April 18, 2011 Edition - Hartford Business Journal

Economy & Labor

Fix for unemployment fund may mean decade-long tax bite

A legislative proposal that would nearly double the reserve of Connecticut’s unemployment insurance fund to $1.1 billion...

Advertising, Media & Marketing

CT’s corporate communication needs facelift

By Joel Samberg There is plenty of accomplished writing coming from corporate Connecticut, some generated...

Economy & Labor

Women-owned businesses growing in Connecticut

Connecticut businesses owned by women soared in the past decade, held back only by the state’s overall...

Transportation

Busway will strengthen region’s economy

TO THE EDITOR: We write in response to the HBJ’s April 11 editorial on the Hartford-New...

News

Pharmacy school gets diversity scholarship

The St. Joseph College School of Pharmacy has been awarded a $10,000 Walgreens Diversity Scholarship. Walgreens has...

Banking & Finance

Exit Smiling | Retiring McGurk voices no regrets about career growing Rockville Bank

When William J. McGurk started as CEO of Rockville Bank 30 years ago, the community lender was...

Politics & Policy

Business ethics need not be an oxymoron

Q&A talks about business ethics with Q: What prompted you and Meg Schneider to co-write “Business...

Banking & Finance

Community banks rely on Glastonbury bank

Even a bank needs a bank of its own. And if you use a community-based financial institution,...

News

OTHER VOICES

By Shirley M. Payne Throughout Connecticut, businesses, colleges and other civic-minded organizations mentor state students. They...

Economy & Labor

Movers & Shakers

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Banking & Finance

Commercial borrowers get property refinancing help

By Robert Polito Under recent changes to the Small Business Administration’s 504 loan program, conventional owner-occupied...

News

HYPE volunteers in reading program

Members of the Hartford Young Professionals and Entrepreneurs (HYPE) took part in a Reading Day April 8...

News

Medical malpractice a fight with no victor

Don’t you just hate “on the one hand, on the other hand” columnists who think that reasonable...

News

Human Relations Awards To be presented April 28

CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story misstated the date for...

Economy & Labor

New DECD boss plans aggressive pursuit of jobs | Former ING executive, listening, learning in first economic development role

Catherine Smith may have one of the hardest jobs in state government. The newly appointed commissioner...

News

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