June 20, 2016 Edition - Hartford Business Journal

Politics & Policy

🔒TV studio helps Hartford HealthCare shape its message

Hartford HealthCare recently built a $35,000 TV studio that allows its marketing team to produce entirely in-house, longer, multi-camera programming that it pays to air on local news stations.

Hospitality & Tourism

🔒Social gaming among CT casinos’ latest battles

Foxwoods is hedging its bets by bringing its gaming experience online with an enhanced FoxwoodONLINE social-casino platform that launched in April.

Banking & Finance

🔒CT banks improve profitability, outperform nation

Connecticut banks collectively outperformed their national counterparts in the first quarter, boosting profits nearly 12 percent despite continued interest-rate margin pressures.

News

🔒Overcoming fears of change and failure

While businesses tout the necessity of continuous improvement, executives and managers must have the willingness to do things differently and do different things.

Banking & Finance

🔒Conflicts of interest cloud industry oversight

The scrutiny over Insurance Commissioner Katharine Wade's oversight of insurance industry mega mergers is reaching a tipping...

News

🔒Dash for a Difference event promotes community service in Hartford

More than 200 volunteers from businesses throughout Hartford participated in a Dash for a Difference, an innovative community-service initiative.

Banking & Finance

🔒Wrice’s two decades narrowed CT’s energy-affordability gap

When Patricia Wrice started as executive director of Operation Fuel back in 1997, things were much different. While she was full time, the organization was largely part time and housed in a church basement.

News

🔒BETA participates in 2016 HARC Walk

Hartford engineering firm BETA Group Inc. recently came together to participate in the 2016 HARC Walk & 5K Run.

Arts & Culture

🔒Collins hopes summer, fall aid HSO’s revival

A Q&A with Steve Collins, executive director of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra.

Education

🔒Nonprofit Profile: Social Enterprise Trust Inc. (reSET)

A look at the finances and leadership of the nonprofit Social Enterprise Trust Inc. (reSET), as well as other nonprofit news from Greater Hartford.

News

🔒Glastonbury CPA Honored with CPA Society Leadership Award

The Connecticut Society of Certified Public Accountants has honored Mitchell R. Insero of Glastonbury with the 2016...

Economy & Labor

🔒Hartford Foundation plays vital role aiding Capital City

In a recent op-ed piece, the author suggested the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving might lessen the burdens of government for the city of Hartford as it struggles with long-term budget deficits.

News

🔒Lockheed Martin brings F-35 cockpit demonstrator to Whitcraft

Lockheed Martin recently showcased its F-35 Lightning II mobile cockpit demonstrator to elected officials and business leaders at Whitcraft's Eastford plant.

Manufacturing

🔒Hartford should consider bankruptcy

There are four words that come to mind when I think about Hartford: sadness, disorder, bankruptcy and leadership.

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