Richard Asinof
Summit: Cancer patients needed in clinical trials
The 2010 Rhode Island Cancer Summit, sponsored by The Partnership to Reduce Cancer in Rhode Island, put its focus mostly on science, though issues...
EDC business loans run the gamut
Money from R.I. Economic Development Corporation’s Small Business Loan Fund is targeted at businesses which have been denied commercial credit – a business only...
Larger fund to absorb EDC micro-lending program
The Small Business Loan Fund, begun in 1986 with money from the federal Economic Development Administration, a division of the U.S. Commerce Department, makes...
Tracking job growth challenges EDC
Editor’s note: This is the first of a two-part series on the performance of the EDC’s Small Business Loan Fund and a related micro-loan...
Cleaning up in aftermath of floods
The severe flooding in late March and early April was a difficult time for many Rhode Island businesses, but for the family-owned disaster restoration...
Staffing firms: Hiring on the rise
If the Rhode Island agencies that provide temporary workers were to hang a sign in their office windows, taking the temperature of the current...
Hasbro grows brand by focusing on multimedia family fun
Hasbro CEO and President Brian Goldner is credited with leading Hasbro Inc.’s turnaround during the last decade by creating a new strategic focus: re-imagine,...
Expertise among R.I.’s most promising exports
If you want to know how much scrap, electronics and other products Rhode Island exports, the U.S. Commerce Department can tell you. This export...
R.I. SBA names 2010 award winners
PROVIDENCE – Jack Goodison, CEO and chief financial officer of J. Goodison Company Inc., has been named Small Business Person of the Year by...
Demand for foreign help wanes
Rhode Island employers in the hospitality industry who in the past have had no choice but to rely on the H-2B nonimmigrant U.S. visa...
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