WBJ Staff

Saint-Gobain, a French corporation with a major manufacturing site in Worcester, is among the world's most sustainably managed companies, according to a ranking  weighing environmental considerations, employee, workplace and societal issues, and innovation.

A specialty pharmacy partnership between UMass Memorial Medical Center and Shields Health Solutions has brought significant cost savings for patients, according to a study published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association's Network Open.

UMass Memorial Health Care is one of seven hospital systems in Massachusetts to make an honor roll of those best using technology to improve care.

TV and movie fans likely know him as Rudy in the football movie of the same name or as Samwise Gamgee in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, but the actor behind those and other roles, Sean Astin, has a story to tell about his mother's bipolar disorder and will speak Wednesday night at a fundraiser for the Worcester nonprofit Shine Initiative.

A UMass Medical School researcher has obtained a $2-million grant to study how fat cells differ in people with and without type 2 diabetes.

A Burlington investment and development firm has paid $7.2 million for a vacant industrial building on Goddard Memorial Drive just down the street from the Worcester Regional Airport.

WBJ announced its 2020 Manufacturing Excellence Awards on Monday, featuring an array of businesses — and one advocate — who have both collectively and individually helped shape the Central Massachusetts manufacturing industry for the better. 

Framingham video game technology company Beamable, formerly known as Disruptor Beam, has filed for bankruptcy.

At the end of September, the historic Worcester performance venue Mechanics Hall decided it will add the first portraits of Black Americans to its Great Hall gallery, a move falling about 20 years after the first portraits of women were placed on the walls of the 163-year-old facility.

People are on the move at UMass Medical School, Bay State Savings Bank, Greater Worcester Community Foundation and more.