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WORCESTER - Michael P. Daly said he believes culture is probably the most important aspect of the long-term viability and profitability of any company. Mr. Daly, CEO of Berkshire Hills Bancorp Inc., the Pittsfield-based bank that last year bought the parent company of...

WORCESTER - When its potential is fully realized, Bruce Fenton says, blockchain technology will be considered as revolutionary an invention as the internet and the printing press. “A lot of people don’t think about things like what is money, and how does the economy...

WORCESTER - Fidelity Personal Investing President Kathleen A. Murphy gave a financial investment forecast in which millennials make up nearly half of the workforce, baby boomers are retiring at 10,000 a day and women, as a whole, are going to see the biggest shifts...

WORCESTER - How does a business grow to $17 billion in annual revenue and the top of the Fortune 500 list with little public notice? According to Thomas P. Joyce Jr., president and CEO of Danaher Corp., it's the shared purpose of the company's employees summed up in...

WORCESTER - Harpoon Brewery CEO and co-founder Dan Kenary told the Worcester Economic Club Wednesday evening that business leaders should work to make capitalism a team sport by changing the system in places that would better spread wealth, stamp out greed and improve...

The Worcester Economic Club, which recently embarked on its 114th season, is one of the oldest such clubs in the country. And it's completely virtual — there's no building, no office. The club exists solely in the form of dues, which until this year have been $200...

WORCESTER – Investment strategist Jim Paulsen believes the country’s eight-year, slow economic recovery will continue but its character will change. He spoke about the recovery and other matters during a Worcester Economic Club meeting held Wednesday night at the...

WORCESTER — It’s going to be a difficult year for investors, or as financial journalist Ron Insana calls it, “the year of living dangerously.” Mr. Insana, senior analyst and commentator for CNBC and MSNBC, and host of a nationally syndicated radio show, spoke at the...