Dec. 9, 2019 - Worcester Business Journal

News

🔒The new U.S. immigration policy is just so stupid

The U.S. can’t continue to have the world’s No. 1 economy with the world’s No. 3 population size without relying on outsiders coming in to help.

Nonprofits

🔒Pattie Hallberg brought the Girl Scouts into this century

The Girls Scouts of Central & Western Massachusetts moved into its new leadership center on Century Drive in Worcester, a move started nearly 12 years ago when three Girl Scout councils merged into one.

Opinion

🔒A Thousand Words: WooSox Logo

News

🔒Massachusetts must be national leader on immigration

In order to become a state where immigrants want to pursue the American dream, Massachusetts needs to do more than hang a Welcome sign on its front door.

Opinion

🔒Recruit great leaders with class, humor and respect

Business leaders like to think they have a view into the future and aspire to hire visionary recruits to bolster their team and reach the puck before their opponents.

Banking & Finance

Movers & Shakers for Dec. 9, 2019

Check out the latest promotions and hires in Central Massachusetts.

Advice

🔒101: Managerial training

Great employees don’t become great managers automatically, by osmosis. It takes strategy, focused development and training.

Advice

🔒The 10 commandments of entrepreneurs

Living the life of an entrepreneur is not for faint of heart. So arduous is this journey that entrepreneurs spend more days in the low of a valley and less straddling the high of a peak

Advice

🔒40 Things I Know About … Building galleries

Sometimes you can’t be patient, pay your vendors on time, insist on quality work, embrace the history, and build a generous contingency line into your budget.

Advice

🔒Empathy improves your business

Empathy puts everyone on the same level, and it is grounded in action, thoughtfulness, and connectivity.

Economy

🔒Seven Hills to revisit influential 2015 report on Worcester immigrants

Seven Hills Foundation has plans to revisit its influential 2015 report, which found foreign-born residents accounted for 37% of all business owners in Worcester and spent an estimated $472 million across the local economy that year.

Economy

🔒After toiling under communism, Albanian immigrants have found the American Dream in Worcester

To understand the Albanian community in Worcester, you need to understand some basic facts about Albania.

Economy

🔒Brazilian-Americans have transformed MetroWest communities like Framingham and Marlborough

In Framingham, the influx of Brazilians has been particularly crucial to the revival of a former mill town going through hard times.

Economy

🔒Visa program used by Central Mass. businesses for specialized workers under fire

When Central Massachusetts companies look to fill software, programming or research jobs, they’re increasingly looking to foreign labor under an immigrant work program called H-1B.

Real Estate

🔒Investors seeking Worcester multi-families

From January through October, the number of two- and three-family homes sold in Worcester increased by 7% compared to the same period a year ago.

Health Care

People are dying younger in Massachusetts

The mortality rate in Massachusetts has risen 12.1% since 2010, the 13th highest such increase in the country, a startling increase due in large part to the opioid epidemic and a rising suicide rate.

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