May 13, 2019 - Hartford Business Journal

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🔒How to attract and keep the best people

With unemployment at record lows and tax cuts providing an impetus for growth, there’s a war for talent. Those losing the war will be left with the mediocre, which will make it difficult to achieve ambitious goals.

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🔒Thank you Gov. Lamont, for cutting red tape

Small business owners struggle to comply with regulations and paperwork, spending valuable hours that could be used instead to grow their business.

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🔒Strengthen and grow your business by doing good

The sole purpose of business is to increase profits for its owners. So said economist and Nobel laureate Milton Friedman in a 1970 essay that remains among the most controversial business theories.

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🔒Commercial realty conference airs bearish outlook

Connecticut has not created one new job in over a decade. The state is losing high school graduates as well as high value-added jobs. Home prices have still not recovered from the Great Recession.

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🔒CT, Mass. credit unions eye each other’s turf for depositors

As part of credit unions’ never-ending search for new depositors, one of Connecticut’s largest member-owned, credit cooperatives,...

Insurance

🔒Pay-ratio disclosures put executive compensation, income inequality in spotlight

Walt Disney Co. CEO Robert Iger’s $65.6 million in compensation last year recently drew the public spotlight,...

Education

🔒Quinnipiac study raises red flags about state of ‘Urban CT’

Q&A talks with Robert M. Brown III, a visiting assistant sociology professor at Quinnipiac University in Hamden.Q....

Economy & Labor

🔒Needy CT employers offer receptive job market to 2019 college grads

Connecticut employers in need of young talent are welcoming recent graduates with open arms.

Real Estate & Construction

🔒Commercial real estate community says ‘Transfer Act’ stifling economic development in CT

At a May 2 commercial real estate conference held at the Delamar Hotel in West Hartford, realty...

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🔒Conning: Big insurers taking up more real estate on ‘Main Street’

Companies in the already crowded small-business commercial insurance industry have something else to worry about — the big dogs increasingly moving onto their turf.

Arts & Culture

🔒Willie ‘Pep’ movie team goes the distance in Hartford

Famed Hartford-area boxer Willie Pep won his first four featherweight title fights in the 1940s by going...

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🔒Great Blue Research CEO answers questions about asking questions

If anyone can testify that it’s not what you ask, but how you ask it, it’s Michael Vigeant.

May 13, 2019Edition

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