Nov. 14, 2022 - Worcester Business Journal

Arts & Entertainment

🔒Worcester 300 trivia contest, part 18: A wire holder

What is the Wirefab product in the photo used to hold?

Opinion

🔒A Thousand Words: The city manager search ends

Agriculture

🔒Q&A: New England Botanic Garden goes electric

On Nov. 3, New England Botanic Garden was honored as the first botanic garden in the nation to be certified a Green Zone by the American Green Zone Alliance, as the Boylston garden is now performing all routine maintenance with electric lawn and garden equipment.

News

🔒Editorial: WPI & the benefits of diversity

The next generation of leaders in Central Mass. higher education is taking shape, and the region appears strongly positioned with great talent.

Opinion

🔒Five reasons to promote diversity in your workforce

A diverse workforce that includes a variety of perspectives, experiences, abilities, cultural backgrounds, and social distinctions can provide the workforce makeup necessary for an impactful sharing of ideas that sparks innovation.

Banking & Finance

🔒Movers & Shakers for Nov. 14, 2022

Dr. SUBHASH PAUDEL has joined Reliant Medical Group’s department of nephrology.

Advice

🔒101: Managing supply chain problems

Here are tips for dealing with supply chain issues, and how to prepare for the next time there are shortages.

Advice

🔒Tips for healthcare-minded entrepreneurs

Most Americans are aware health care is big business. We are all familiar with the hospital networks,...

Advice

🔒7 Things I know about … Planning an event

Everyone wants to host the best possible event, leaving guests in awe and being remembered for all the right reasons.

Advice

🔒A decade of cupcake struggle and success

After year five, I knew the statistics about going out of business dropped dramatically. I never felt like “I made it!” so to say, and although things are easier, I have not lost the fire in my belly to succeed.

Diversity & Inclusion

🔒Improving health care: America spends the most money on health care and yet has subpar outcomes

Major healthcare providers in Massachusetts and across the country have started taking steps to rectify racial discrepancies in healthcare services and outcomes.

Economy

🔒Fighting burnout: Healthcare providers have faced a brutal three years and are leaving their jobs in droves

The troubles, though, date back to 2019, even before the COVID pandemic, when the Association of American Medical Colleges reported hospitals in the country were understaffed by as many as 20,000 doctors.

Diversity & Inclusion

🔒The Worcester Housing Authority’s next chapter: How a housing crisis awoke a sleeping giant

Worcester’s largest landlord is stepping up its fight to increase housing stock for not only the city residents most in need, but for all residents who find themselves stretched thin by the region's rising housing costs.

Education

🔒Powerhouses and the future of energy

These types of facilities are expected to become significantly more prevalent as energy costs remain unpredictable and large organizations seek the stability of generating heat and electricity onsite.

Opinion

🔒My son, in crisis, one year later

Today, when people discuss solutions to fix the systemic problems in behavioral health care, my thoughts drift to those who already sought out help and couldn’t find it: the homeless, the incarcerated, those suffering in silence at home, those who died. I think of my son.

Diversity & Inclusion

WPI selects research administrator as first person of color to permanently serve as president

Worcester Polytechnic Institute has named “Grace” Jinliu Wang as its 17th president, becoming the first person of color to lead WPI and succeeding Laurie Leshin, who left WPI for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in May.

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