Bridget Botelho
Concern for staff yields support for clients
It takes a certain kind of person to work at Tides Family Services Inc.
The employees have not gotten raises in 10 years –...
Cox’ investment in its work force pays dividends
One of the reasons Cox Communications keeps showing up as one of Providence Business News’ Best Places to Work is because the communications company...
A role model who relishes task in and out of work
Tia Bush has been with the same company, Amgen, since graduating from college 17 years ago. Her devotion to the company’s mission has led...
Gorbea a champion for more affordable housing
If Nellie Gorbea has her way, affordable housing won’t be an issue for Rhode Islanders much longer. And she’s doing everything in her power...
‘Doing it all’ is more than a mantra for Baran
Somehow, Tracy C. Baran manages to be a partner at a law firm, serve on numerous community organizations and boards, mentor teenage girls and...
Warwick enrolling city workers in ER Card program
Warwick received a $75,000 grant from the Rhode Island Foundation last November to pilot an electronic personal health-record program that is proving to lower...
Negotiating credit card debt can save business
With banks scrutinizing borrowers more closely and reducing their lending, business owners in Rhode Island and throughout the country have increasingly used high-rate credit...
Window treatments that look good, save energy
Jeff Marhall and his wife, Susan, bought their Budget Blinds franchise about three years ago as a way to work for themselves in interior...
Advantage owner has clear view of success
In spite of the recession, Cranston-based Advantage Glass Co. Inc. owner Michael Del Sesto experienced his best year ever in 2008, thanks in part...
Bankruptcies on the rise in R.I.
Business is booming for Christopher Lefebvre, a lawyer with Claude Lefebvre & Sons. About 80 percent of his 20-year-old practice in Pawtucket focuses...

















