Johnson named Pawtucket Foundation’s 2025 Person of the Year
BRETT M. JOHNSON, chairman of Fortuitus Partners and co-founder of Rhode Island FC, was recently named the 2025 Person of the Year by the...
Hiring the right people is key to navigating the turmoil
Drivers of our current and projected economies include the spate of business closings, layoffs and bankruptcies that challenge us every day. The grave uncertainties...
Turbulent research landscape imperils U.S. brain gain
Despite representing only 4% of the world’s population, the U.S. accounts for over half of science Nobel Prizes awarded since 2000, hosts seven of...
Shifting the social determinants of business
The story plays out every day. An industrious woman – an “entrepreneur by necessity”– starts a business because she has no other income potential....
Business Bestsellers
Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson. The authors explain that our problems today are not the results of yesteryear’s villains. Rather, one generation’s...
Flexibility can pay off
A college professor was once approached after a lecture by a young man demanding an explanation for an apparent contradiction between something he had...
Five Questions With: Dottie Nigrelli
Dottie Nigrelli is an associate broker for Residential Properties Ltd., which she joined earlier this year along with 12 other Compass Watch Hill agents....
Five Questions With: Kathleen Breen Combes
Kathleen Breen Combes is the artistic executive director of Ballet Rhode Island. When the organization, formally known as Festival Ballet Providence, rebranded in 2023,...
Do you agree with the Providence City Council mailing every household...
The mailers started arriving in early July at households across Providence, each card with the headline in English and Spanish, "Citizen or not: You...
Five Questions With: Michael Solomon
Michael Solomon has joined Navigant Credit Union as first vice president, leading its commercial lending division. With more than 30 years in New England banking,...
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