S. Small Business Administration has awarded Natick-based Middlesex Savings Bank with its Lender of the Year to New Business Award.

    November 20, 2015
  • Construction begins on 237 Worcester apartments

    Sam Bonacci November 16, 2015

    Construction has kicked off on the first part of a key residential component to the City Square revival of downtown Worcester.

    Sam Bonacci November 16, 2015
  • Activists: Mass. marijuana legalization not to be affected by Ohio failure

    State House News Service November 4, 2015

    With at least five states -- Massachusetts possibly among them -- expected to vote on proposals to legalize, regulate and tax marijuana for recreational use next year, activists said the failure of a legalization ballot question in Ohio will have "

    State House News Service November 4, 2015
  • Movers & Shakers

    October 26, 2015

    TODD DONOHOE was hired as a commercial lender at Hometown Bank in Oxford.

    October 26, 2015

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While shifting cultural norms in the business community have found hiring managers outwardly working toward hiring a more diverse staff, studies in the last few years by organizations like McKinsey & Co. and Regent University found women and people of color are promoted less frequently than their white male counterparts. This produces a dynamic where company leadership at many organizations remains dominated by white males even as the company's employees become more diversified.