July 13, 2015 Edition - Hartford Business Journal

Politics & Policy

🔒Segarra wants to see progress reach full blossom

Incumbent Hartford Mayor Pedro Segarra, 56, is seeking his second full term in office and third term overall.

News

🔒Corporate Profile: United Technologies Corp.

Politics & Policy

🔒Hartford Mayoral Race 2015 Preview: Week 7

The Hartford Business Journal concludes its series of profiles of Hartford's mayoral candidates with the incumbent.

Health Care

🔒Home care: A smart way to deal with CT’s aging population

Connecticut policymakers often get a bad rap, sometimes deservedly so, for their inability to properly manage the state's affairs.

Nonprofits

🔒Nonprofit Profile: Rushford

The Aetna Foundation presented a $25,000 grant to Community Mental Health Affiliates, which will support Leaves of...

Economy & Labor

🔒Will CT’s healthcare workforce be there?

The healthcare and social assistance sectors provide 16 percent of Connecticut's total jobs, according to the state Department of Labor.

Health Care

🔒Amid major consolidation, small insurers look for an edge

Only a year after entering the Connecticut market, Massachusetts health insurer Harvard Pilgrim Health Care said last...

News

🔒Tips to better connect with an audience

“Got Your Attention — How to Create Intrigue and Connect with Anyone” by Sam Horn (Berrett-Koehler Publishers,...

News

🔒Goodwin College donates to ‘Everybody Loves Raymond’ library fund

Representatives of Goodwin College and East Hartford officials gathered recently on the steps of the Raymond Library...

Economy & Labor

🔒Say goodbye to Baby Boomers without compromising productivity

Making up roughly 20 percent of the American public, Baby Boomers have played a huge role in the American workforce for decades.

Legal & Courts

🔒Overregulation hurts CT businesses

If nothing else, the agony of this year's legislative session brought into sharp focus the issue of Connecticut's business climate — which is affected not only by tax rates but also by the extent to which the state's regulatory agencies impose and enforce a wide variety of licensure, reporting, permitting and other obligations on business and nonprofit organizations.

News

🔒United Way raises $280,000 to support women and families

United Way of Central and Northeastern Connecticut's Women's Leadership Council raised $280,000 through its Power of the...

Economy & Labor

🔒CT’s healthcare industry preps for 247,000 seniors, but hurdles remain

In this week's installment of HBJ's series, “Connecticut's Silver Tsunami,” reporter Matt Pilon takes an in-depth look at the impact the state's aging population will have on the healthcare industry.

Health Care

🔒State fights to keep aging population healthy, economical

In a state where the economy relies heavily on the healthcare industry, an aging population promises to steepen the tilt.

News

🔒New leader, same philosophy guides Merry Employment Group

Sally Merry still regrets losing one of her staffing agency's largest clients in the 1970s for not dropping her rate to match a competing agency's price.

News

🔒S/L/A/M receives first place at CT Building Congress’ Project Team Awards

Glastonbury-based S/L/A/M Construction Services was recently awarded a 2015 Project Team Award from the Connecticut Building Congress...

Accounting

🔒FASB proposes major accounting changes for nonprofits

The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) announced in April proposed changes to reporting for nonprofit organizations that will impact the approximately 13,340 nonprofits currently registered with the state Department of Consumer Protection.

Real Estate & Construction

🔒Fremont Group buys Konica Minolta’s Windsor home for $6M

A Windsor industrial building that houses Konica Minolta Business Solutions has sold for $6 million, brokers say.

Accounting

🔒Longobardi plots growth strategy for CohnReznick

Frank Longobardi, regional managing partner-New England for CohnReznick LLP, can look out the window of his downtown Hartford office and see the building a block away where his former accounting firm, Haggett Longobardi, started with a staff of six.

News

🔒New Country Motor Car’s distracted driving campaign raises funds for SADD

New Country Motor Car Group in Hartford recently presented The Governor's Prevention Partnership with a $500 check...

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