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Partnership plan urges degree boost
It isn’t a new thought that something must be done within Rhode Island’s higher education system to provide easier, more-affordable access to post-secondary education to create a workforce matched to the state’s available jobs. more

By Rebecca Keister
PBN Staff Writer | 4/15/13

Effort to better ‘connect’ city lands in Copenhagen
Andy Cutler, founder of Cutler & Co., has spent the past two years and plenty of his own money working on an initiative that aims to connect Providence with other smaller cities around the world. Drawn to the similarities between Providence and Copenhagen, he selected the Danish city as the first focus of Smaller Cities Unite!, an initiative designed to link Rhode Island’s capital with other cities that have populations of 1.5 million or less, and that share commonalities such as student engagement, economic development, policy, entrepreneurship and arts and culture. After months of forging virtual connections with residents of Copenhagen and trying to build local support, Cutler recently traveled to the city. He spent 11 days there discussing ways to form lasting connections between the two cities. more

By Lindsay Lorenz
PBN Researcher | 4/15/13

Bryant forging economic, educational ties to China
Ronald K. Machtley, president of Bryant University, raised his glass of baijiu, a Chinese white liquor, and toasted the signing of two new educational partnership agreements with the People’s Republic of China, paraphrasing a Chinese saying popularized by Mao Zedong: “Each new partnership begins with a single step.” more
By Richard Asinof
Contributing Writer | 4/15/13
Corporate conscientiousness
The Providence Business News Executive Poll is a weekly survey of 70 business leaders throughout the state, representing small and large companies in a variety of industries. more
12/31/69
Potato peeling made easy
Former nightclub owner Barry Blair is trying his hand at a new gig, entrepreneur. The one-time owner of Barry’s Nightclub in Warwick is pitching the Prep N’ Pop, the sole product being sold under the Doodads LLC brand that Blair began in 2007. The kitchen utensil peels a potato hands-free and then pops the potato out of its cylinder. He says he has sold tens of thousands of the utensils on QVC, where it retails for $17.25. Prep N’ Pop recently made its retail debut at the East Side Marketplace, which is serving as sort of a test run for larger grocery-store chains. more
4/15/13
Training programs feed R.I. eateries
Just a year ago, Stephanie Hebert was a long-term unemployed woman in her mid-20s without a college education or high school diploma – exactly the population at risk for chronic joblessness and public-assistance dependence. more

By Rebecca Keister
PBN Staff Writer | 4/15/13

Changes come slowly to EDC
Reforming the state agency at the heart of the 38 Studios LLC loan guarantee has been as deliberate, modest and incremental as the video game company’s collapse was sudden and spectacular. more

By Patrick Anderson
PBN Staff Writer | 4/15/13

Innovation Fellows make strides on ambitious plans
To win a competition seeking the greatest possible good for the most people, The Rhode Island Foundation Innovation Fellows Allan Tear and Soren Ryherd had to be ambitious. more

By Patrick Anderson
PBN Staff Writer | 4/15/13

R.I.’s momentum slows in Feb.
The first two months of 2013 haven’t seen the economic growth that late 2012’s accelerated recovery might have suggested, according to University of Rhode Island economist Leonard Lardaro’s Current Conditions Index, released Monday. more
Transparency, not risk, is the issue here
General Treasurer Gina M. Raimondo has taken more media shots for her choice to allocate 22 percent of the state’s pension funds to alternative investments, including hedge funds. more
4/22/13
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