October 15, 2007 Edition - Hartford Business Journal

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Companies Add Workers Quickly

The U.S. job market is showing signs of slowing, but employers are still adding jobs at a...

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Personal Jets Spreading Their Wings In New England

A growing number of pilots, daytrippers and business travelers with a few extra dollars on hand are...

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Game Faces Stay On In The Offseason

For legislators, the General Assembly is a part-time job, and more than half the year, the capitol...

Manufacturing

Nutmeg Startups Aim At High-Tech Cures For Misbehavior | Education, self-help markets draw psychologists into business world

A Middletown psychologist has invented a novel way to teach hyperactive kids to pay attention: Shake them...

Manufacturing

State Doubles Investment In New Haven Startup

For the second time in five months, Connecticut Innovations has invested more than a half-million dollars in...

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Movers & Shakers — Oct. 15, 2007

Richard W. Tomeo and John R. Shaughnessy Jr. are designated subcommittee chairs for the American Bar Association...

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STADIUM SUPPORT

Rocky, the New Britain Rock Cats mascot, visited the Connecticut Children’s Medical Center and presented a $2,500...

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REACHING OUT TO READ

Read to Grow in Hartford welcomed actor and best-selling author Alan Alda to its fundraising luncheon. Read...

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CARING FOR THE KIDS

Employees from Pita Communications in Hartford volunteered at the Hartford Children’s Theater as part of the United...

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Easy Worker Rewards

Employees are people, too. While that may appear obvious, some employers seem to treat their employees as...

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Corporate Ladder Climb Began At Bottom Of Massive Chicken Coop

Most kids’ first jobs involve trudging behind a lawnmower or chucking newspapers at front doors — the...

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New Chamber Targets Gays | State’s first GLBT chamber launched in New Haven

The 2006 National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce convention must have been a good one —...

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UConn Partnership Shifts Cost Of Attracting Top-Tier Teachers

Here’s a good reason for UConn students and parents to rejoice over the $4 million infusion to...

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AT THE PEAK OF TRAINING

Business and community leaders from Greater Hartford that are participating in the Leadership Greater Hartford American Leadership...

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Economics Is Getting An Enigmatic Edge

We all know that the best way to learn is by experience, yet the typical classroom is...

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PRO BONO NONPROFIT

Robinson & Cole employees drafted nonprofit incorporation documents on a pro bono basis for Dances With Wood...

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Glastonbury Software Firms Merge | Reformed Arbot Software targets specialty software market

In a perfect world, a business merger would be like finding the first two pieces in a...

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OF NOTE — Oct. 15, 2007

OF NOTE • The Fidelco Guide Dog Foundation in Bloomfield received a four-star rating from Charity Navigator,...

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Thinking Positive Has No Negative

I was looking at the obituary notices the other day, and came across one that struck a...

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AG Sues Second-Largest Reinsurance Broker

Connecticut’s attorney general is suing the world’s second-largest reinsurance broker, claiming it violated Connecticut’s antitrust and unfair...

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Home Builders’ Foundations Shift With Shaky Market

Even as homebuyers were being offered a free washer, dryer, refrigerator and window blinds, plus 5 percent...

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AT&T, State In Web TV Tangle | Can company ignore a federal court ruling?

Legal papers were flying faster than electrons last week as AT&T battled both the Connecticut Attorney General...

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Grinding, Flying And Trucking In Columbia

Columbia may not boast many manufacturing companies, but this town of 5,600 has at least one big...

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Lockdown Privileges Spreading

Major credit bureaus Experian and Equifax have joined TransUnion and said they will, this year, let people...

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Innovation Coming Soon To A Manager Near You

We live in a world transformed by the Internet, so why would anyone wish to work for...

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Charities Now Go For Bids ‘n’ Bytes | Online auctions boost bankrolls for nonprofits

Tracey Sperry has been a self-declared “big eBay-er” ever since the online auction Web site launched. It...

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Will High Court Cripple Class Actions Against Companies? | Securities fraud suits diminish

The number of federal securities fraud lawsuits is steadily falling. Businesses are stepping up their assault on...

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It’s All In The Numbers

There are the English people, the science people, the history people, and the math people. Every discipline...

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Hartford Nonprofits Make Drastic Turnaround | United Way survey shows big gains in staffing and fund raising

What a difference a year can make. This year’s United Way of the Capital Area survey found...

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CDA Shuts Up

Our government is supposed to be the mechanism by which we keep order in society and business....

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What’s Your Incentive? | Laurence D. Cohen

One of the funny little amendments that Connecticut’s legislative Republicans proposed this summer would have required that...

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No Immediate Reaction

In 1986, a local TV reporter questioned Gov. William O’Neill about his leadership style during a debate....

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Honor Was To Wrong Man

To The Editor: I find your paper to be of great value to the nonprofit sector of...

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