March 21, 2011 Edition - Hartford Business Journal

Advertising, Media & Marketing

Now that was expensive lunch

Ron Schiller’s big mouth and need to impress may have cost NPR more than $400 million. That’s...

News

Legislators need to prove state is open for business

In a recent opinion piece to the Wall Street Journal, President Obama signaled that it was time...

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On the cutting edge | Hamden doctor is state’s first solo practitioner to be certified as a ‘medical home’

Health care officials who predict the gradual extinction of small physician practices in Connecticut probably have not...

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CONCERT BENEFITS LUPUS FOUNDATION

The local band LittleHouse played a sold-out charity concert at the Warner Theatre in Torrington for...

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REALTORS BENEFIT AIDS INTERVAL HOUSE

The Greater Hartford Association of Realtors hosted its fourth annual Chocolate, Diamonds & Champagne event at the...

Retail

Retailers reach older buyers in a new way: social media

The common perception that older consumers do not use social media has been turned on its...

Nonprofits

Grant to fund expansion of consumer training

Hartford-based Co-opportunity Inc. is one of five nonprofit across the country — and the only agency in...

Economy & Labor

Next generation jobs available with training

Q&A talks with Judith K. Resnick, executive director of CBIA’s Education Foundation, about next generation careers in...

News

Could a bold stroke seal Malloy’s win?

In this dizzying world of 24/7 news cycles and screaming punditry, it should be no surprise that...

Economy & Labor

Tax credit tweak finds angel wings

Connecticut’s investor community is pushing for a change in the state’s recently adopted angel investor tax credit...

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OF NOTE

Science Foundation taps Gladis of RSL Peter Gladis, director of marketing at RSL Fiber Systems LLC...

Real Estate & Construction

Pharmacy venture buys building in Plainville

Avon entrepreneur Lisa Wilson-Foley is investing $1.5 million in a Plainville building to house some 50 newly...

Technology

SS&C enjoys success but wants billions more | Windsor software behemoth eyes new acquisitions, expansion abroad

Bill Stone’s eyes dance with dollar signs. The founder and CEO of Windsor software provider SS&C...

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CAPITAL PREP SKI PROGRAM GETS A LIFT

Halloran & Sage attorneys Daniel P. Scapellati, Henry M. Beck and Paul D. Meade recently joined students from Hartford’s Capital Prepatory...

Economy & Labor

State still waiting to feel impact of Korea deal

When Han Duk-soo, South Korea’s ambassador to the United States visited Connecticut in September, he argued that...

Economy & Labor

Employees working together please customer

Quick, name three people at your workplace whom you look forward to seeing every day. Now, name...

News

College programs tip scales against athletes

When Hartford Business Journal recruited me from my college newspaper, I wasn’t allowed to consult with a...

Economy & Labor

Movers & Shakers

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Energy

NRG finds hurdles in biomass energy plan

Another Class I renewable power plant can’t seem to find its footing in Connecticut. As the...

News

Glastonbury insurer of nuclear plants sees no exposure in Japan tragedy

A Glastonbury specialty firm generates hundreds of millions of dollars annually insuring half of the world’s 441...

News

Worker safety still an issue 100 years after Triangle fire

On March 25, we mark the 100th anniversary of the terrible Triangle Shirtwaist Fire that took the...

Banking & Finance

Be flexible, think long-term, financial advisors urge | Habits, emotions among factors keeping Americans from building wealth, experts say

Investors aren’t saving enough for retirement, aren’t always thinking long-term and often look to the past to...

News

New state department needed to target early education programs

TO THE EDITOR: A bill before the Connecticut legislature seeking to create a Department of Early...

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