If you said Carol Sheehan, owner of Manchester's Red Arrow Diner, was a "daddy's girl," you'd be right -- and also very wrong.In 1987, when she was in her early 20s, Sheehan embarked on a journey with her father George…

Liz Barbour, chef and owner of The Creative Feast in Hollis, travels all over the state giving cooking demonstrations and classes in people’s homes and elsewhere, teaching them how to make scrumptious, healthy meals. Now she’s taking the same concept…

A team from Merrimack County Savings Bank recently got a chance to sample two new ice cream flavors at Granite State Candy Shoppe in Concord. It was their reward for winning a recent Friends Program auction at which they won…

Since taking leadership of Waltham, Mass.-based Constant Contact in 1999, Gail Goodman has grown the e-mail and event marketing firm’s customer base to more than 350,000 worldwide. In an interview with NHBR, Goodman, who has an MBA from the Amos…

Shown strutting their stuff on the red carpet at the recent 37th annual Daytime Emmy Awards in Las Vegas are Val Wilson and Mike Liston, center, between presenters the Blue Man Group, at left, and Montel Williams and his guest.…

A ceremony was held last month to present the city of Concord with the Health Innovator Award, a partnership of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and NHBR that recognizes innovative and sustained efforts in bringing wellness programs to the workplace. On…

The timing could have been better. In the fall of 2008, after the financial crisis dam had burst, the directors and management of RiverWoods, the nonprofit retirement community in Exeter, had a difficult decision to make – go forward or…

NHBR recently held a roundtable discussion in conjunction with AARP New Hampshire to focus on caregiving — the need for caring for elderly parents by employees who must juggle multiple demands on their time and energy. Participants discussed the issue…

George Bald spent nearly half a day getting to this meeting — up about 4 a.m., then out the door of his Somersworth home of 32 years and then the 3-1/2-hour drive north to Colebrook. He arrived early enough in…

For 25 years, Palmer Jones has been at the helm of the New Hampshire Medical Society, a physician organization founded by Isaiah Bartlett in 1791 to promote the art and science of medicine that also has kept a close eye…

Maria Bartiromo is the anchor of CNBC’s "Closing Bell with Maria Bartiromo" as well as host of "Wall Street Journal Report with Maria Bartiromo," seen on over 200 cable systems.In her new book, "The 10 Laws of Enduring Success," (with…

Dr. James Squires, the 73-year-old president of the $79 million Concord-based Endowment for Health, is a former state senator and a general vascular surgeon who once headed the Matthew Thornton Health Plan (which is now part of Anthem Blue Cross…

Nancy Puglisi, center, the University System of New Hampshire’s director of organizational wellness, recently accepted the Health Innovator Award from Beth Roberts, right, vice president of Northern New England for Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, and Sharron McCarthy, publisher of NHBR.…

Rock Roberge, left, and his wife Kristen Roberge spent the ninth annual Comcast Cares Day at Families In Transition in Manchester where employees landscaped and painted four floors of the complex as part of the company’s day of community service.…

Three years ago, Teresa Rosenberger, a savvy State House lobbyist with the law firm of Devine Millimet & Branch, guided client FairPoint Communications through the state’s thorny permitting process. Now as FairPoint tries to move out of bankruptcy, the company…