April 17, 2023 - Hartford Business Journal

News

🔒Why workplace culture matters

Every business owner understands that their team is integral to the success or failure of their business. Over the past three years, a jobseekers’ market has emerged, creating intense competition […]

Health Care

🔒‘Moon Shot’: UConn’s Laurencin forms new startup amid quest to help humans regrow limbs

UConn researchers are trying a different approach to a problem that has been gathering pace over the last eight years. The startling question it’s trying to answer: What if amputees could regrow their own new limbs?

Economy & Labor

🔒Manufacturers seek to recruit women to meet workforce needs

When she joined the family business 20 years ago, Marietta Lee saw few women on the shop...

Economic Development

🔒Aided by lower property tax rate, Farmington sees manufacturing base expand as vacant inventory dwindles

There’s been much talk nationally and in Connecticut about the return of U.S. manufacturing, particularly in the...

Arts & Culture

🔒Launch of 18-story mural, largest in New England, will kick off downtown Hartford’s season of arts

Hartford-based artist Michael Rice will begin slowly painting his way down the 18-story Millennium apartment building just...

Nonprofits

🔒Under new leadership, The Rideshare Co. navigates post-pandemic employee commuting patterns

Nanci Carnabuci Fitzgerald has been named the new president and CEO of The Rideshare Co., a Bloomfield-based...

Health Care

🔒As new WellSpark president, Campbell eyes aggressive growth goals

WellSpark Health, the Farmington-based provider of corporate wellness programs that announced a major long-term hiring plan in...

Economic Development

🔒Developers pivot on big demand for smaller apartments

Several developers working on residential or mixed-use projects are scrapping plans for larger apartments in favor of...

Economic Development

🔒A converted rail yard, former inn and old Victorian are being transformed into a new hospitality collection in Kent

A bunkhouse, station master’s cottage and former baggage car that served a rail line passing through the...

Economic Development

🔒Hartford developer takes on transformation of antique Litchfield courthouse into boutique hotel

Over the past 133 years, people have visited the granite-block courthouse just south of Litchfield’s Town Green...

Manufacturing

🔒After acquisition of rival Gerber Technology, Lectra reopens manufacturing at Tolland facility

Visiting the Gerber Technology facility in Tolland for the first time since his company acquired it in...

Technology

Meet Greater Hartford Tech Companies to Watch

As Connecticut tries to build up its entrepreneurial ecosystem, there are a number of promising technology companies...

Health Care

🔒Hartford HealthCare, Amazon-owned One Medical partner to open five new CT offices

Imagine being able to ask a healthcare physician, who is familiar with your medical history, a question...

April 17, 2023Edition

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