April 15, 2024 - Worcester Business Journal

Banking & Finance

Movers & Shakers for April 15, 2024

People are moving up at Cornerstone Bank, the Marlborough Economic Development Council, and bankHometown.

Energy

🔒Q&A: NORESCO is expanding its business of saving energy

Since its founding in 1984, NORESCO has guaranteed more than $5 billion in energy cost savings at more than 10,000 facilities, spanning the globe from Massachusetts to Japan.

News

🔒Editorial: Life sciences need another $1 billion

Before the state legislative session ends this year, lawmakers need to turn Gov. Maura Healey’s economic development proposal into reality.

Opinion

🔒Viewpoint: Remembering Larry Lucchino

Larry revolutionized how baseball parks are built, and recruiting him to move the Pawtucket Red Sox to Worcester and build Polar Park was an opportunity to redevelop 21 acres of property contaminated for 40+ years to create a true mixed-use district centered around the ballpark.

Advice

🔒101: Streamlining bookkeeping for small businesses

Separating your personal and business expenses is the first step to organizing your accounts.

Advice

🔒How Greater Worcester small business owners can find success in 2024

As the second quarter of 2024 begins, it’s a good time for Greater Worcester business owners to reflect on the state of their businesses and the factors mattering most to their success.

Advice

🔒5 Things I know about … Still overlooked money basics

Despite the volume of financial information, the importance of going back to basics cannot be understated.

Advice

🔒Self-leadership: The key to unlocking your company’s full potential

Leaders who struggle with handling conflict may be limiting themselves and their team in significant ways, both personally and professionally.

Banking & Finance

🔒Gov. Healey’s proposed $1B life sciences reauthorization has Central Mass. leaders thinking big

For the burgeoning life sciences hub that is Central Massachusetts, Governor Maura Healey’s $3.5-billion Mass Leads Act economic development proposal looks to add fuel to fires.

Banking & Finance

🔒Preventing type 1 diabetes: UMass Chan researcher developing skin treatment, with potential broader applications to prevent diabetes

Now professor and chair of the Department of Dermatology at UMass Chan, Harris has founded a vitiligo pharmaceutical company and is about to launch a 1,000-person vitiligo study.

Arts & Entertainment

🔒HollyWoo production, halted: The industry built around Central Mass. moviemaking reached new heights in the early 2020s, before 2023 pressed pause

Once a production desert, Central Massachusetts has seen a large increase in Hollywood-related activity in the past 15 years. Then, the strikes came.

News

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