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It is easy to scoff at the $2.3 million in total compensation made by Eric Dickson, president and CEO of UMass Memorial Health Care in Worcester, and say he is overpaid.

The good news is Worcester is in the midst of an exciting renaissance with a robust economy.

Containing columns with what responsibilities fall to who and how they all come together shows how all contributors pitch in at each stage.

Soft skills are competencies uniquely human and fast becoming more valuable in today’s technology-driven world.

Personalized services is something a lot of people still look in the insurance industry.

With change there will always be a resistance, and in some cases, rebellion. It is important to look at ourselves and see what we can improve on, but it is okay to look at ourselves and stand our ground.

For this year, WBJ readers weighed in more than 17,000 times in a record 54 categories to give you recommendations on topics such as the Best Web Design Firm (Worcester Interactive) and the Best Venue for a Corporate Event (Apex Center of New England).

Faced with declining patient discharge numbers and seeing a chance to pare costs that didn’t directly affect patients, UMass Memorial Health Care leaders in Worcester made a tough financial choice to cut much of its executive ranks.

Worcester county is one of three counties in Massachusetts and eight across New England to be hit by the broadest array of opioids: prescription opioids, heroin, and prescription–synthetic opioids, such as fentanyl.

Nearly one year after the Greendale Mall in Worcester was listed for sale, a Boston real estate development firm paid $7.1 million for the troubled shopping center on Dec. 23.