Nov. 11, 2024 - Hartford Business Journal

Education

🔒Action plan to re-engage CT’s at-risk youth is needed now

“Young People First.”That’s the title and focus of a newly released report by the 119K Commission — an initiative led by mayors of towns and cities across the state, and coordinated by the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities — and it could not be more succinct or urgent.The comprehensive report outlines a clear path forward for […]

Education

🔒Bordonaro: UConn right to consider elimination of low-enrollment programs

Some of UConn’s unionized professors have raised concerns about school administrators’ efforts to examine, and potentially eliminate,...

Education

🔒Two CT business schools have new women leaders; both say launching in-demand programs key to enrollment growth

Business schools across the nation are showing a slight uptick in enrollment after a two-year lull, while...

Manufacturing

🔒CT manufacturers eager to start, deepen business ties with plane-making giant Airbus

“It takes years to develop an aerospace customer,” said Haley Nemeth.She is the third generation to work...

Manufacturing

🔒Under 6th-generation leadership, Bevin Bros. Manufacturing returns to profitability, has ambitious plan to triple in size

“I call this career 3.0 for me,” laughs Cici Bevin, the new president of her family’s storied...

Health Care

🔒New Haven biotech DeepLook Medical’s AI-driven imaging software targets better breast cancer detection

This number is hard to ignore: 99% of women who receive an early breast cancer diagnosis survive...

Banking & Finance

🔒With new state incentive, second business industrial development corp. launches in New Haven

Business and industrial development corporations (BIDCOs) are small private lenders focused on lending to disadvantaged communities, and...

Banking & Finance

🔒Retired CT banking commissioner, former SBA chief and his deputy launch small business lender

Boosting small business lending to Connecticut’s Hispanic community was a top goal for Bernard Sweeney during his...

Real Estate & Construction

🔒Artificial intelligence gains momentum in Connecticut architecture

Generative artificial intelligence is just beginning to creep into the architecture field, but top Connecticut developers have...

Economy & Labor

🔒Outdoor shopping center Evergreen Walk reverses high vacancy rate by shifting focus to experiential offerings

The brick-and-mortar retail sector took a major hit from the emergence of e-commerce, before the pandemic delivered...

Agriculture

🔒Eco-conscious healthy snacks maker GoodSAM Foods finds growth by targeting ‘climavores’

A growing Darien-based healthy snacks company, GoodSAM Foods, is a profit-driven business with an environmental-oriented mission.Founded by serial...

Economic Development

🔒Following property sale, new 42-bed rehabilitation hospital planned in Waterbury

A 42-bed, 55,000-square-foot inpatient rehabilitation hospital should soon be under construction in Waterbury following the sale Monday...

Energy

🔒Green hydrogen producer Nel debuts $30M renovation of Wallingford plant

Hydrogen is the lightest element on the periodic table but is considered a heavyweight when it comes...

Banking & Finance

🔒UConn student-led venture fund invests in AI technology

Hillside Ventures, a UConn student-led early-stage venture fund, has invested in AI-technology company Siera.ai as part of...

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