Forging bonds to deliver better care, cost savings
Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island, the state’s largest health insurer with more than 600,000 members, signed a two-year, shared-savings contract in...
Building community through its children
Innovation, for Providence After School Alliance, comprises the core of the organization and extends right through all aspects of the group. Its AfterZone Program,...
Dad helps firm make environmental inroads
Howard Schachter is a water guy.
For 50 years, he worked as a metallurgical engineer concentrating on recycling wastewater and solid waste, then...
Social networking big factor in firm’s success
Gurnet Consulting, a project- management-solutions firm that enables clients to deliver on successful IT initiatives, does not have a sales or marketing arm. Instead,...
Location no barrier to getting the best hires
The secret behind the rapid growth of Drupal Connect, a Web-development firm headquartered in Newport, is “the willingness to hire the best talent, the...
Relationships spur growth after industry setbacks
Robert E. Nickerson, president of commercial real estate firm Stone Tower Properties, appreciates the designation of one of the fastest-growing companies in Rhode Island,...
Matching people with positions, done right
The staff-recruitment agency – based in Providence but serving all of southern New England – is one of the fastest-growing companies in Rhode Island....
Market niche, talent driving firms growth
If you were to ask Jeffrey P. Spratt of Peregrine Property Management to describe his ideal business climate, today’s economy would not be on...
Flexibility wins the day for design-build firm
Partners Peter Crump and Matt Dempsey have watched their company, Site Specific LLC, grow by leaps and bounds since they first launched the venture...
Reputation, planning help this IT firm soar
Focused on information technology staffing, both permanent and contract, Bridge Technical Solutions is among the Top 15 Fastest-Growing Companies in the state. James Wright...