March 19, 2018 Edition - Hartford Business Journal

Economy & Labor

🔒Boys & Girls Clubs sharpen focus on college, career readiness

Employers looking for new workers might very well find them coming out of a local Boys & Girls Club in Hartford, or any of the other 4,367 clubs in the U.S.

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🔒Hughes Health & Rehabilitation hosts best practices discussions

Hughes Health & Rehabilitation recently hosted a team from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and...

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🔒Amazon donates to Windsor STEM program

Amazon made a surprise delivery of more than $5,000 worth of Mobile Maker Space items and books...

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🔒Connecticut Lighting Centers’ Director honored

Nutmeg Big Brothers Big Sisters presented a Visionary Leader Award to David Director, president of Connecticut Lighting...

Manufacturing

🔒Gender diversity has ways to go in manufacturing

Jonna Gerken of West Hartford is an engineering manager for Pratt & Whitney and 2018 president of the 38,000-member Society of Women Engineers, the world's largest peer organization advocating for and supporting women in the field.

Politics & Policy

🔒CBIA CEO sees shared pain in commission’s recommendations

Shortly after the state Commission on Fiscal Stability and Economic Growth began holding public meetings, labor leaders accused the CEO-led group of having determined in advance what they intended to recommend to the legislature — most likely, a pro-business, anti-labor agenda.

Economic Development

🔒Hartford region crafting new economic development strategy

In Hartford, 2018 is turning out to be a planning year.

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🔒Tips to perform better under pressure

“Crunch Time: How to Be at Your Best When it Matters Most” by Rick Peterson and Judd...

Economy & Labor

🔒Employers gain by helping workers with mental health issues

A person with a disability does not always use a wheelchair, hearing aid or white cane.

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🔒You’re a leader, so now what?

The thrill of a new promotion into a leadership position can be quickly eclipsed by feelings of disillusionment and a sense of failure if you are not prepared and are not strategic in your transition.

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🔒Thomas Kucharski | Consumables Sales and Operations Manager, SST Consumables division of Makino Inc.

The electrical discharge machines (EDMs) that do precision cutting critical to aerospace and other industries rely on special copper, brass and zinc-coated wire for the cutting process, much of it supplied through a warehouse in New Britain.

Energy

🔒CBIA says electricity supplier’s ‘unethical’ practices left business customers with higher energy bills

Connecticut's third-party electricity suppliers have been in the headlines plenty in recent years, as state regulators probed their business practices, levied fines against some of them and ultimately voted to ban variable-rate contracts and mandate more transparency.

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