Feb. 8, 2021Edition

On Jan. 1, Worcester Polytechnic Institute alumna Debora Jackson took over as dean of its Foisie Business School. A member of WPI’s board of trustees and experienced in STEM and business professions, Jackson brought a new level of diversity to the role: her background in seminary.

In a year with a lot of bad news, we have some good to share.

If we want to close the gap of women in leadership, we, as women, really need to support each other.

People are on the move at UMass Memorial Medical Center and North Brookfield Savings Bank.

New technologies continue to disrupt industries year after year, re-writing the rules of engagement, paving the way...

One of the single most important positive qualities of a leader is the ability to lead with authenticity.

There are many reasons supervisors may deliver warnings to employees whose conduct negatively impacts business, such as customer complaints, repeat absenteeism or contributing to a toxic work environment.

The saying “Kill them with kindness,” is instruction to be nice to the people who mistreat you, in an effort to pacify them, stop the mistreatment, or endure it. In combating racism, kindness will never be enough.

For decades, women have been moving closer to equality with men in the workplace, particularly in workforce participation and pay. A once-in-a-century pandemic has undone much of that progress.

The day before Vice President Kamala Harris assumed office on Jan. 20, the internet was aflutter with posts reiterating variations of the same momentous sentence: “This is the last day that we can say there has never been a woman vice president.”

When Kate Tobiasson, a Westborough resident who spent nearly 15 years working as an English teacher at three different Central Massachusetts school districts, was about to give birth to her first son in February 2013, she had fortunately saved enough accrued paid time off over several years. 

When Kamala Harris was sworn in as the country’s first female vice president, the Natick-based women’s clothing company Nic + Zoe celebrated the milestone on Instagram.

The College of the Holy Cross in Worcester has received its largest-ever estate gift: $23.5 million from a former member of the Worcester school's board of trustees, who along with her late husband — a famed lawyer and sports team owner — were generous contributors to the school.