June 24, 2019 - Worcester Business Journal

Manufacturing

A 354-year-old agent of change

Tom Kinisky spent 12 years working in Worcester for Saint-Gobain Abrasives, watching the community and the region’s manufacturing industry begin its transformation into what it is today.

Opinion

A Thousand Words: WRA baseball signs

News

Planting the seeds of innovation

Massachusetts Biomedical Initiatives in June held an event reflecting on nearly four decades of growth in the Central Massachusetts life and health sciences cluster, particularly around MBI’s home in Worcester.

Opinion

A healthy Worcester needs affordable housing

In our effort to attract the best and brightest doctors, nurses and other caregivers to Worcester, our future colleagues have a healthy stock of homes to choose from. An inadequate stock puts employers in the region at a competitive disadvantage.

Opinion

Construction, WooSox & regulation are killing Canal District dreams

It’s a scary time to be a business owner.

Movers & Shakers

Movers & Shakers for June 24

CONSTANZA CABELLO is the new vice president for diversity, inclusion and community engagement at Framingham State University,...

News

101: Workplace violence

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries, of the 5,147 fatal U.S. workplace injuries in 2017, 458 were cases of intentional injury by another person.

Advice

Don’t follow Silicon Valley startup advice

Silicon Valley investors and their ilk seek the next big thing to grab market share, and produce fame and Jeff Bezos-sized wealth. They call it disruption.

Advice

40 Things I Know About … Running an arts nonprofit

Nonprofit doesn’t mean no profit.

Advice

Don’t touch my hair!

I vividly remember at 8 years old, sitting on a swing next to my white friend, Kate,...

Energy

A Holliston startup wants fuel cell vehicles across Massachusetts

Hydrogen, or fuel cell, vehicles might be the next big thing to wean drivers off greenhouse gas-emitting vehicles.

Life Sciences

MBI’s Worcester expansion should get more biotech startups off the ground

Inside dozens of closet-sized laboratories in three different Worcester buildings is a goldmine of biotechnology brainpower and...

Education

Colleges: The SAT’s latest revision isn’t enough to embrace standardized testing again

Even as standardized tests try to regain some of their lost luster, nearly all Central Massachusetts colleges have found more holistic ways to assess applicants’ potential and aren’t looking back.

Government & Politics

On the fly: Massachusetts’ marijuana businesses and regulators are adapting to the slow rollout of the industry

Startup costs for the cannabis industry can be prohibitive unless a firm has connections to deep-pocketed investors,...

News

Panel: Central Mass. is becoming its own biotech cluster

Thanks to several decades of hard work and planning and the growth of life science business parks...

June 24, 2019Edition

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