Business & Economic Development
Business & Economic Development
Taking a Leadership Role When Lora Wondolowski became founding executive director of Leadership Pioneer Valley (LPV), it certainly wasn’t with the expectation that she would one day be hard […]
Hidden Costs A recent report from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) and the TIME’S UP Foundation shows that workplace sexual harassment has large financial costs and economic consequences. […]
Serving Those Who Serve The USO (United Service Organizations) turned 80 this year. It celebrated, in essence, by enthusiastically carrying out the same mission it has had since 1941 — […]
Labor Pains The unemployment rate for veterans who served on active duty in the U.S. Armed Forces at any time since September 2001 — a group referred to as […]
Dollars and Sense There are many myths concerning money, with many of them transcending generations of people in the same family. The truth is that many of these myths […]
How the Pandemic is Reshaping This Decision for Americans By Jean M. Deliso, CFP After a year of Zoom calls, a deadly virus, inflated real-estate values, and a crazy […]
And When It Comes to Investing, That’s Not a Good Thing By Jeff Liguori Malcolm Gladwell, prolific non-fiction writer, journalist, and podcaster, has written extensively about mastering a subject. […]
A Different World Auto dealers are used to adjusting to changing economic conditions and fluctuations with the laws of supply and demand. But in recent months, they’ve had to contend […]
New World Order When asked how many new cars he had on his lot, Rob Pion, general manager of Bob Pion Buick GMC in Chicopee, quickly said “eight.” And […]
Getting Up Off the Floor For those in the office furniture and design sector, the past 18 months have been a long and extremely challenging stretch. Looking ahead, while the […]
Best of Both Worlds Looking over the past year and a half, Lisa Verville isn’t surprised the O’Connell Companies operated smoothly with the vast majority of its team working from […]
Crafting Connections When Hannah Rechtschaffen set about to open an art gallery in Amherst’s Mill District, she didn’t envision a static space; instead, her goal was to develop a vibrant, […]
Shoebox Greetings As she looked back on 30 years in business — and a very different kind of business, to be sure — Suzanne Murphy retold a story she’s recounted […]
Moving Pictures Hazen Paper, a third-generation family business that’s approaching a century in operation in the Holyoke mill district, has never stood still, expanding its operation over the years […]
Breaking Down the Silos For Pixel Health, 2020 was a year of growth — double-digit sales growth, in fact, and a 30% staff increase despite the impact of COVID-19 […]
