August 27, 2018 Edition - Hartford Business Journal

Insurance

🔒CT holds the line on association health plans

A recent move by the Trump administration to open an avenue for small businesses to access cheaper but skimpier health plans is a nonstarter in Connecticut, regulators say.

Real Estate & Construction

🔒Greater Hartford’s office market sluggish through first half of 2018

Q&A talks with Gary Schless, first vice president of commercial real estate brokerage firm CBRE/New England in Hartford, about the state of Greater Hartford's office market.

News

🔒Day Pitney co-sponsors affinity bar mixer in Hartford

Hartford law firm Day Pitney LLP co-sponsored an affinity bar mixer along with the South Asian Bar...

News

🔒Income tax repeal ‘plan’ doesn’t justify hysteria

Hysteria and vilification quickly have become the hallmarks of Connecticut's campaign for governor, with Democrat Ned Lamont and Republican Bob Stefanowski and their surrogates hurling contempt and mock indignation at each other.

News

🔒Cowen Tax Advisory Group celebrates 40 years

The Cowen Tax Advisory Group in West Hartford recently held its 40th anniversary celebration. The event at...

News

🔒New EU data protection regs will hit U.S. firms

As the global focus on data security continues to intensify, the European Union is in the process of implementing broad-ranging data security and privacy measures that will impact any business doing work overseas, or companies handling EU resident information.

News

🔒How to create an innovative work culture

“Innovation Judo: Disarming Roadblocks and Blockheads on the Path to Creativity” by Neal Thornberry (Evolve Publishing, $19.95).Large...

Economy & Labor

🔒State’s labor challenges are many

Connecticut's labor force is a major driver of the state's economy that, if fine tuned, could offer a competitive advantage in attracting jobs and investment capital.

News

🔒Meet with yourself to manage yourself

Dave Barry, American writer/humorist, once said, “If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.' ”

News

🔒TD Charitable Foundation supports Klingberg Family Centers

The TD Charitable Foundation, the charitable giving arm of TD Bank, recently donated $10,000 to Klingberg Family...

Real Estate & Construction

🔒Modern office-space designs aim to lift productivity and morale

Modern office-space designs, from shared work spaces to play areas, are trying to lift worker productivity and morale.

Insurance

🔒Travelers exec. Klenk leads CT Children’s foundation board

Jeffrey Klenk doesn't have a medical background, but the new chairman of the Connecticut Children's Medical Center (CCMC) Foundation has plenty of experience with the Hartford-based children's hospital.

Economy & Labor

🔒Vast web works to meet Connecticut’s labor challenges

When Gov. Dannel P. Malloy took office in 2011, he laid out his vision for creating one of the global economy's “best-educated, most-skilled, highest-productive” workforces that would give every Connecticut business access to “qualified, skilled, job-ready” talent.

Economy & Labor

🔒HBJ Special Report: Building Connecticut’s workforce pipeline

Hartford Business Journal is kicking off a multi-part series that will highlight the challenges and opportunities the state faces in grooming and retaining its next-generation workforce.

Manufacturing

🔒Scaling the right models

One workforce-development effort that many insiders point to as a model for future success is the Eastern Connecticut Workforce Investment Board's (EWIB) Manufacturing Pipeline Initiative.

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