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Merrill Gagne knew his $10,000 matching investment in a Franklin County gift card promotion last year — making each $25 card worth $50 at participating stores, restaurants, and other businesses […]

Gearing Up It’s called a ‘20 Group.’ It’s a collection of 20 non-competing auto dealers with similar business models who gather several times a year to exchange ideas and share […]

  Driving Change As he talked about artificial intelligence (AI) and how it’s being used by the auto sales industry, Rob Pion chose to first discuss consumers — and the […]

Women in the Workplace   McKinsey & Company and leanin.org recently released the 11th annual Women in the Workplace report, the largest and most comprehensive study on the state of […]

A Change Underway By Jeffrey Liguori   Human behavior is to become less cautious as markets trend higher. That tendency is fraught with risk, especially as the complexion of the […]

Why Wait? By Patricia M. Matty, AIF   For decades, inheritance was a term associated with the end of a life — a final transfer of assets triggered by a […]

Heather Caisse-Roberts

Orchestrating Change Heather Caisse-Roberts never gets tired of seeing people enjoy the symphony. “I think one of the most gratifying things for me has been watching individuals’ perception of the […]

A Defining Shift Is Happening Right Here in Western Mass. By Patricia Grenier, CFP   Something significant is happening in the world of wealth — and it’s not just on […]

Watch to see more from Brian Canina: Clouding the Issue The Forecast Calls for … More Uncertainty It’s called the ‘quits rate.’ As that name suggests, it represents the number […]

Surveying the Landscape Beyond the big-picture context provided by regional business leaders in the lead story on page 4, how do individual business and nonprofit leaders in Western Mass. see […]

Finding a Way Home By Jeffrey Liguori In many ways, the U.S. economy is still dealing with the effects of the global financial crisis of almost two decades ago. It […]

Ty Vinick

Lessons Learned Ty Vinick says his grandfather, the late Jim Vinick, had been “training me my whole life.” That’s not surprising to anyone who knew Jim, the former managing director […]

Super 60 Honorees Impact Region in Many Ways Dozens of area companies will be honored by the Springfield Regional Chamber in its 36th annual Super 60 Awards Program. This year, […]

From left: state Rep. Brian Ashe, Itron Vice President Jim Fisher, Basketball Hall of Fame Vice President of Marketing Paul Dionne, Eversource Vice President of Customer Experience and Energy Strategy Penni Conner, and Eversource Director of Metering and Smart Meter Operations Luis Pizano stand in front of the newly installed smart meter at the Hall of Fame.

Current Events   Eversource and the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame recently commemorated a milestone in Massachusetts’ ongoing energy transition with the ceremonial installation of a smart electric meter. […]

Changing the Narrative Holyoke Mayor Joshua Garcia was named a finalist for the Mayor of the Year Award, presented by the Northeast Renewable Energy Coalition (NREC), in recognition of his […]