September 18, 2017 Edition - Hartford Business Journal

Arts & Culture

🔒Q&A with UConn’s Mark Overmyer-Velázquez

The director of UConn’s new campus that opened in downtown Hartford Aug. 28 is a professor and musician — and he knows what it takes to help conduct an educational enterprise as an elected member and past chair of the West Hartford board of education.

Education

🔒New Country Motor donates school supplies

New Country Motor Cars collected over 100 backpacks filled with school supplies during its fourth Annual “Stuff...

Politics & Policy

🔒Managers, executives must lead with empathy

Empathy fuels connection and at the highest levels in any organization, relationships are how work gets done. The higher one climbs, technical acumen becomes less important than relational acumen. Efficacy as a leader increasingly depends upon emotional intelligence, or EQ, over IQ.

Advertising, Media & Marketing

🔒Maier ending well-composed ad career

Bill Maier is still getting used to letting go of the Farmington advertising agency that bears his name — after all, it was his life for 46 years.

Health Care

🔒Insurers, doctors work to curb opioid prescriptions

Health insurers are wielding their significant influence and claims data to address the nation's opioid crisis and are making headway in a key battlefront: encouraging doctors to prescribe fewer opioids that can turn addictive and deadly.

News

🔒Marketing agency holds annual ‘Cronin Cares’ program

Glastonbury marketing agency Cronin recently executed its fifth annual “Cronin Cares” week.Volunteer groups visited: The Friendship Service...

News

🔒Friar Architecture collects backpacks and supplies

Friar Architecture used the open house celebration of its new Farmington office to raise awareness for The...

News

🔒New Britain firm recognized for landscape work

TO Design LLC in New Britain recently received the inaugural Landscape/Planning Merit Award for its Gateways at...

Hospitality & Tourism

🔒Downtown Hartford restaurateurs invest in renovations, eateries to compete

Max Restaurant Group shuttered its flagship property, Max Downtown, this summer for a $1.5 million facelift aimed at modernizing Max's look, broadening its customer demographic and competing with restaurant powerhouse West Hartford, where Max also has a formidable presence.

News

🔒Dealing with the at-risk customer

When your customers are silent, do you take that as a sign they are happy? If your company has the attitude that “no news is good news” when it comes to your customers, here's a surprise: No news is rarely good news.

Politics & Policy

🔒Bank branch activity

The state Department of Banking has received several requests for new bank branch openings and closings in Greater Hartford as well as other activity. They include:

News

🔒‘Rethinking Corporate Education in a World of Unrelenting Change’

“Learning to Succeed: Rethinking Corporate Education in a World of Unrelenting Change” by Jason Wingard (AMACOM, $29.95).Decades...

Advertising, Media & Marketing

🔒Hearst bets big on Connecticut’s media industry

When pressed about the benefits that will be brought to bear by Hearst's recent purchase of three Connecticut dailies, a magazine and eight weeklies, Hearst Newspapers President Mark Aldam had a simple response: “Scale matters.”

Subscriber Only

🔒Loss of landline customers gives Frontier early headaches in CT

Frontier Communications spent $2 billion in 2014 to purchase AT&T's Connecticut wireline business, hoping to stem a longtime cord-cutting trend and gain customers in the competitive internet and cable TV market.

Economic Development

🔒Let private sector woo Amazon to CT

There's been lots of hubbub lately about Amazon's decision to open a second headquarters, where it plans to employ 50,000 workers earning an average salary of $100,000.

Advertising, Media & Marketing

🔒Ad campaign seeks to rebrand Hartford Club

Q&A talks with Tony Cashman, president and CEO of Glastonbury integrated communications firm Cashman + Katz, about the Hartford Club's ongoing ad campaign and other industry trends.

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