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This year’s winners were chosen from 398 nominations submitted for 221 professionals in 2023 and 2024.

This special edition is a celebration of everything the 40 Under Forty has meant to the Central Massachusetts business community over the last 25 years, with a heavy focus on the incoming Class of 2024.

Restaurant operators in Massachusetts and elsewhere have faced stiff headwinds since 2020, with a near-constant swirl of...

For the third year in a row, TJX Cos. Inc. President and CEO Ernie Herrman was the highest-paid CEO in Central Massachusetts. Herrman earned $22.2 million in total compensation for fiscal 2023, nearly 1,496 times more than the corporation’s median employee compensation of $14,857, according to TJX’s filings with the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission.

In Worcester, a city defined by the flow of immigrants over the centuries, and throughout Central Mass., immigrants start businesses at a higher rate than natural-born residents, according to a 2018 joint report by the Worcester Regional Research Bureau and Worcester Business Journal.

Recognizing individual strengths, outlining shared goals, and establishing clear parameters are all elements of a successful team.

The plan complements Massachusetts’ ongoing decarbonization efforts and provides a roadmap for how we can ensure all needed infrastructure is built in an equitable fashion.

Julia Becker Collins, COO of Vision Advertising, provides some advice on using emerging AI technology to assist with marketing

Hodge takes the role at a time where colleges across the country are facing the prospect of declining enrollment.

Central Massachusetts universities are implementing AI technology into courses and trying to address concerns for faculty and students.