September 26, 2022 - Hartford Business Journal

Economy & Labor

🔒Employee relationships are key to a business’s success

When you hear the term “business relationships” what pops into your head? Customers? Naturally. They are the relationships that matter the most. Or, are they? There are suppliers, vendors, partners, etc. These are the resources that keep the business operating. You need parts to manufacture product. You need IT, telecom and accounting support. All of […]

Politics & Policy

🔒Bordonaro: Gubernatorial candidates find bipartisan agreement on need for public-private partnerships

Public-private partnerships are not a sexy political talking point, even in an election year when the state’s...

Cannabis

🔒Cannabis entrepreneur Hercules hopes to open 60,000-sq.-ft. grow facility in Greater Hartford

As one of the first in the state to get a provisional cannabis license, Tiana Hercules is...

Manufacturing

🔒CT manufacturers embrace virtual reality to recruit and train employees, test new products

From large-scale producers to small machine shops, Connecticut manufacturers are increasingly turning to virtual reality technology as...

Health Care

🔒Hartford’s CareCentrix, a ‘First Five’ company, has new majority owner

One of Hartford’s fastest-growing private companies last decade has a new majority owner. In a deal that got...

Health Care

🔒Ending a Vicious Cycle: The Hartford’s partnership with Yale seeks to help businesses combat addiction, pain and stigma

Property and casualty insurer The Hartford has partnered with the Yale School of Medicine to launch a...

Small Business

🔒Recent spate of startup mergers highlights growth of CT’s innovation ecosystem, raises concerns about long-term job growth

A number of high-profile Connecticut startups have been acquired in recent months, raising some concerns about their...

News

🔒Social Equity Council finalizing low-interest loan, accelerator programs ahead of adult-use cannabis launch

As Connecticut’s cannabis social equity licensing process nears a close over the next few months, state officials...

Cannabis

🔒Northeast cannabis regulators talk similarities, differences between states’ adult-use programs

While many Northeast states are launching recreational cannabis markets at the same time, how their programs get...

Education

🔒As new CEO of community college system, Maduko to oversee major consolidation plan, attempt to reverse declining enrollment

Most new CEOs aren’t brought into an organization in the middle of a major merger. But that’s the...

Hospitality & Tourism

September 26, 2022Edition

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