Two W&I teams split $400K <br>in Research Alliance grants
PROVIDENCE – Two research teams at Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island will receive 2009 Collaborative Research Awards totaling $400,000 from the R.I....
GGP’s Las Vegas loan agreements expire
CHICAGO – General Growth Properties Inc. (NYSE: GGP) has failed to negotiate new financing or a further extension of $900 million in mortgages on...
Hunger for growth has never waned at Gilbane
There’s no shortcut to a top job at Gilbane Inc., even if that’s your grandfather’s portrait hanging in a prominent spot at the company’s...
Family businesses have traits to survive
The stock market has tanked. Retirement funds are even worse. Things look bad, but there is a bright side for family firms. Resiliency, optimism...
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...
Efforts to attract, grow businesses in R.I. fragmented
Frank T. Caprio has been as visible a general treasurer as the state has seen in recent memory, partly because of circumstance –...
Firms turn to WorkShare hoping to avert pink slips
Lincoln manufacturer ChemArt has looked at the usual places to cut costs in an attempt to avoid layoffs as the economy slows:
The family-run company...
ALCO developer facing financial headwinds
Struever Bros. Eccles & Rouse, the Baltimore-based construction company now starting the second phase of its American Locomotive Works project, owes local contractors at...
Obama pledges $275B to stem U.S. foreclosures
President Barack Obama has pledged $275 billion to a program that will cut mortgage payments for as many as 9 million struggling homeowners and...
Products to simplify business
New products, services, Web sites and solutions of all kinds for small business are constantly coming across my desk. Here is a quick list...
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