July 8, 2019 - Hartford Business Journal

News

🔒Quality managers, team leaders key to organizations’ long-term success

“It’s The Manager — Gallup finds that the quality of managers and team leaders is the single biggest factor in your organization’s long-term success” by Jim Clifton and Jim Harter” (Gallup Press, $34).

Advertising, Media & Marketing

🔒Tag lines have lost their place in the advertising world

It comes as no surprise that the state of Connecticut has jettisoned “Still Revolutionary” to the tag line graveyard.

Economic Development

🔒What about city spending?

In this second week of our series, most of the ideas explored as potential ways to shore...

Politics & Policy

🔒Solution: Rebalance the city’s tax burden

Hartford is the only municipality in Connecticut allowed to treat residential property owners differently from owners of...

Politics & Policy

🔒Solution: Sell off state properties in Hartford

Former Gov. Dannel P. Malloy became one of Hartford’s most active landlords during his eight years in...

Politics & Policy

🔒Solution: Fully fund the state’s PILOT program

Municipal leaders in Connecticut are intimately familiar with the state’s own PILOT program, which reimburses cities and...

Nonprofits

🔒Solution: Hartford’s largest nonprofits contribute more

There are fewer than a dozen U.S. cities that receive more than $1 million a year in...

Economic Development

🔒Solution: Alternative revenue sources could bolster city budget, lower mill rate

In the midst of the last recession, Massachusetts lawmakers — a place where, like Connecticut, municipalities rely...

News

🔒Myriad ideas exist to solve Hartford’s high property taxes and unequal tax system

Hartford's high property taxes and unequal tax system pose major challenges, but there's no shortage of ideas on how to solve them.

Economy & Labor

🔒CT employers must prepare for minimum-wage hike

The minimum wage was a controversial issue this legislative session, but moving beyond the political acrimony it’s time for businesses to prepare for the new reality.

Legal & Courts

🔒Amid consolidating industry, three Greater Hartford law firms reach rare century mark

When Connecticut law firm Day Pitney noticed a few years back that many of its high-net-worth and...

Insurance

🔒Chamber Insurance Trust’s stop-loss plan gains steam

Stephen Glick, president of the Orange-based Chamber Insurance Trust (CIT), which offers insurance services to businesses and...

Health Care

🔒CBIA’s health insurance marketplace loses insurer, pivots business model

Harvard Pilgrim Health Care is exiting the Connecticut Business & Industry Association’s insurance exchange, leaving the state’s...

Logistics

🔒A logistics David makes room among Goliaths

The bustling industry sector devoted to rapidly shipping and delivering catalog and online merchandise to homes and...

Legal & Courts

🔒Robinson+Cole partner Jeffrey White talks manufacturing and exporting

Connecticut’s manufacturing sector is operating at full steam ahead these days. But how good would it be...

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