Feb. 19, 2024 - Worcester Business Journal

News

🔒From the Editor: The next evolution of craft beer

Now that the Central Massachusetts craft beer industry has grown up, it has entered the next phase of its evolution: corporatization.

Health Care

🔒Q&A: Worcester tech entrepreneur aims to put software on the moon

Brian Geisel went the Steve Jobs route and dropped out of college after a year to write software. His philosophy is to hire talented people who can write innovative code in the artificial-intelligence and machine-learning realms.

Opinion

🔒A Thousand Words: Hologic’s international layoffs

Hologic expects layoffs at international facilities in 2024, totaling up to $8 million in severance.

News

🔒Editorial: Embrace the new normal of borrowing costs

The tight economy may be loosening soon, but in order for that to happen, Central Massachusetts business leaders will need to embrace a new normal of borrowing costs and move forward with their plans.

Advice

🔒101: When and when not to rebrand

Rebranding can be painful, as company leaders who have undertaken the challenge of renaming a business and redesigning messaging and logos understand.

Opinion

🔒Viewpoint: Leveraging intelligence for a smarter community

The implications from the use of artificial intelligence, or AI, is a pressing question facing every consumer, employer, and policymaker.

Banking & Finance

Movers & Shakers for Feb. 19, 2024

Central Massachusetts professionals are getting hired and promoted at Saint Vincent Hospital, AAFCPAs, the Milford Physician Group, and the Telegram & Gazette.

Advice

🔒How government contractors can capitalize on the opportunities ahead

Here are four strategies government contractors should consider.

Advice

🔒5 Things I know about … Strategies for navigating a new environment

Tim Glispin, president of Sunshine Sign Co. in North Grafton, provides readers with some advice on navigating a new work environment.

Banking & Finance

🔒Watching the Fed: After a jump in rates over the last two years, banks are preparing for cuts to trigger more activity

For Central Massachusetts banks, rising interest rates are a lot of change to deal with.

Banking & Finance

🔒Reporting discrimination: New, but delayed, reporting requirements seek to identify bias in small business loan approvals and denials

While generally supportive of the new rule, the lending industry is concerned about the onus the new requirements put on banks.

Government & Politics

🔒Crafting a future: Wachusett Brewing’s acquisition is the latest signal of change in the craft beer industry, but a collaborative spirit remains

The simple narrative proclaiming the craft beer industry is dying may fit nicely into a headline or television news chyron, but it doesn’t begin to explain the complexities of the local craft beer space.

Economy

🔒Marlborough train station? A Mass. advocate is proposing a station for the MetroWest economic capital, but city officials don’t see it as a realistic...

Marlborough ceased to have passenger rail service in 1937.

Government & Politics

Fallon HQ proposed for $87M conversion into 200+ apartments

A letter of interest submitted by Synergy and included as part of the agenda packet for Tuesday’s City Council meeting says a plan to convert office space to housing of this magnitude has not been previously attempted in Massachusetts.

Feb. 19, 2024Edition

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