Five days of entrepreneurial activities are planned in New Hampshire as part of Entrepreneurship Week USA. The week -- a nationwide effort to transform today’s youth into tomorrow’s entrepreneurs - will feature events sponsored by schools, organizations and individuals. “Here…
First there was Segway and Smuttynose beer, now it’s Smuttynose and Yankee magazine. Soon we may see beer and Bellows House cookies. Smuttynose Brewery, Yankee Publishing, Segway and Bellows House Bakery have joined forces as New Hampshire Partners in Commerce,…
The deadline is Feb. 28 for submitting business plans for the Amoskeag Business Incubator Business Plan Competition, the winner of which receiving a free one-year lease at the Manchester facility. Sponsored by Southern New Hampshire University, New Hampshire Business Review,…
Currently interim president of the University of New Hampshire, J. Bonnie Newman’s extensive careers in both the private and public sectors have included management positions over administrative and executive operations at the White House during the administrations of Ronald Reagan…
Who was that guy? Watching the State of the Union address on January 23rd, I was struck by the fact that George W. Bush reached out to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic majority and the American people with a…
As domestic demand for goods made by New Hampshire’s companies weakened last year, exports became an important source of maintaining strong overall sales and jobs, thus improving statewide economic development. Abroad, economic conditions in 2006 were favorable in most areas.…
Craig Cassarino has spent decades focused on the sustainability of resources in both New Hampshire and Brazil, so it’s fitting that now, as the Granite State’s commercial consul for Brazil, he serves as a resource for businesses interested in doing…
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit recently issued two decisions of importance to employers in New Hampshire, Maine and Massachusetts. One, Rucker v. Lee Holding Co., has significant implications in determining family and medical leave eligibility. The…
As our dependence on information technology in all sectors of life has grown, the type of information stored in electronic form, whether Word documents, Excel spreadsheets and e-mails — whether on servers, PDAs or even cell phones — has increased…
I attended a recent 2007 economic outlook breakfast yesterday morning at Derryfield Country Club. As one speaker, a banker, said, 2006 wasn’t great but it wasn’t bad either. In fact it was more of the same with the economy just…
