May 30, 2016 Edition - Hartford Business Journal

Politics & Policy

🔒Comcast volunteers give back during Comcast Cares Day

Nearly 1,000 local Comcast NBCUniversal employees and their families, friends and community partners volunteered to improve eight sites across Connecticut as part of the 15th annual Comcast Cares Day. Connecticut volunteers completed various clean-up projects at Thirman Milner Community School in Hartford as well as sites in Danbury, Middletown, Naugatuck, New Haven, Norwich, Stamford and […]

Accounting

🔒Net-zero home market growth promising, but still a niche

Homes that generate all of their own power through energy efficiencies and renewables represent an attractive market for specialized builders, but broad demand for them so far remains elusive in Connecticut

Energy

🔒10 laws of positive business-building

The latest in business books.

Politics & Policy

🔒Gov’t process ain’t sexy — but it matters

When it comes to our politics, we tend to focus as a society primarily on the personalities of the people running for office and secondarily on the policies they espouse.

Health Care

🔒ConnectiCare’s strategy shift: growing consumer focus

Mid-sized health insurer ConnectiCare competes with the big dogs for in-state customers, and in recent years it's managed to stake out a dominant position in several challenging lines of business.

Energy

🔒UTRC conformable fuel tank could boost natural gas vehicles

The research arm of United Technologies Corp. has developed a fuel tank made of a special composite material that could help get more natural gas vehicles on the road and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

News

🔒Millionaires chalk success up to hard work and family values

Most high-net-worth Americans say they worked their way up from a lower class.

Retail

🔒Tinker your way to business success

Finally, there are schools, summer camps and weekend experiences where kids learn how to tinker. This is far from what some call “futzing around” and others label wasting time.

Economy & Labor

🔒Quinn-Carey aims to bolster the community’s ‘campus’

Don't be surprised to spot Hartford Public Library's new CEO, Bridget Quinn-Carey, checking out books, iPads or DVDs to library visitors one of these days.

Education

🔒United Bank Foundation presents check donation to Hartford school

The United Bank Foundation Connecticut has donated $10,000 to Covenant Preparatory School, an independent day school dedicated...

News

🔒Nonprofit Profile: Knights of Columbus

A look at the finances and leadership of the nonprofit Knights of Columbus, as well as other nonprofit news from Greater Hartford.

Energy

🔒Clean energy gets dirty: Turning heat into sewage

Clean energy can be a dirty job. That's particularly true if you're Lynn Mueller, the founder of International Wastewater Systems, who has built a $20 million business harvesting heat from sewage.

Energy

🔒Land, labor drew second CT FedEx hub to Middletown

FedEx Corp.'s plan to open a second New England overnight package-document delivery hub in Connecticut reflects the availability of sufficient land and skilled talent

Bioscience

🔒Boosting CT’s innovation ecosystem smart policy

State lawmakers have taken on much criticism for their handling of state finances, but one area where they deserve credit is some of the economic-development initiatives they passed recently in special session.

Politics & Policy

🔒Pratt & Whitney Wasp Engine Receives Designation as a Historic Engineering Landmark

Pratt & Whitney's Wasp engine was officially designated as a historic engineering landmark by the American Society...

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