September 4, 2017 EditionEdition

When Robert E. Patricelli sold his majority stake in Avon-based Women's Health USA people wondered what's next for the 77-year-old serial-entrepreneur? Patricelli had launched three successful startup health ventures since leaving Cigna in 1986. In August, Sverica Capital Management LLC of San Francisco and Boston acquired a majority interest in Women's Health USA (Whusa), a national physician practice management organization.

Last year, with demand and wait times for pediatric sleep tests on the rise, executives at Connecticut Children's Medical Center knew they needed to do something.

About half of Bradley International Airport's passengers — more than 3 million a year at last count — are business travelers, a number airport officials want to boost as they try to make the state's flagship airfield a more powerful economic driver.

Working in construction is rough on the body, particularly as workers age.

Nutmeg Big Brothers Big Sisters recently held its Annual Golf Classic. The event drew over 200 golfers...

Nutmeg State Financial Credit Union has donated 300 backpacks, filled with school supplies, to students in need...

People's United Bank has been recognized by the Financial Services Roundtable with the Corporate Social Responsibility Leadership...

Q&A talks with Allison Grealis, president and founder of the Women in Manufacturing Summit, which will take place Sept. 13-15 at the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford.

Carrier, part of UTC Climate, Controls & Security, a unit of United Technologies, has donated more than...

Critics bleated when Dunkin' Donuts Park was proposed, overbudget and delayed, but after the $71 million, 6,000-seat baseball stadium opened in April, many would be kidding to say it's not a huge hit.

On a recent summer morning at the state Department of Labor in Wethersfield, Stephen Lattanzio, principal attorney with DOL's Office of Program Policy, schooled about a dozen human resource managers and other professionals about the complexities of Connecticut's drug-testing laws.

With Connecticut's budget stalemate now lingering through the end of summer, the uncertainty and turmoil at the state Capitol has reached levels that people have not seen in decades.

If you've already received this week's print edition of the Hartford Business Journal, you've probably noticed some changes.

Fran Pastore exudes a passion for women's economic empowerment through business ownership — a mission she's dedicated herself to the last 20 years as founder and CEO of the Women's Business Development Council.

As the state of Connecticut slips further into financial uncertainty and as Hartford contemplates bankruptcy, the organizations that provide supportive services for our community members are more important than ever. Nonprofit organizations, by principal and policy, are dedicated to the common good and deliver important services that would otherwise be the responsibility of our fiscally stressed governments or for-profit businesses.

“The Power of People Skills — How to Eliminate 90% of Your HR Problems and Dramatically Increase Team and Company Morale and Performance” by Trevor Throness (Career Press, $16.99).