October 30, 2017 Edition - Hartford Business Journal

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🔒A|M Fitness collects donations for Food Pantry

A|M Fitness in Plainville recently held a food drive and a charity check-in as part of the last phase of its five-week training program. The food drive collected over 30 […]

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🔒Sixth annual Miracle League car wash fundraiser

Farmington's Wealth Management Group of North America (WMGNA) along with the University of Hartford Hawks Baseball team,...

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🔒Q&A with MGM Springfield’s Michael Mathis

Michael Mathis used to drive through downtown Springfield to and from his New Jersey home and Dartmouth...

Manufacturing

🔒Aeroparts supplier PCX recruits a growing workforce in Newington

About seven years ago, Newington aeroparts supplier PCX Aerostructures reached what seemed like a pinnacle of production, with revenues peaking at $90 million for business that included supplying parts used for government airplanes deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq.

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🔒Reducing prep time to better execute company strategy

“Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days” by Jake Knapp...

Banking & Finance

🔒Peterkin’s life plan shifts to helping people save money

At 21, Nicole Peterkin's life plan was set. The Montreal, Canada native was a pre-med student at Boson University in 2008 with aspirations of being a surgeon. She would follow in a long line of doctors on her father's side.

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🔒Robinson+Cole employees volunteer at soup kitchen

A team of nine Robinson+Cole lawyers and staff members volunteered their time to plan, purchase, prepare and...

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🔒Clinical trial for Alzheimer’s treatment with CT roots readies

A group of investors and scientists recently sat around a conference table in downtown Hartford's Stilts Building to discuss a Florida-based clinical trial for a helmet-like medical device that aims to reverse the effects of Alzheimer's disease.

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🔒Proven ways to lose your next sale

Behind their assertions of self-confidence and annoying arrogance is an undeniable fact: It takes guts to get the endless unknowns and oddities of customers. But that's what salespeople do.

Insurance

🔒Access Health navigates 2018 challenges

With President Donald Trump's and Congressional Republicans' near-constant attacks on Obamacare swirling, and the shortest-ever open enrollment...

Health Care

🔒CT State Medical Society, Fairfield County physicians split

A longtime relationship between the Connecticut State Medical Society, a leading voice at the state Capitol on healthcare issues, and the Fairfield County Medical Association has fractured after what some members say were years of mutual mistrust and squabbling.

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🔒Caution: Federal tax plan offers uncertainty for CT

In 1986, Democrats and Republicans joined President Ronald Reagan to enact bipartisan “tax reform.” The headlines were all about fairness, simplification, economic stimulus and middle class tax relief.

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🔒Budget negotiations lead to good, bad and questionable outcomes

As the budget stalemate nears its end, now is a good time to reflect on the good, bad and questionable aspects of a $41.3 billion spending plan that has been stitched together on a largely bipartisan basis after months of acrimony and political grandstanding.

Manufacturing

🔒Raising awareness to close the manufacturing skills gap

Q&A talks to Susan Palisano, the director of education and workforce development at the Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology Inc. (CCAT), which leads October's annual “Connecticut. Dream It. Do It. Manufacturing Month.”

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