January 25, 2016 EditionEdition

News

🔒Tips for creating a successful strategic plan

Andersen defines strategy as “consistently making those core directional choices that will best move you toward your hoped-for future.” The keywords: hoped-for future. Vision begets ideas, which spawn plans.
Economy & Labor

🔒Failed leadership, taxes, contempt ushered GE out the door

House Speaker Brendan Sharkey recently toured Bristol Hospital alongside the facility's CEO and proclaimed that he now has a deeper appreciation of all the good work being done by the community-based facility.
Politics & Policy

🔒Wiley aims to preserve CT’s Fourth Estate

Tom Wiley, the new publisher and CEO of the Hartford Courant Media Group, is an adept media sales executive, staunch defender of journalism as the fourth estate and fan of fast cars.
Accounting

🔒Raising capital just got a little easier

Remember when raising funds in the capital markets was only for large companies? Did you think the IPO process was too burdensome and only possible for companies raising large dollars?
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Politics & Policy

🔒UConn Health Scientist Named AAAS Fellow

Reinhard Laubenbacher of UConn Health and The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine in Farmington has been named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Small Business

🔒CT Chapter of Entrepreneurs’ Organization gives back

The Connecticut Chapter of Entrepreneurs' Organization raised funds to support New Britain nonprofit Button Up Connecticut. EO...
Economic Development

🔒Like GE, CT must reinvent itself

A report calling for significant tax increases to pay for Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's ambitious 30-year, $100 billion transportation initiative just days after General Electric announced it was fleeing was the exact wrong message.
News

🔒Murtha Cullina sponsors giving tree for Mercy Housing and Shelter

Staff at Murtha Cullina's Hartford office (shown left) celebrated the holiday season by participating in a giving...
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Manufacturing

🔒Two Hartford apartment buildings fetch $14.5M

A Connecticut landlord has sold a pair of Hartford apartment buildings with 217 units for $14.45 million, brokers say.
News

🔒6 ways to boost your PR profile

For small businesses, nonprofit organizations, associations and just about any enterprise looking to establish itself in the marketplace, attitude drives altitude.
News

🔒Kask takes BlumShapiro’s reins amid changing accounting landscape

When Joseph Kask, the newly appointed CEO of BlumShapiro, assumed his role on Jan. 1, he inherited a firm that increased its annual revenue from $14 million to $75 million over 14 years.
Education

🔒Smith Brothers Insurance helps local children

Staff at Smith Brothers Insurance in Glastonbury (shown above) sponsored 25 children in need and raised $8,250...
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News

🔒Fighting for Talent: In GE’s wake, biz leaders call for more high-tech recruitment

General Electric is leaving Connecticut for what it views as a more attractive mate. Now it's time for the state to hit the gym to re-shape its competitive prowess, industry observers say.
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