July 6, 2015 Edition - Hartford Business Journal

Politics & Policy

🔒A strategic approach to learning from failure

“Fail Better: Design Smart Mistakes and Succeed Sooner” by Anjali Sastry and Kara Penn (Harvard Business Review Press, $30.) While innovation fuels the future, failures are inevitable because actions and […]

Energy

🔒Hartford Office Supply redo next for Dakota

Massachusetts affordable-housing developer Dakota Partners, with its first Hartford housing conversion under its belt, is now focused...

Legal & Courts

🔒CT legal industry faces evolving landscape

Q&A talks with William Clendenen, the new president of the Connecticut Bar Association.Q: From your perspective as...

Energy

🔒Ex-Bushnell owner plows into S.C. apt. scene

Hamilton Point Investments LLC, the Old Lyme landlord that recently sold Hartford's Bushnell on the Park apartments,...

Economy & Labor

🔒Connecticut residents deserve a more coordinated problem-solving approach

As the leaders of several United Ways, we have a unique perspective into the nonprofit and corporate...

Politics & Policy

🔒Pratt & Whitney employees Race for the Cure

More than 100 Pratt & Whitney employees and family members (shown above) recently participated in the Susan...

Energy

🔒Law prevents cities from building large solar arrays

Connecticut's attempts to create a self-sustaining clean energy industry that no longer needs government subsidies are being...

Bioscience

🔒Startup’s diagnostics test aims to reshape breast cancer treatment

As founder and CEO of BioArray Therapeutics Inc., a Connecticut-based cancer diagnostics startup, Marcia Fournier has heard from hundreds of breast cancer patients and their families about the physical, emotional and financial toll that chemotherapy treatments have taken on them.

Energy

🔒EPA working to reduce CT downwind pollution

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency this summer will start working with the 10 states that send their...

Manufacturing

🔒HBJ’s aging workforce series looks at future planning

This week, HBJ resumes its aging workforce series, “Connecticut's Silver Tsunami,” with a look at how the private sector is preparing the next-generation workforce.

Economic Development

🔒Hartford Mayoral Race 2015 Preview: Week 6

The Hartford Business Journal continues its series of profiles of Hartford's mayoral candidates with Giselle Jacobs.

Energy

🔒Stanley Black & Decker employees renovate veterans’ homes

Stanley Black & Decker employees recently teamed up with its nonprofit partner, House of Heroes, and spent...

Economy & Labor

🔒CT economy’s fast start overshadowed by budget woes

As we reach the midway point in 2015, it's a good time to reflect on the good,...

Bioscience

🔒CT sees higher interest in bioscience investment

Q&A talks about bioscience investment with Margaret Cartiera, director of bioscience initiatives at Connecticut Innovations, the state's...

Banking & Finance

🔒Simsbury Bank sponsors financial literacy program

Simsbury Bank recently sponsored Hartford Stage's Financial Literacy Program with the Bloomfield Carmen Arace Intermediate School's sixth...

Real Estate & Construction

🔒Seven secrets to product management success

Product management is an essential function to introduce to any organization. By effectively introducing or optimizing the...

Arts & Culture

🔒Nonprofit Profile: Main Street Community Foundation

KBE Building Corp. has awarded seven health organizations with $1,500 grants through its corporate philanthropic program, 50...

Education

🔒CHFA Programs Receive State & National Recognition

The Connecticut Housing Finance Authority (CHFA) received an award and has been nominated for a national award...

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