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For the 2024 Outstanding Women in Business awards, WBJ received 51 nominations for 41 nominees.

The Outstanding Women in Business awards have long been one of WBJ’s hardest honors to win.

Bell-Peña and the nonprofit she founded are now hard at work again addressing the original core mission: Supporting those exploited by the sex trade.

Kim Golinski made the transition from craft beer to professional sports on Aug. 1, when she officially became the team president of the Worcester Railers.

As a news organization, WBJ can’t dictate the gender of the people making news every day. However, a point of pride during my nine-year tenure as editor has been WBJ’s coverage of all aspects of the Central Massachusetts business community, particularly highlighting the underrepresented and undercovered ones.

Honeycutt is dedicating his new endeavor to helping advance health communication using AI technology with his company MetaScriptMD

Alexander Ovtchinnikov, senior vice president and chief technology officer at IPG Photonics Corp., is the second executive from the Marlborough-based company to retire within the past three months as IPG's new CEO attempts to combat the effects of falling stock prices and global stock issues. 

The life sciences industry is in the middle of a rough patch. Following a frenzied expansion in the wake of the COVID pandemic, the industry centered around the Cambridge-Boston global hub is experiencing a right sizing, leading to layoffs and vacant lab spaces, particularly in Eastern Massachusetts.

Many organizations aim to recruit and retain individuals from historically underrepresented backgrounds. However, simply increasing the numbers of underrepresented and marginalized individuals within a workforce does not guarantee success.

To me there is nothing more beautiful than a room of extremely diverse characters having a great time together and learning from each other.