Feb. 7, 2022 - Worcester Business Journal

Opinion

🔒A Thousand Words: Off to NASA

Education

🔒Worcester 300 trivia contest, part 3

What is the name of the student housing development now occupying the Osgood Bradley Building?

Health Care

🔒Movers & Shakers for Feb. 7, 2022

People are on the move at JNP Coffee, Ladybugz Interactive Agency, Harrington Physician Services, and more.

Advice

🔒101: Mission statements

A mission statement – usually part of an organization’s executive summary in its business plan and posted on its website for stakeholders – is a brief message explaining a company’s purpose.

Advice

🔒10 Things I know about … Being a single working parent

Parenting is hard; single parenting is harder; being a working single parent is hardest. These tips make it easier.

Real Estate

🔒Q&A: Paladino’s exploratory approach to designing homes

In 2021, Boston Magazine named Mellowes & Paladino its top Traditional Architect. Although Robert Paladino's work is informed by a traditional palette, he is known for taking an exploratory approach to arrive at innovative design solutions to residences.

News

🔒Editorial: Thanking a generation of women leaders

Progress is slow. Progress is painful. Progress happens in fits and starts.

Opinion

🔒Viewpoint: Help women of color succeed

Facebook has this feature showing you random memories of what was shared on that day in the past. I used to love them, but now, in COVID times, the memories feel like decades ago instead of a handful of years.

Advice

🔒Future-proofing our workforce

Across Central Massachusetts, restaurants, retail shops and firms are facing employee shortages. With employees in the driver’s...

Advice

🔒Successful leaders center ‘belonging’

There must be an intentional mindfulness of leaders who commit to diversity, equity, inclusion and justice work.

Diversity & Inclusion

🔒The Boardroom Gap: Women’s power in labor unions is rising, although Central Mass. lags behind

While organized labor has historically been hallmarked by the male-dominated trades, unionized women seem to be fueling a new era in the movement, particularly in industries highly impacted by the coronavirus pandemic like health care, education, and hospitality.

Diversity & Inclusion

🔒The Boardroom Gap: Women still fight barriers to advancement, as their role in Central Mass. business leadership stagnates

In its annual The Boardroom Gap investigation of gender diversity in the region’s business leadership, WBJ found 37% of executives & board members are women, unchanged from 2021.

Diversity & Inclusion

🔒The president of the largest Central Mass. physician group spent her career advancing science and diversity in ophthalmology

Schaal came to the U.S. to take an ophthalmology fellowship at the University of Louisville, after receiving both her medical and doctoral degrees in Israel and serving as a physician in the Israeli navy.

Banking & Finance

Feb. 7, 2022Edition

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