June 8, 2015 Edition - Hartford Business Journal

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🔒BlumShapiro makes philanthropy part of employee work-life balance

If you’re looking for a BlumShapiro employee, they might be in the office, where the firm’s specialists provide tax and business consulting to their varied clients. It’s just as likely, however, you will find them running to raise funds, collecting food donations, helping to build a home for someone in need, or volunteering to teach a class in a local school.

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🔒OPM shapes the future of 3D printing

Oxford Performance Materials Inc. is making precision parts that can replace bone in humans and aluminum in aircraft.

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🔒Top private companies focus on customer, employee, community satisfaction

Meet the Hartford Business Journal's 2015 Business Champions.

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🔒Bear’s Smokehouse fills CT’s southern BBQ void

In just two years, Bear's Smokehouse BBQ has evolved from sharing space at Bart's Drive-In Restaurant in Windsor to having its own Windsor location and another in downtown Hartford — and business has been, well, smokin'.

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🔒CT Inc. voices no confidence in Malloy, legislature

The loud chorus of boos that echoed from the boardrooms of Connecticut's largest employers last week over tax increases proposed and then approved by state lawmakers wasn't public theater.

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🔒Best Buy volunteers at Boys & Girls Clubs of Hartford

Best Buy employees (above) recently spent the afternoon volunteering at the Asylum Hill Boys & Girls Clubs...

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🔒Corporate Translations caters to employee needs

Corporate Translations speaks your language, literally.

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🔒Tips for building leadership qualities

“Chess Not Checkers: Elevate Your Leadership Game” by Mark Miller (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, $22.95). In startups, the owner...

Banking & Finance

🔒State pension fund eyes $145M bet on CT Inc.

Connecticut's pension fund is joining a number of other states in placing bets on in-state businesses, as part of an effort to jump-start the economy and diversify its investment portfolio.

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🔒Comcast’s McCarthy honored as Cable TV Pioneer

Andrew McCarthy, vice president of engineering and network operations for Comcast's Western New England Region, was recently...

Legal & Courts

🔒Small firms see opportunity in CT’s tough legal industry

There's a downsizing trend in the law sector these days, with lawyers taking advantage of technology and a teamwork approach to practice in smaller firms or open their own shop.

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🔒Simsbury Bank adopts Tariffville Elementary School for Junior Achievement Day

For the fourth consecutive year, Simsbury Bank adopted Tariffville Elementary School to deliver Junior Achievement's business and...

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🔒KBE builds company, community morale through corporate giving

It started out in 2009, as a celebration of the company's 50th anniversary.

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🔒CT law firms slowly embrace diversity

Q&A talks about efforts Connecticut law firms have taken to diversify their ranks with Asker Saeed, the...

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🔒The infrastructure investment fraud

Some commentators may have missed the snarling irony of the moment. Gov. Dannel Malloy will soon approve the Democratic Party budget, the most progressive budget in state history and Connecticut's second most expensive budget in state history.

Politics & Policy

🔒Killian vows to rein in Hartford’s property taxes

Robert Killian Jr., 68, will have to add a campaign button to his office desk lampshade — one with his name on it — to join the dozens pinned there already that he's collected from past elections.

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🔒Closing the contention gap between selling and buying

The acts of selling and buying are interdependent, yet both manifest themselves in different ways, and somehow...

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🔒ICSGroup ensures investment advisers, money managers play by the rules

There were times when Medina Jett first started her business that she thought all her hair would fall out.

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🔒Health reference cards bolster Scrubs and Stuff’s top line

Ben Loveland initially thought his startup company would primarily sell scrubs to healthcare workers — hence, its name, Scrubs and Stuff LLC.

Politics & Policy

🔒Hartford Mayoral Race 2015 Preview: Week 2

For the next several weeks, the Hartford Business Journal will continue to profile each of Hartford's mayoral candidates.

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🔒Cronin & Co.’s creative environment yields employee loyalty

Free breakfast every Friday, fun sports tournaments, catered cookouts, holiday bonuses, an occasional movie on company time — they're they ways advertising agency Cronin and Company LLC rewards employees for hard work, builds camaraderie and fuels creative inspiration.

Politics & Policy

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