March 8, 2007 Edition - Hartford Business Journal

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Free Spirited Female Right For Harvard?

Harvard, the country’s oldest, wealthiest and by many measures best university has made major modern history. The announcement...

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Future Mayor Learned Lessons From Picking Tobacco

During the late 1960s, a bus would drive around the city of Hartford before sun-up to pick...

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Some Hotels Now Include Floor No. 13

Amid the ongoing building boom in the U.S. hotel industry, one thing will be left unchanged: Most...

Manufacturing

UConn Fuels Corn Company Growth | School was dream partner for Massachusetts bioengineers

Economic development boosters are quick to argue that if Connecticut doesn’t offer the tools businesses need to...

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A Force For Entrepreneurship

What would you do if you wanted to encourage, enable and support entrepreneurs? And you had a...

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Court To Car Dealers: High Fees OK | State law mandates disclosure, but doesn’t limit how much can be charged

Car dealers have no limit on what they can charge customers to process paperwork on a new...

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Tribune Selling 2 Connecticut Papers For $73 Million

Tribune Co. said it is selling its two daily newspapers in Stamford and Greenwich, Conn., to Gannett Co....

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Car Row Getting More Crowded | New, two-story Mazda showroom in the works for West Service Road

A car dealer is nearly tripling the amount of land he owns on Hartford’s West Service Road,...

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Scathing Audit Report Faults State Comptroller | Vendor off the hook for deficiencies with $130 million software system

After four years and $130 million, a software system aimed at improving the state’s outdated financial reporting...

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Lenders’ Pitches Grow Sweeter

Forget the toaster. Buying a house could help pay for your next vacation. Or at least a...

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January Job Numbers Up In Connecticut

Connecticut added 4,000 jobs in January, an increase partly attributed to unseasonably warm temperatures that boosted construction...

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Rell: Husky Program Is Imperiled

Gov. M. Jodi Rell said last week she is worried about covering additional families through Connecticut’s HUSKY...

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The Politics Of Public Safety

Connecticut has a new commissioner of public safety for the eighth time in the last 17 years....

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Boomer Ads Target Aspirations

Marketing to baby boomers is booming. Companies have realized that this generation — 79 million strong —...

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CI Quickly Investing In Tech Cos. | Dinucci making good on pledge for fast action

Maybe the best way for Connecticut Innovations to argue that it needs more state investment is to...

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Lead With Poise, Not Noise

Grace under pressure — what an important attribute for anyone aspiring to be in a leadership role....

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Diagnosis: Disaster | What happens when a small business owner faces a medical catastrophe?

When Bill Kenney got the news: “You’ve got prostate cancer,” he was caught by surprise. The 44-year-old...

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Newspaper Chain Plans Big Revamp To Stay Competitive | New-look Reminder to debut soon

Facing increasing competition from Web sites such as Craigslist and Monster.com, Vernon-based Reminder newspapers are in for...

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Of Note — March 12, 2007

OF NOTE • The tenth annual President’s Day Yahtzee Tournament and Outing, sponsored by Bass Products in Bristol,...

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