February 18, 2019 - Worcester Business Journal

Manufacturing

Pink boots: Mass. brewing industry is a national leader in woman participation

Worcester Business Journal surveyed 20 Central Massachusetts breweries on the gender breakdown of their employees, and – of the 16 who responded – 43 percent of the workers were women.

Advice

101: Facilitate learning

Successful companies encourage employee learning. Too often, education and professional development focuses only on top-tier employees, which is a mistake,

News

Our first Women in Leadership edition

Rather than focus solely on one report, WBJ decided to look more wholly at trends surrounding women in positions of power and launched our first ever Women in Leadership edition.

Advice

Common misconceptions of the pass-through deduction

Even though the U.S. Tax Cut and Jobs Act is more than a year old, businesses are still scrambling to figure out how the so-called pass-through deduction is supposed to work.

News

Spinelli struck out on her own to build a woman-owned CPA firm

Karen Spinelli left Robert C. Alario Certified Public Accountants to start her own accounting firm, launching one of the certified woman-owned CPA firms in Worcester.

Education

The Boardroom Gap: Central Mass. businesses slightly improve inclusion of women in leadership

Women continue to be vastly outnumbered by men at Central Mass. public companies, though improvement has been found in some areas.

Education

$416K vs. $220K: The Central Mass. executive gender pay gap grew in 2018

The gap of pay between Central Mass. male and female executives increased in the last year, as men continue to hold higher-paying positions.

Opinion

Women of color must lead by example

While the political arena offers a glimmer of hope, it's a fleeting one as the business world still shows little progress for women of color.

News

How you listen impacts sales success

Listening well is a foundational tenet for sales success. Therefore, being cognizant of how we listen is critical because it profoundly impacts conversations, relationships and results.

Government & Politics

Caroline’s Cannabis bucks the big marijuana industry trend

Caroline's Cannabis s the first woman-owned small business and the first general applicant to be awarded a final state license to sell marijuana products.

News

Time to start paying attention to education reform

Education reform is not a topic readily coming to mind when businesses start lobbying the Massachusetts legislature...

Retail

Through a group text spanning six years, five entrepreneurs have created their own support network

Five Worcester entrepreneurs who loosely knew of each other began to coalesce in 2013 thanks to a group text.

Advice

10 Things I Know About … Serving on nonprofit boards

Show up. Regularly attend board and committee meetings to ensure you are a known presence and well informed of the operations.

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