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Venkat Kolluri, CEO of Chitika Inc., has made an art of creating an inviting workplace to employees of his Internet advertising firm in Westborough.

Dr. Eric Dickson never set out to be a hospital administrator, but leadership roles have tended to fall into his lap as he practiced as an emergency room physician over the years, thanks to his take-charge nature.

Susan Mailman is the fourth-generation owner of the 130-year-old Coghlin Electrical Contractors & Coghlin Network Services, but she has not only stepped into a role guiding her company, but also in helping to guide major institutions in the city.

Inside Route 128, incubators for early-stage companies are numerous, but in MetroWest and Greater Worcester, the options are far more limited. But two local nonprofit leaders, Kevin O'Sullivan, president and CEO of Massachusetts Biomedical Initiatives in Worcester, and Barbara Finer, CEO of TechSandBox in Hopkinton, have been pioneers on the incubation frontier and are leading ongoing efforts to increase resources to help local startups thrive.

To call Chip Norton a fresh face to Central Massachusetts is a little bit of a misnomer, since he has owned and/or developed several multi-million real estate projects in the region for years, but he was largely working behind the scenes until late October when his firm purchased two Front Street office towers in Worcester for $33 million.

Power comes in many forms, but from power derives influence; and how people use that influence is ultimately reflective of the power they hold.

A Northborough office building has sold for $900,000 to Children's Dentistry of Northborough.

The Baker administration announced $1.5 million in grants for advanced manufacturing training programs on Thursday at Lynn Vocational Technical Institute, which educates high school students and hosts a program to train out-of-work adults.

The number of foreclosure starts leaped forward in October with a 17.6 percent year-over-year increase, according to a release by The Warren Group.

The Hopkinton Technology Park added tenants and retained current companies with the recent leasing of 93,800 square feet in ten different transactions, according to Greater Boston Commercial Properties.