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The solitude of the year 2020 brought about a number of newfound hobbies for those in the U.S. Some people became home bakers making their own sourdough starters while others became novice brewers ...

Employees are the backbone of every business. Without dedicated, hard-working staff, your business can quickly fall flat. Yet, there is a powerful and cost-effective strategy that often gets ...

Milford-based Waters Corp. announced two new additions to its board of directors, including DAN BRENNAN, executive vice president and CFO at Boston Scientific Corp. in Marlborough. In his role, ...

The Central Massachusetts Business Confidence Index moved back into optimistic territory after a month of pessimism. The index, a product of a collaboration between Associated Industries of ...

While Greater Worcester’s unemployment fluctuates month over month, the region’s rate ticked slightly upward in July. Unemployment in Great Worcester rose 0.1 percentage points from 4.9% in June to ...

As part of a statewide initiative to support students historically underrepresented in higher education, Clinton High School, Fitchburg State University, and Mount Wachusett Community College in ...

Millennial couple Courtney and Tyler Galicia took the plunge earlier this year and opened the doors to their first business: the independent bookstore A Great Notion. The pair have backgrounds in ...

Many business owners struggle to sell their businesses when they decide to pursue other goals in life. One of the main reasons for this struggle is the lack of knowledge about the business selling ...

Framingham-based nonprofit Doug Flutie, Jr. Flutie Foundation for Autism has partnered with Laced Differently, an employee resource group at New York sportswear company Foot Locker Inc., to design and ...

Nov. 20 marked the five-year anniversary of the first recreational cannabis sale in Massachusetts. While the first five years saw more than $5 billion in sales and hundreds of businesses opening, ...

In 2003, Jean Qiu founded Nexcelom Bioscience, a Lawrence-based company developing products to count and analyze cells in scientific research. After growing her company to 150 employees, she sold her ...