March 5, 2018Edition

Welcoming business consultants can bring lots of positives to save companies time and money. Communication about a...

We've all heard of the glass ceiling, an invisible barrier hindering women from rising within the ranks of corporate America.

WBJ has detailed the gender disparity in Central Mass. business leadership through The Boardroom Gap series. This issue's final part shows how the disparity can be decreased.

The brain is an amazing thing. It fills in blanks for things we can't see, hear, or sometimes even understand.

The accomplishments of this year's five Business Leaders of the Year and three WBJ Hall of Fame inductees are awe-inspiring and humbling.

Last year's withdrawal of an $800,000 annual subsidy to Lancaster's Atlantic Union College from one of its major funding sources appears to have been the death knell for the struggling Seventh-day Adventist School. While the closure is stunning in many ways, it's hardly a surprise.

The Worcester Business Journal examined of the gender makeup of the 1,527 senior executives and board members at 75 prominent Central Massachusetts business organizations.

Atlantic Union College, a small Christian school in Lancaster struggling with finances and a lack of accreditation, will effectively close after the spring semester.

Business leadership is moving toward gender equality through legislation, advocacy, investors pushing for the value of diversity, and pressure stemming from the #MeToo movement.

The rise in forensic cases has grown David McLaren's accounting practice to where he is completing an addition to double the company's office space.

The benefits of being hands-free can be industry specific – but voice control is the key.

Central Massachusetts institutions with greater gender diversity say they've seen the value of equality and have wanted to match their leadership to the rest of their organization.

We live in stressful times, in all areas of life. It's unavoidable, yet much of it is manageable when we decide to take action and begin to control what is controllable.