November 9, 2015 Edition - Hartford Business Journal

Accounting

🔒Fiduciary duty: A pledge board members must uphold

An organization is only as strong as its board.

Foreign Trade

🔒Mansfield apts. are CT’s latest EB-5 project

A Mansfield apartment development could raise 60 percent of its needed $20 million through a federal program that provides visas in exchange for investments.

Energy

🔒MRM back in downtown Hfd.

MRM Group LLC has returned to downtown Hartford, where the provider of healthcare risk management and patient-safety solutions got its start more than a dozen years ago.

Education

🔒Bob’s gives $60,000 to Save the Children

Bob's Discount Furniture recently presented a $60,000 check to Save the Children as part of its Café Collections for a Cause initiative.

Education

🔒Bronin’s time to lead | EH casino makes most sense

Luke Bronin's coronation was completed last week as the Hartford lawyer was officially crowned mayor of the Capital City.

Banking & Finance

🔒Fast capital: Friend or foe to small business?

If fast is the new norm, why should millions of small businesses wait months for a business loan? Banks have always embraced slow and steady as their motto when it comes to lending to small businesses. But slow is no longer acceptable.

Politics & Policy

🔒The Hartford Club

The Hartford Foundation for Public Giving awarded a total of $46,249 in grants to the Hartford Interval...

Politics & Policy

🔒Auctioneers see opportunity in CT’s lightly regulated industry

Connecticut has a reputation for being a tough place to do business. But the co-owners of CT Auction House in Vernon wish things were just a little tougher in their line of work.

Accounting

🔒Butler Equipment Honored | Pratt & Whitney Earns NAACP Award | RH Accountant Selected for “Top 10”

Butler Equipment in West Hartford recently received awards from Sweden manufacturer Husqvarna and Maryland-based Wright Manufacturing for...

News

🔒Habits of highly effective networkers

If you are in business, you need to network, it's that simple. Some are better at it than others are, but we all need to seek continuous improvement of this critical skill.

Energy

🔒Zaleski aims to expand riverfront’s economic impact

Michael Zaleski, the new head of Riverfront Recapture, is no stranger to Hartford or the Connecticut River,...

Accounting

🔒Patent trolls: Extortion at the expense of innovation

An unforeseen burden has plagued Connecticut businesses over the last decade. Between 2005 and 2015, a practice known as “patent trolling” has increased fivefold.

News

🔒St. Francis honors cancer survivors with special celebration

The Smilow Cancer Hospital Yale-New Haven at St. Francis recently held a celebration for more than 150...

News

🔒Tips for turning insights into innovation

Innovators like Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs saw what wasn't there; they identified gaps and filled them.

Politics & Policy

🔒CMHA celebrates 40 years at annual meeting

More than 160 staff, funders and community leaders celebrated Community Mental Health Affiliates' 40-year anniversary at the organization's annual meeting.

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