Improving Performance
I try to learn what I can from great leaders, and we lost a giant of a leader on April 2. OK, I admit it — I’m Catholic, and I even practice my religion. Even so, John Paul II was…
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Brass Tacks
Just as financial ratios can help a business owner evaluate his or her firm’s status with respect to its liquidity, diagnostic ratios can assist in analyzing how a firm manages its debt. (Trade debt pertains to the credit extended by…
Strategies for dealing successfully with a tax audit
Imagine if today’s mail brought a letter from the IRS advising you that you or your small business are being audited. What would you do? Please bear in mind that a notice to appear before an IRS examiner is not…
Reversing decline, venture capital funding rebounds
Nationally, venture capital fund-raising increased sharply last year, reversing a three-year downturn — and there continue to be significant funding opportunities for late-stage as well as early- and seed-stage companies in 2005. Dividing investments regionally, New England remains a strong…
Nashua Pride on deck for eighth season in Gate City
You may not have noticed, but the ballpark they play in isn’t the only thing that’s “historic” about the Nashua Pride. Time flies when you’re playing ball, and the Pride, Nashua’s entry in the Atlantic Professional Baseball League, is about…
Nashua hospital honored for its ‘magnetism’
The Magnet Recognition nursing award — a national seal of approval designating nursing excellence - has been awarded to St. Joseph Hospital by the American Nurses Credentialing Center, a part of the American Nurses Association. The Nashua hospital is the…
Teradyne puts another Nashua building on the market
Teradyne Inc., parent company of Nashua-based Teradyne Connection Systems, is putting its Nashua building up for sale, along with another in North Reading, Mass. The factory at 24 Simon St. in Nashua had manufactured connection systems and backplanes, but it…
Top Shelf
New Hampshire is home to several world-class resorts, and they are as gracious as they are beautiful — at least the parts that mere mortals see. But what about those of us who are on higher shelves? When (if) Bill…
The Last Word
“You can observe a lot just by watching,” Yogi Berra supposedly said. Some of us observed with keen interest the entertainers performing at the recent annual awards dinner of the Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce. It was the 50th anniversary…
N.H. sees slowdown in jobs linked to exports
The combination of a lower dollar and the level of foreign buyers’ income resulted in a decrease in overseas sales from New Hampshire’s exporting companies in February. Exports of goods made in the Granite State edged slightly down by 1.2…
