September 26, 2016 EditionEdition

🔒Continuing and Graduate Education for Professionals and Executives

In today's competitive business world, the need to build and expand job competencies and professional know-how has never been greater.

🔒Deringer-Ney’s Bloomfield site for sale at $2.2M

The Deringer-Ney Inc. commercial property in Bloomfield's Ney Industrial Park is on the market for sale at $2.2 million or for lease, brokers say.

🔒Tips to becoming a better boss

“Supervision Matters: 100 Bite-Sized Ideas to Transform You and Your Team” by Rita Sever (She Writes Press,...

🔒Entrepreneur ‘pitch’ culture spreads across CT

Glastonbury resident Marien Zanyk walked on stage at a UConn auditorium in Farmington this month and looked out at an audience of more than 60 investors, bankers, attorneys and other supporters of the state's entrepreneurial ecosystem.
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🔒Barwis infuses startup culture at Bristol Hospital

Kurt Barwis was an aspiring artist who loved to paint, draw and sculpt in high school, but interning as a messenger for a law firm active in entertainment exposed him to other possibilities. He met noted musicians, ran errands in a law partner's Porsche and saw a different side of life.

🔒Valente is Hartford’s paper records archivist

On the office wall of Frank Valente Jr.'s Laurel Street office is a framed original blueprint, circa 1860, of an insurance company's fire sprinkler system. Near that artifact is a framed original front page of The Connecticut Courant (later to be known as The Hartford Courant) from Sept. 24, 1798.

🔒New Country donates school supplies to Hartford students

New Country Motor's third annual “Stuff a MINI to the Max” campaign provided hundreds of Hartford Public...

🔒Hartford’s Pratt St. makeover nearly done

The sight of construction and work crews along Pratt Street in downtown Hartford since April has been frustrating for merchants, landlords, motorists and pedestrians.
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🔒Hartford Yard Goats give back to community

Members of the Hartford Yard Goats staff, including General Manager Tim Restall, recently spent the day building...

🔒Election year tax-cut proposals should draw voter skepticism

Election-year politics often bring about grandiose promises from candidates looking to win office and this year is no different.

🔒UConn medical school unveils new curriculum

Q&A talks about the UConn School of Medicine's revised curriculum with Dr. Suzanne Rose, senior associate dean for education.

🔒Why our students need to embrace STEM now

The talent pipeline for science, technology and advanced manufacturing jobs in the United States needs an enormous boost of interested kids — and fast.
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🔒CT CPAs hold Charity Kickball Tournament

The Connecticut Society of CPAs New and Young Professionals Group recently held its seventh annual Charity Kickball...

🔒Nonprofit Profile: TheaterWorks Inc.

The Wilson-Gray YMCA Youth & Family Center received a $2,200 grant from The ValMark Securities Global Gift...

🔒How to mess up a business without breaking a sweat

No matter their strengths, businesses, like people, are always at risk. Some dangers are so blatant they dare being ignored. But others, far less obvious, cause untold — and even fatal — damage, eating away and undermining a company's best efforts. Their work is insidious and relentless, going unnoticed until it's too late. And it all happens without anyone breaking a sweat.

🔒Helmar Wolf Named South Windsor Chamber of Commerce Business Person of the Year

Helmar Wolf, CEO of the Mill Restaurant Group, has been selected as the 2016 South Windsor Chamber...
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🔒Business schools, colleges wooing foreign students

When Jonas Rasmussen, a native of Denmark, arrived at the University of Hartford in 2015 to pursue a master's degree in business administration, it was in many ways the fulfillment of a dream.

🔒Colleges boost entrepreneurship classes, seminars

Architectural photographer Heather Conley calls the people at the University of Hartford's Entrepreneurial Center a trusted team in her village of advisers, mentors and supporters.
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