Feb. 17, 2020 - Worcester Business Journal

Education

🔒Q&A: From an immigrant background, new HMEA CEO to focus on dignity & diversity

As a light-skinned woman of color, Jule Gomes Noack has seen how discrimination is applied to people with disabilities, similar to what she dealt with growing up.

Opinion

🔒A Thousand Words: Table Talk tax break

News

🔒Editorial: Mass. needs a law to get women on public company boards

The time may have come for Massachusetts to consider adopting a law similar to ones in California and Western Europe, either requiring or recommending public companies have a certain number of women on their boards of directors.

Opinion

🔒Greater Worcester nonprofits need female leaders of color

How can a city as diverse as ours and a sector serving to support all communities not find one woman of color for the five female nonprofit leadership who retired in 2019?

Banking & Finance

Movers & Shakers for Feb. 17, 2020

Check out the latest Central Massachusetts professionals getting hired and promoted.

Advice

🔒101: Business intelligence

Experts weigh in on business intelligenace, and how it works with analytics to support better business decisions.

Advice

🔒Five tips for managing a remote team

The popularity of remote teams has exploded and here are tips on building culture and managing a remote team.

Advice

🔒10 Things I know about … Where Millennial professionals meet for lunch in Worcester

Make no mistake, Worcester Millennials still love the time-tested mainstay restaurants that are Baby Boomer and Generation X favorites for business lunches. But, when meeting each other for lunch in or around downtown, Millennials opt for something different.

Advice

🔒Who are you at work?

Do you feel like you have to leave a part of who you are behind when you enter your workplace each day? Perhaps you do this in order to fit in, to feel accepted, to be safe, or to make others feel comfortable.

Banking & Finance

🔒Disrespected: Sexual harassment leaves professional women & their companies dealing with the fallout

These stories from seven Central Mass. women professionals detail how sexual harassment has long-lasting and wide-ranging impact on people and company productivity.

Banking & Finance

🔒The Boardroom Gap III: Mass. legislators eye laws requiring women on public company boards

One bill filed last year by Sen. Jason Lewis (D-Winchester), would require any public company headquartered in Mass. to have at least one female board member by the end of 2021.

Banking & Finance

🔒The Boardroom Gap III: Central Mass. has regressed in the percent of women in business leadership

A 2019 WBJ investigation into the gender breakdown of the leadership at 75 Central Massachusetts prominent business organizations found 35% were women, an increase from 33% in 2018. This year, the percentage went backward.

Real Estate

🔒More need for online fulfillment centers has turned the I-495 belt into a distribution hub

Fueled by the demand for distribution space to fulfill burgeoning online sales orders, the Central Massachusetts’ industrial market was among many regions in the U.S. to reap the benefits last year.

News

🔒Her story is what matters

When you read reporter Sarah Connell’s feature “Disrespected” you will notice not all the details are there, as we wanted to create a safe space for the women who were willing to relay their experiences of sexual harassment.

Feb. 17, 2020Edition

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