March 28, 2016 Edition - Hartford Business Journal

Nonprofits

🔒#2 Small/Medium Company Category: Fiduciary Investment Advisors

To find out what makes Windsor-based Fiduciary Investment Advisors an ideal workplace, talk to any member of the core leadership team, all of whom have been with the company between 18 and 20 years.

Real Estate & Construction

🔒#3 Large Company Category: Shawmut Design and Construction

Employees at the North Haven offices of Shawmut Design and Construction have a good reason to put their all into the work they do. They own the company.

Politics & Policy

🔒Let Hartford keep admissions tax revenues

A proposal has resurfaced at the General Assembly that would divert to the city of Hartford state admissions tax revenues generated by Dunkin' Donuts Park.

Economic Development

🔒Collaboration key to solving community problems

We seem to forget how essential it is to find common ground. Long after elections are settled, we are still engaged in what has been termed “hyper-partisanship.”

Economy & Labor

🔒Electric submetering rolls out in CT

After years of dispute and regulatory wrangling, electricity “submetering” is gaining traction in Connecticut, with more than 1,800 Connecticut apartment units now authorized to use the practice.

Politics & Policy

🔒Hands On Hartford’s $6.5M community space debuts

Nonprofit Hands On Hartford has opened its $6.5 million Hands On Hartford Center for Community in the city's Parkville neighborhood.

Insurance

🔒#1 Large Company Category: Edward Jones

At financial services firm Edward Jones, promoting from within and providing the tools to succeed are the keys to the company's recruiting and branch expansion.

Economy & Labor

🔒#2 Large Company Category: Hinckley Allen

For the 60 employees of the Hinckley Allen's Hartford office, which opened in 2008, it is a culture that promotes empowerment, skill development and collaboration that has fueled employee satisfaction and loyalty.

Hospitality & Tourism

🔒#3 Small/Medium Company Category: VLink

When VLink CEO Sharad Patney thinks about his Windsor information-technology company's annual goals, he starts with an unconventional priority: Employee happiness.

Economy & Labor

🔒#1 Small/Medium Company Category: SMC Partners LLC

SMC bills itself as an information technology, business process, and human performance consulting company focused on health care, health insurance, and social services.

Politics & Policy

🔒Fantasy sports bill could bring millions in state revenue

Legislation that seeks to officially authorize daily fantasy sports websites already operating in Connecticut and many other states has the potential to bring in as much as $7 million in state revenue.

Economy & Labor

🔒Keys to creating a Best Places work environment

What does it take to be a Best Places to Work in Connecticut? There's no single standard. It takes an organization that is not only successful in growing its business and satisfying customers, but also grooming its workforce.

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