Feb. 21, 2022 - Worcester Business Journal

Arts & Entertainment

🔒Worcester 300 trivia contest, part 4: Early Hollywood

Samuel Behrman contributed as a screenwriter on three movies for what famous Hollywood actor, including her last film “Two-Faced Woman”?

Banking & Finance

🔒Q&A: Bird & Bear owner pivoted from the corporate world to collective

As a small business owner, Erin Reardon Defoyd has forged her own path, leveraging powerful insights gleaned from more than a decade of corporate experience.

Opinion

🔒A Thousand Words: Business confidence

News

🔒Editorial: Colleges are in for a reckoning

While some industries have thrived, the pandemic certainly hasn’t made life any easier for Central Massachusetts colleges and universities.

Opinion

🔒Opinion: Affordable house is key to the city’s future

The housing deficit our commonwealth faces, along with increasing construction costs and exclusionary zoning practices, has driven the price of new homes to record highs.

News

🔒Movers & Shakers for Feb. 21, 2022

People are on the move at Central One Federal Credit Union, Country Bank, and more.

Advice

🔒101: Employee feedback matters

Open communication leads to a better work culture. So it stands to reason soliciting more employee feedback on management, company policies, and operational processes can only be a good thing.

Advice

🔒What to know before taking out a business loan

A business loan can get you the money you need to jump start a new venture, expand current operations, or purchase equipment.

Advice

🔒10 Things I know about … Hiring creatives

Hiring is always tricky, but investing in creative talent to help your business can be a massive brand differentiator and solve marketing challenges.

Banking & Finance

🔒Central Mass. banking sees continued life for paper currency

With all factors considered, are we headed toward a totally electronic banking industry, where coins and paper money are a thing of the past? It seems the answer would be yes, but Central Massachusetts banking leaders say no.

Banking & Finance

🔒Local bank consolidation: Community banks look for like-minded partners

Sometimes banks opt to consolidate in order to offer their clients access to bigger loans and better resources, while other times they unite as a competitive strategy against banks with more assets.

Arts & Entertainment

🔒The year of the startup: Central Mass. entrepreneurialism soared to new heights in 2021

The Great Resignation is plaguing employers large and small, and one hotly debated question has hiring managers asking where, exactly, all the quitting employees are moving to.

Banking & Finance

🔒Students seeking out alternatives to the college investment, leaving institutions in financial precarity

Two years of pandemic-related enrollment declines are sure to have considerable impacts on colleges, but educators say the problem could be more long-term.

Arts & Entertainment

Report: Polar Park hotel delayed to 2025, office building to 2024

Completion dates for the office and hotel buildings in Madison Properties’ development across the street from Worcester’s...

Feb. 21, 2022Edition

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