BL Companies was honored by the Connecticut Chapter of the Society for Marketing Professional Services at its Marketing Communications Awards Gala. BL scored the Best Video award for its Who […]
Connecticut's opioid crisis seems to make headlines daily these days. Whether it's calls for more government intervention or another tragic story of a life cut short from a deadly overdose, the public's attention to the dangers of addiction to painkillers and similar drugs is at an all-time high.
Gov. Malloy and the legislature are considering deep cuts to municipal aid in order to rectify an over $3 billion budget deficit. Connecticut's Conference of Municipalities (CCM) is rightfully concerned, and looking for other means to keep municipal budgets balanced. One of its main proposals is to raise the thresholds as to when our state's prevailing wage law is triggered on public construction projects.
Aspiring entrepreneurs with technology ideas that could help the insurance industry are invited to vie for a $5,000 first prize next month during a hackathon weekend at Upward Hartford, featuring top regional developers, designers, coaches, entrepreneurs, mentors and judges from Boston, New York City and Silicon Valley.
When stocks fail to lose or gain ground following a major economic announcement, like a Federal Reserve interest rate hike or a new jobs report, analysts sometimes say the reaction was already “baked into” the market, meaning investors anticipated the news and previously priced the potential impact into their investment decisions.
An MBA can get you far in certain careers, but if banking is the path you want to take, Connecticut has a school that offers something much more specialized.
In my last column (“Business development in the 'post-truth era,' ”) I discussed post-truth era characteristics and implications for business development. This article focuses on strategies to handle the post-truth era's (PTE) symptoms that can make business development more challenging than ever.