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For more than a century, Goodwin-Bradley has taken the road less traveled, says President Robert Goodwin, the third generation of  the family-owned business to be in charge of the Providence manufacturer. And it has  yielded positive results. / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

People – the greatest challenge and reward

Capital Goods 05/11/2018

Robert Goodwin | Goodwin-Bradley Pattern Co. president As the current steward of this 106-year-old family business, I am often asked what has been the most...

A SIGNIFICANT BOOST: Small businesses such as MIKEL, headed by President Kelly Mendell, right (with Dave Lambert, engineer and program manager), who was named Rhode Island’s Small Business Person of the Year by the U.S. Small Business Administration, employ more than half of all private-sector workers in the state. / PBN PHOTO/KATE WHITNEY LUCEY

Healthy small businesses mean a healthy R.I. economy

Economic Activity 05/04/2018

We are near the end of National Small Business Week, a celebration of those businesses that form an important, one might say essential, backbone...

Leave UI fund alone, fund Real Jobs RI

Editorials 04/06/2018

Good intentions do not transform bad choices into good ones. Exhibit A now on display is the Raimondo administration’s proposal to take money from...

Professional Women’s Leadership Association, Nexus, Opens RI Chapter

Press Releases 03/01/2018

PROVIDENCE - For the past year, the Women in Leadership Nexus has united powerhouse women committed to launching their leadership journey and co-creating a...

LISTENING: Miellette McFarlane, interim director of Real Jobs Rhode Island, answers a question at the PBN Workforce Development Summit. From left: Lisa Abbott, Lifespan; Damian Ewens, Opportunity@Work; McFarlane; Tim Hebert, Carousel Industries of North America and Trilix; Matthew Reeber, Pannone, Lopes, Devereaux & O’Gara; and Douglas H. Sherman, New England Institute of Technology. / PBN PHOTO/PAMELA BHATIA

Summit: Growing talent pool collaborative effort

Education 02/23/2018

“No matter where you are – California, Dallas, Chicago – finding talent is one of the biggest challenges” to successfully running a business, said...

Pointing way to better workforce

Editorials 02/23/2018

PBN’s inaugural Workforce Development Summit delivered a strong message: private industry, educators and government must communicate in a much more consistent and robust way...

LAGGING THE HIGH ACHIEVERS: Rhode Island is not among the top 10 states for the portion of millennials, age 25-34 who have a college degree, according to the Brookings Institution, although at No. 14, the state ranked better than the Providence metro area, which placed at No. 49 among the top 100 metros in the nation.

What is the most important takeaway from the Brookings report that...

Education 02/18/2018

The Raimondo administration has made a point of trying to upgrade the educational attainment of the state’s college-age students, the better to take part...

THE PANEL at the inaugural PBN Workforce Development Summit. From left to right, Mark S. Murphy, Lisa Abbott, Damian Ewens, Miellette McFarlane, Tim Hebert, Matthew Reeber and Douglas Sherman. / PBN PHOTO/ PAMELA BHATIA

Inaugural PBN Workforce Development Summit plots talent production

Economic Activity 02/14/2018

WARWICK – Discussion at the first-ever Providence Business News Workforce Development Summit held Feb. 14 saw roughly 200 attendees listen to and share ideas...