May 9, 2016 Edition - Hartford Business Journal

Insurance

🔒Understanding the impact of cyber-attacks on your business

We have reached a point in our society where we are too reliant on the Internet for conducting business and criminals are often one step ahead of the latest security measures.

Real Estate & Construction

🔒$1M industrial listing on New Britain’s John Downey Dr.

A 34,000-square-foot New Britain commercial/industrial building is for sale at $1 million, brokers say.

Energy

🔒Why Whole Foods CEO envies Trader Joe’s

Whole Foods founder and co-CEO John Mackey really envies his rival Trader Joe's. Not because Trader Joe's has many fans. Or because its Hawaiian shirt-wearing workers seem to have a lot of fun.

Economic Development

🔒Foodshare Nonprofit Profile

A look at the finances of the nonprofit Foodshare, as well as other nonprofit news from Greater Hartford.

Energy

🔒CT venture activity slows

Connecticut venture capital investment came to a screeching halt in the first quarter of 2016 with only six companies raising funds.

News

🔒CRIS Radio has 6th annual Dining & Dancing in the Dark gala

CRIS Radio recently held its sixth annual Dining & Dancing in the Dark gala at the Bond...

Energy

🔒A blueprint for company innovation initiatives

Reinventing your business and managing its current state are “two fundamentally different management challenges. Why? Tomorrow versus today inherently involves competition for resources.

Energy

🔒Proactive businesses avoid tax hikes … for now

It appears Connecticut businesses will avoid a tax increase in 2016, an unsurprising outcome from this year's legislative session, despite a nearly billion-dollar budget deficit.

Health Care

🔒CT docs join lawsuit frenzy against medical-waste giant

Two West Hartford physicians have filed a class-action lawsuit accusing one of the country's largest medical-waste disposal service providers of illegally jacking up service fees.

Real Estate & Construction

🔒UConn Professor to Receive 2016 Connecticut Medal of Technology

UConn professor Dr. Cato T. Laurencin has been named the 2016 recipient of the Connecticut Medal of...

News

🔒Aetna helps nonprofits find board leadership

Aetna employees recently partnered with Leadership Greater Hartford to provide board orientation and nonprofit board matching services...

Foreign Trade

🔒Entrepreneur launches global ‘grappling’ bouts from tiny CT suburb

Kipp Kollar saw an opportunity with a new sport 21 years ago and seized upon it.The former...

News

🔒Royal Ice Cream’s cold treats have global appeal

The story of Royal Ice Cream is the classic American tale that has evolved into global products from its immigrant founder 90 years ago.

Foreign Trade

🔒CT should adopt unicameral legislature

Do we need a House of Lords? Nay! We should rid ourselves of the unnecessary appendage we call the state Senate.

News

🔒Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation hosts Community Spirit Awards

As part of its eighth annual Community Spirit Awards, The Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation honored six...

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