August 11, 2025Edition

Education

🔒Amid push for diversity, training program readies community residents for nonprofit board seats

“I had been trying to research how I could help,” said Sarah Sutherland. “I was just looking for a way to serve my community, but on a leadership level.”
Technology

🔒Once warned off a computer career, Barros now leads a growing IT firm set to open a new, expanded HQ in Glastonbury

High school guidance counselors and others warned Kevin Barros against pursuing a career in information technology, worried those jobs would be outsourced overseas.
Economy & Labor

🔒AI revolution poses urgent workforce development challenge for CT

This year is proving to be an interesting time to be a chief technology officer.
Education

🔒Access to top talent, more federal funding fuel UConn’s ambitions to join top association of research universities

There are a variety of reasons why the University of Connecticut wants to be recognized as a superior research institution.
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Economy & Labor

Meet HBJ’s 2025 40 Under Forty class

Check out Connecticut's top young professionals and how they are helping lead their organizations and the community.
Energy

🔒CT solar firms report surge in activity as end of federal tax credits looms

Not long after the One Big Beautiful Bill was submitted to Congress in May, the phones at Ellington-based alternative energy company Earthlight Technologies began to light up.
Education

🔒From first-gen college grad to higher-ed president: Lugo takes helm at Trinity College

Daniel G. Lugo’s journey from first-generation college graduate to entertainment attorney to higher-education leader has landed him at the helm of a top liberal arts college in Connecticut.
Real Estate & Construction

🔒Spinnaker Real Estate Partners, in busiest development era yet, works to secure long-term future as CEO succession looms

Norwalk-based multifamily developer Spinnaker Real Estate Partners is in the busiest period of its four-decade history as it works to secure its long-term future.
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Technology

🔒Here’s how one CT nonprofit is experimenting with AI

“I think that we are just barely, barely beginning to understand the power it can have,” said Patricia Wilcox.
Education

🔒Former Univ. of Bridgeport basketball player launches AI-driven tax app for paid college athletes

Denzel Luna remembers being surprised when learning he had to pay taxes on five pairs of sneakers he received from Nike while playing basketball for the University of Bridgeport.
Advertising, Media & Marketing

🔒Expert’s Corner: The need for speed in crisis communications can create a new crisis

  Want to know how to make a crisis worse? Give in to the pressure to respond too...
Advertising, Media & Marketing

Expert’s Corner: Leading change through communication: a strategic imperative for every business leader

Today’s business landscape is evolving constantly, and leaders face a constant stream of change — from return-to-office...
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