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March 6, 2023
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2023 Business Leaders of the Year

The five 2023 Business Leaders of the Year all share one trait, which has led to their success: love.

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    Business Leaders of the Year: Hylton provides dignity in mental health services

    Isabel Tehan

    At Jennifer Hylton’s Counseling & Assessment Clinic of Worcester, word choice matters.

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    Business Leaders of the Year: Klein never stopped growing Greenwood

    Kevin Koczwara

    David Klein started Greenwood Industries in the hopes of working with his dad. Now, the roofing and contracting company is one of the biggest in the country.

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    Business Leaders of the Year: Cormier has grown her mother’s natural food legacy

    Isabel Tehan

    When the cafe at Roots Natural Food opened on Valentine’s Day 2023, after shuttering for the entirety of the coronavirus pandemic, it was a reopening with intention.

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    Business Leaders of the Year: Champagne is the godfather of cold spray

    Kevin Koczwara

    Victor Champagne has always been a planner. The 60-year-old additive manufacturing lead of the U.S. Army Research Laboratory went into engineering because it was a practical choice.

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    WBJ Hall of Fame: Alden nearly doubled the size of Bay State Savings Bank

    Livia Gershon

    When he was growing up in New Hampshire, Peter Alden’s dad was a banker, but he didn’t start out wanting to follow in the family business.

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    WBJ Hall of Fame: Nosike pioneered cultural competency in health care

    Isabel Tehan

    Nosike opened her business, Acclaim Home Health Care, in 2005 after an initial career as a physical therapist in England and her home country of Nigeria.

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    WBJ Hall of Fame: Shepherd built up two cornerstones of the Worcester community

    Emily Micucci

    Shepherd leads the former Shepherd & Goldstein (rebranded to S&G in light of the pair’s eventual retirement) on a reduced schedule of 40 hours per week alongside his new co-managing partner, Matthew Allison.

  • Fallon Health CEO and president to retire

    Isabel Tehan

    Richard Burke, the president and CEO of Fallon Health, is retiring from his role at the end of the year.

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    Don’t compromise quality, no matter the cost

    Renee Diaz

    The past three years of business have been less than ideal.

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    10 Things I know about ... ChatGPT

    Michelle Drolet

    ChatGPT is a language model developed by OpenAI, a research organization dedicated to creating and promoting friendly artificial intelligence (AI).

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    101: Job abandonment

    Susan Shalhoub

    It’s called job abandonment, and it happens more often in shift work. In addition to causing concern for their welfare, from an HR standpoint, it calls for careful handling in case of litigation.

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    The office is not just a physical place. It’s a state of mind!

    Mark Agostinelli

    The coronavirus pandemic brought about an immediate shift to working from home, and it was fantastic. That said, over the longer term, professionals will suffer from not spending most of their time in an office.

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    A Thousand Words: UMass vs. UMass

    Ramón L. Sandoval

    A legal battle is being fought between UMass Chan Medical School and UMass Memorial Health over millions of dollars from UMass Memorial’s 2019 sale of its stake in Shields Health Solutions to Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc.

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    Viewpoint: Collaboration is key in strengthening the workforce across Mass.

    Roy Nascimento

    Since employers are struggling to find skilled labor, the North Central Massachusetts Chamber of Commerce this year published a study focusing on workforce growth barriers, especially those related to geography, skills, and work-life balance.

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    Editorial: Growing opportunities in a growing region

    From 2010 to 2020, the population of Central Massachusetts grew 8.1%, outpacing both the state and national averages, while closing in on nearly 1.3 million people throughout Worcester County and the MetroWest region. While all that change has caused some headaches, like a lack of affordable housing, it has created plenty of opportunities.

  • Movers & Shakers for March 6, 2023

    People are on the move at the Family Health Center of Worcester, AdCare Hospital in Worcester, the Worcester law firm Bowditch & Dewey, the Estate Preservation Law Offices, MutualOne Bank in Framingham, Framingham State University, and UMass Memorial Health in Worcester.

Today's Poll

Will the life sciences industry play a bigger role in the Central Mass. economy over the next few years?
Poll Description

Life sciences has been the hot industry in Central Massachusetts over the last few years, as the region looks to leverage its proximity to the global Cambridge-Boston innovation hub and cement biomanufacturing and biotech as cornerstone industries of the area economy. Major prospective development projects are underway in Worcester, Devens, and Marlborough, as many Central Massachusetts communities hope to capture an industry expansion. Yet, after significant growth in the early 2020s, the life sciences industry has been in a down cycle over the last couple of years, with Greater Boston companies laying off workers and an overbuilt lab market further slowing any new developments. Data released by the Cambridge-based Massachusetts Biotechnology Council in late August shows Worcester County was the sole Massachusetts region to gain biomanufacturing jobs between 2022 and 2023. Worcester County added 279 new jobs, accounting for a 11.8% jump in growth. In contrast, Norfolk, Essex, Middlesex, and Suffolk counties saw a combined loss of 556 jobs. These industry jobs numbers come as leaders await the outcome of the Massachusetts House-passed $1-billion life sciences reauthorization initiative as it stalls in the Senate.

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