Before he was a management professor at Nichols College, Leonard Samborowski worked for the head of army intelligence at the Pentagon, where he used data analytics to predict the outcome of possible military moves.
While the recession brought professionals back to school to continue their education in droves, a rosier economic picture has diminished the swell somewhat. But the recession had lasting impacts on higher education in particular.
Becker College has named Seven Hills Foundation President and CEO David Jordan as the first director of a new center that will focus on how business can identify and solve social problems, the Worcester school announced Wednesday.
As if running the largest nonprofit in Central Massachusetts wasn't enough for him, if you blink too long, David Jordan will likely have acquired a new role in the community, shaping the region with some new responsibilities.
The Massachusetts office of the U.S. Small Business Administration has awarded Natick-based Middlesex Savings Bank with its Lender of the Year to New Business Award.
Clark University in Worcester was one of 14 organization honored nationally by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for diverting food waste out of landfills.
Worcester State University will be the first higher education campus in New England to make use of a freight farm with a 40-foot shipping container set to yield an acre's worth of fresh produce for the campus' dining hall.