August 3, 2009 Edition - Hartford Business Journal

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Of Note

• Standard Builders of Newington, a mid-size construction management firm, reached 1,000 days without a lost time accident...

Economy & Labor

NU Set To Move Downtown

After some fits and starts, Northeast Utilities has scheduled the Aug. 14 weekend to move its Berlin...

Economy & Labor

Harvey’s Short Course In Salesmanship

Selling is not easy, even in the best of times. In a downturn like we’re in right...

Nonprofits

Good News Garage Connecticut

Mission: The mission of Good News Garage is to create economic opportunity by providing affordable and reliable...

Manufacturing

Pratt’s East Hartford Presence Long In Doubt

Pratt & Whitney has been bidding a long goodbye to East Hartford on and off for more...

News

District Seats For Hartford Council?

It is not quite “controversial.” On the other hand, it is not exactly boring, in an...

Banking & Finance

Second Quarter No Relief For Credit-Hungry Businesses

Credit conditions in Connecticut deteriorated steadily during the second quarter of 2009, showing more signs that the...

News

Health-Insurer Mergers Raise Fears

The recent merger agreement between UnitedHealth Group and Health Net, and numerous other rumors about potential mergers...

Economy & Labor

Movers & Shakers

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R.I.P. DMV?

Democratic lawmakers’ idea to eliminate the state Department of Motor Vehicles deserves serious consideration. The idea,...

Nonprofits

Children’s Medical Gets $1 Million Gift

An anonymous member of the medical staff at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center has made a legacy gift...

Economy & Labor

Looking Overseas | Paul Pirrotta, international business advisor, Metro Hartford Alliance

Your background is in international banking and business. What are some of the challenges of trying to...

News

Celebrating the Carousel

For the fourth consecutive year, the Hartford office of law firm McCarter & English LLP honored the...

Real Estate & Construction

Avon Office Complex Sold For $4.3 Million

New York investor Mark Greenberg has paid $4.3 million for the vacant former Security-Connecticut Life office complex...

News

United for a Cause

More than 60 employee volunteers from United Technologies Corp. participated recently in Jumpstart 2009, a training event...

News

Helping Instead of a Summer Outing

Whittlesey & Hadley, P.C., a provider of accounting and financial services, held its first “Helping Hartford Day,”...

News

The Real Rell

Gov. M. Jodi Rell blinked first. The big stare-down that was the state budget negotiations took...

Economy & Labor

Towns Flooded With Job Seekers

When Newington Town Manager John Salomone posted a job for a new administrative assistant earlier this year,...

Small Business

When Should You Get A Business Partner?

It’s lonely at the top. Even if, by the “top,” it’s just heading up a one-person or...

News

Businesses Need Financing

When Norwalk CEO Roger Brouard wanted to borrow money for his company earlier this year, he experienced...

Nonprofits

Labor Battle Tears At Red Cross

Contentious contract negotiations between unionized workers in Connecticut and the American Red Cross broke down for a...

News

Finance Reform Makes LeBeau Run Possible

When people ask me whether I can meet a deadline, get the lawn cut before it rains,...

Economy & Labor

State Contracts

Here are the latest bids for products and services received by the Connecticut Department of Administrative Services...

Economy & Labor

Mitchell Moves From The Obamas To Windsor Center

When Erby Mitchell told his mother he was leaving the world-famous Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C.,...

Banking & Finance

Father-Son Connection

Waterbury banker James C. Smith often credits his father for the lessons guiding him through today’s economic...

Economy & Labor

Recovery Nearing, Economists Predict

The beginning of an economic recovery appears to be just a few months away but unemployment will...

News

Playground Gets Needed Support

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Connecticut and Western Massachusetts has provided the YWCA of the Hartford Region...

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