October 29, 2007 Edition - Hartford Business Journal

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Business Should Embrace Conservation

For more than fifty years, The Nature Conservancy in Connecticut has worked to protect biodiversity by preserving...

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OF NOTE — Oct. 29, 2007

OF NOTE • Deloitte & Touche in Hartford placed first in BusinessWeek’s “Best Places to Launch a...

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Conn. Real Estate Surviving The Slump? Just Wait | Governor’s economic advisers say state is a housing time bomb

By now, everybody knows — or at least thinks — that the U.S. housing market has become...

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Spreading The Warmth

Sometimes it takes a packed 15-passenger van and a 10-month stint of volunteering to develop conflict resolution...

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Female Financial Planners Say Markets Ignore Women’s Wealth | Demographics, stats fuel marketing shift for savvy advisers

Women live longer and earn less money than men. Statistically, they also tend to know less about...

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I’m No Multimedia Maven

As most of you know, the “Artful Strategist” offers up artful strategies for almost all of life’s...

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Companies Should Review Strategies To Boost Retention

Employee retention has become one of the critical staffing challenges of our time. And the rules of...

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The Accidental Consultant | Six years after losing corporate job, HR pro revels in success

The adage is, “It’s not what you know, it’s who you know.” Over the last five years,...

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Identify Where Foreign Exposure Could Be Taxing To Your Health

In today’s national and global markets, many companies feel the need to expand beyond their home state....

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Clemens Place Nears $36M Deal

A massive string of West End apartments — along with an unusual city tax deferral plan —...

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In Flight, Bigger Is Better | Bradley officials say larger planes would boost airport usage

Bradley International Airport’s top priorities over the next two years are to get the airport’s 14 airlines...

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Planting The Seeds Of Corruption

Ben Andrews, the former longtime leader of the Connecticut chapter of the National Association for the Advancement...

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New Reg Hopes To Raise 401(k) Participation

A finalized regulation issued last week by the U.S. Labor Department is expected to significantly boost employee...

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FOOD FUND

The Community Foundation of Greater New Britain Catalyst Fund donated 20 cartons of non-perishable food to the...

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STUDENT SAVINGS

Franklin Trust Federal Credit Union (FT) dedicated its second student-run credit union branch at Weaver High School...

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Financing A Business

Like a teenage boy, growing businesses have a huge appetite. They gobble cash, and you’re constantly amazed...

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Scrambled Signals

It’s always enlightening to see who owns what. Jay Leno owns several dozen fancy cars. Rupert Murdoch...

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Business Plans On Napkins

For those of you that remember the frenzy of the dot.com era, the phrase “business plans on...

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Work For The Love Of It

Every now and then, a column generates so much feedback that the feedback itself becomes column fodder....

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Spiritus Wines Moves To H21

A fixture on Main Street for 25 years, Spiritus Wines has announced its intention to move to...

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Are Hispanics Changing America?

If you’ve been around for a few decades, you might remember the old stereotype of Hispanics. They...

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New Bankruptcy Law Fails To Generate More Repayment

Congress voted to change the bankruptcy code to require more people to pay some of what they...

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How Does Your Business Park Garden Grow?

Buried deep within the earth of Gardner’s Nursery lurks a fertilizer powerful enough to grow something bigger...

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Movers & Shakers — Oct. 29, 2007

To submit items for Movers & Shakers, please email text and high-resolution photos to news@ hartfordbusiness.com. Lockton...

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Shake Up A Dull Meeting — With Pop-Tarts? | Hotels, resorts get creative to help companies make gathering more innovative

White tablecloths, notepads, pitchers of water and candy jars? Those are so passe. Today’s convention groups and...

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Patent Protection To Be A Guessing Game | Rule changes force companies to predict which product uses will be most profitable

It’s about to get a lot more expensive to be a Connecticut inventor, thanks to new rules...

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