2024 Event Listing

546th Meeting Featuring Thomas P. Joyce, Jr.

Hogan Center, College of the Holy Cross 1 College St, Worcester, MA

As President and Chief Executive Officer since September 2014, Tom Joyce leads Danaher’s strategic vision and global portfolio growth. Since then, with the help of the Danaher team, his strategic perspective has strengthened Danaher’s focus as a leading science and technology company through the acquisition of Pall Corporation, a number of other key acquisitions, and the launch of Fortive Corporation, a new, independent, publicly traded company. An equally dedicated people leader, Tom has also spearheaded far-reaching efforts to align the company and culture around a shared purpose, and to build a deeply engaged workforce at all levels.

547th Meeting Featuring Kathleen A. Murphy

Hogan Center, College of the Holy Cross 1 College St, Worcester, MA

Kathleen Murphy is president of Personal Investing, a Fidelity Investments company that provides retail brokerage, mutual funds, managed accounts, annuities and other financial products and services to millions of individual investors. Ms. Murphy is also responsible for Fidelity’s life insurance and annuities business, its workplace savings business for tax-exempt organizations, all of the firm’s brand and advertising programs, its online strategies through Fidelity.com, and Fidelity’s mobile device applications.

The 110th Annual Meeting of the Worcester Economic Club featuring Guest Speaker Charlie Baker, Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Beechwood Hotel 363 Plantation St., Worcester, MA

Please submit your reservation prior to Thursday, June 8th Governor Charlie Baker Governor Charlie Baker was inaugurated as the 72nd Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts on January 8th, 2015, after several decades of service in both state government and the private sector. Over the course of his career, Governor Baker has been a highly […]

549th Meeting Featuring Bruce Fenton

Hogan Center, College of the Holy Cross 1 College St, Worcester, MA

Bruce Fenton is an experienced economic advisor and an active member of the blockchain industry. He is the founder of Atlantic Financial, the former Executive Director and a current board member of the Bitcoin Foundation, a co-founder of the Bitcoin Association, and the organizer of the first Dubai Bitcoin Conference. He is also the host […]

550th Meeting Featuring William Cohan

Hogan Center, College of the Holy Cross 1 College St, Worcester, MA

William D. Cohan, a former senior Wall Street M&A investment banker at Lazard Frères & Co., Merrill Lynch, and JP Morgan Chase, is the New York Times bestselling author of three nonfiction narratives about Wall Street: Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World; House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and […]

551st Meeting Featuring Michael Daly

Hogan Center, College of the Holy Cross 1 College St, Worcester, MA

Mr. Michael P. Daly, has been the CEO at Berkshire Hills Bancorp, Inc. and with its subsidiary Berkshire Bank since October 2002. Mr. Daly also serves as CEO and President of Greater Berkshire Foundation. Prior his appointment, he served as an Executive Vice President of Berkshire Hills Bancorp, Inc. and Berkshire Bank from 2000 to October […]

552nd Meeting Featuring Leslie Berlin

Beechwood Hotel 363 Plantation St., Worcester, MA

Leslie Berlin is Project Historian for the Silicon Valley Archives at Stanford University. She has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and served on the advisory committee to the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. The Washington Post said […]

553rd Meeting Featuring R. Nicholas Burns

Hogan Center, College of the Holy Cross 1 College St, Worcester, MA

R. Nicholas Burns is currently is Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government and a member of the Board of Directors of the school's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. At the Harvard Kennedy School, he is Director of The Future of Diplomacy Project. He is Director of the […]

554th Meeting Featuring Martin T. Meehan

Hogan Center, College of the Holy Cross 1 College St, Worcester, MA

Marty Meehan is the first undergraduate alumnus to lead the five-campus University of Massachusetts system. On July 1, 2015, he became the university’s 27th president after serving in the U.S. House of Representatives and as chancellor of UMass Lowell. Meehan embraced a career in public service early in his life. He served as the deputy […]

555th Meeting Featuring Steven Malanga

Hogan Center, College of the Holy Cross 1 College St, Worcester, MA

Steven Malanga is the George M. Yeager Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and City Journal’s senior editor. He writes about the intersection of urban economies, business communities, and public policy and is the author of several books including The New New Left: How American Politics Works Today (2005) and The Immigration Solution (2007), coauthored with Heather Mac Donald and […]