Leadership

R.I. awards up to $1.7M to boost internet access

Leadership 11/30/2021

NEWPORT – Gov. Daniel J. McKee on Tuesday announced up to $1.7 million in internet access grants for Rhode Island households with low and...

Former pro basketball player and current Heartland Coca-Cola CEO and President...

Leadership 11/26/2021

Ulysses “Junior” Bridgeman, one of the world's wealthiest former athletes and the CEO and president of Heartland Coca-Cola, will share insights on navigating the...

ROGER C. BERGENHEIM, far right, president and publisher of Providence Business News, delivers a speech Thursday to multiple business professionals in attendance at the news publication's 35th Anniversary Gala at Aldrich Mansion in Warwick. / PBN PHOTO/MIKE SKORSKI

PBN celebrates 35th anniversary with business community

Leadership 11/19/2021

WARWICK – Providence Business News on Thursday celebrated three and a half decades of providing business journalism to Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts at...

BNI Founder Ivan Misner: Now is the time to develop a...

Leadership 11/12/2021

Networking is all about building relationships. And in the eyes of networking expert Ivan Misner, it is during tough stretches such as the one...

How can you successfully network and build professional relationships in the...

Leadership 10/29/2021

Ivan Misner, founder and chief visionary officer of BNI, will share his insight during the November episode of 21st Century Business Forum webcast. This webcast...

ELIZABETH M. TANNER, middle, director of the R.I. Department of Business Regulation, demonstrates how the lottery for the medical marijuana dispensary licenses will work. Tanner was at the Office of Cannabis Regulation on Friday with Russ Griffiths, left, a DBR policy analyst, and Matthew Santacroce, the state's cannabis chief. PBN PHOTO/CASSIUS SHUMAN

R.I. to hold lottery for five medical marijuana dispensary licenses on...

Leadership 10/22/2021

WARWICK – Two years after state lawmakers approved the expansion of Rhode Island’s medical marijuana dispensaries from three to nine, a lottery will be...

GOV. DANIEL J. MCKEE said he is planning to submit a supplemental budget proposal to the R.I. General Assembly in January aimed at allocating the balance of the American Rescue Plan Act funding. / PBN PHOTO/CASSIUS SHUMAN

McKee planning additional supplemental ARPA budget proposal for January

Leadership 10/19/2021

PROVIDENCE – Gov. Daniel J. McKee said Tuesday that his office intends to file an additional supplemental budget in January with the R.I. General...

Michael Dubin’s secret to success: ‘A relentless curiosity’ and ‘an indefatigable...

Leadership 10/14/2021

It would be a stretch to call Michael Dubin an energy conservationist. However, considering that Dubin started Dollar Shave Club in 2011 and sold...

Helena B. Foulkes announces run for governor

Leadership 10/13/2021

PROVIDENCE - Former CVS Health Corp. executive Helena B. Foulkes, a Democrat, has announced her candidacy in Rhode Island's 2022 gubernatorial election. In a video...