March 16, 2020 - Worcester Business Journal

Banking & Finance

🔒Q&A: blumshapiro has found a beautiful match in Worcester’s middle market

Brian Renstrom has spent his career helping his employers consult middle-market companies, and his company, blumshapiro, opened a Worcester office in November.

News

🔒The Massachusetts public records law needs consequences

Massachusetts has a decent public records law, although legislators aren't subject to it and it lacks real teeth for enforcement, as there are few consequences when governments drag their feet.

Opinion

🔒A Thousand Words: Worcester job growth

Opinion

🔒ESG, big data and the future of work

Mid-sized businesses face tremendous opportunities, as well as some challenges, as we look ahead in 2020.

Banking & Finance

Movers & Shakers for March 16, 2020

Reliant Medical Group, Leominster Credut Union, bankHometown, UMass Memorial Medical Group, Vision Advertising, and St. Mary's Credit Union have all added or promoted employees.

Advice

🔒101: Evaluating training

Companies know they need to train new employees, but today, training all employees takes on new importance in terms of retention.

Advice

🔒Failure to respond can be costly for your business

If your business receives a written complaint from a consumer, you should think twice before simply tossing it aside.

Advice

🔒Worcester needs to provide synergistic startup benefits

Can Worcester supply that and the other resources Phenic Natural Skincare needs to grow?

Advice

🔒10 Things I know about … Cybersecurity

10) High priority. 64% of businesses are prioritizing IT security above everything else and 80% of small and medium businesses rank IT security as a top business priority.

Arts & Entertainment

🔒Central Mass. executives still find golf to be the perfect combination of business development and leisure

Many Central Massachusetts executives see golf as not only a way to make or keep connections in the business world, but also as a passion.

Arts & Entertainment

🔒WooSox banking on meeting space to keep Polar Park busy all year

Even in the minor leagues, today’s ballparks don’t just serve to host baseball games.

Agriculture

🔒Food Love: Thanks to a Sturbridge chef, two entrepreneurs have a match made in farm-to-table heaven

The two seemingly unrelated and exciting developments this year in the Worcester food scene can both be traced to four people at a Boston comedy show 18 months ago.

Banking & Finance

🔒How the former owners of the Bull Mansion bought it for $487K, sold it for $1.2M, and made no money

After paying all their back taxes and bills and calculating the cost and time spent running a restaurant and events space in the 144-year-old Bull Mansion for nearly three years, the partners simply broke even.

March 16, 2020Edition

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