May 4, 2020Edition

When the COVID-19 pandemic swept through the nation, forcing significant parts of the economy to close to prevent crowd gatherings small and large, it posed a major threat to West Hartford-based BuzzEngine Marketing & Events, a marketing company that mainly puts on events for clients.

“Cracking the Leadership Code: Three Secrets to Building Strong Leaders” By Alain Hunkins (WILEY, $27). “Leadership isn’t about what goes on in the mind of a leader; it’s about what goes on in the minds of the people he/she wants to lead.” The point: Authority makes you the boss, but that doesn’t make you a leader. Influence does. How do you influence others?

Throughout this COVID-19 pandemic, many industries have stepped up to support their communities. Tourism businesses — particularly hard hit by the quarantine — have also responded in ways that offer inspiration for suspended businesses still eager to remain connected to their patrons.

After nine years of practice in white-collar criminal defense and commercial litigation, Catherine Duke was ready for a change.

It’s been less than a year since former Whitcraft Group CEO Colin Cooper became the state’s inaugural manufacturing czar, a position created to serve as an intermediary between policymakers and a sector that employs more than 160,000 people statewide.

From air purifiers, to hands-free technology, face masks and ultraviolet phone sanitizing stations — the workplace is shaping up to look very different after the coronavirus pandemic subsides.

Hartford area construction firms are implementing several new safety measures for crew members on-site to reduce the risk of spreading COVID-19.

Department of Economic and Community Development Commissioner David Lehman has been busy lately, working all hours to help Gov. Ned Lamont and his other top advisors plot a strategy for reopening Connecticut’s economy.

This year’s canceled legislative session prevented the General Assembly from voting on many hot-button issues — including potentially making Connecticut the 12th state to legalize recreational marijuana sales.

Connecticut’s eight-year-old medical marijuana program has been tightly regulated from the start, but the coronavirus pandemic has forced the state to ease some restrictions, which could change the way the industry operates long term.

Q&A talks with Michael Sabol, co-founder of Glastonbury CPA firm MahoneySabol, about the Paycheck Protection Program and ways businesses should manage their capital amid the economic downturn caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

Automobile lending at Connecticut’s largest credit union has sputtered into the slow lane, as statewide car sales plummet amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Use of public transportation has plummeted in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, but that hasn’t stopped Windsor Locks officials from pinning their future economic-development hopes on a transit-oriented, mixed-use project.