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Welcome to NHBR's fifth annual section focusing on the 2010 Outstanding Women in Business. Presented with Centrix Bank, the awards celebrate the success and achievements of women across the state's [...]

New Hampshire's health-care facilities are growing at a record pace. From Elliot Hospital's $95 million redevelopment of the former Jac Pac site in Manchester and a brand new Huggins Hospital [...]

Five hospitals have joined together in an effort that they say could revolutionize the delivery of health care in New Hampshire. Granite Healthcare Network--which is made up of Concord Hospital, [...]

How big is the 'skills gap' and what will it take to close it? A national study has been released that explores the state of America's higher education and what [...]

A New Jersey site selection firm is giving southern New Hampshire high marks, particularly when it comes to medical manufacturing companies. Princeton-based The Boyd Company Inc. recently examined key business [...]

Pooling resources through a cooperative to promote and support businesses has become a standard in many industries, from growing cranberries and oranges to selling flooring. Now the New Hampshire Center [...]

Reducing frivolous malpractice lawsuits has long been seen as a way to reduce medical malpractice insurance rates, but separate reports released by a legislative oversight committee present inconclusive, and often [...]

From medication discounts to postings of calorie counts, several key components of the massive Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act, signed into law last March, that take effect in [...]

A newly announced Anthem/Dartmouth-Hitchcock pilot program that could serve as the foundation for a so-called accountable care organization could have a direct impact on other providers, and similar projects, around [...]

In just three years, states like Vermont, Maine and Arizona will have more dentists retiring than graduating from schools to replace them. New Hampshire also has issues over access to [...]

With the announced Aug. 31 closing of the Portsmouth-based Women's Business Center, the organization's several hundred members have been encouraged to continue growing their small businesses with other business resource [...]

What would you think about a device that promises to reduce the appearance of cellulite in a completely non-invasive way, is affordable, has virtually no side effects, relaxes you like [...]

New Hampshire community banks have been insisting for months that they have money to lend--and have been doing so all along, despite the recession and gloomy media reports. Yet the [...]

For over a decade, health-care facilities around the country have been all but begging for nurses, and in New Hampshire--a state with an aging population--the need has been seen as [...]

Four businesses have been selected as finalists for the second annual New Hampshire Start-up Challenge, a business plan competition sponsored by Public Service of New Hampshire in partnership with the [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Touted by the governor and its backers in the Legislature as a more affordable health insurance option for New Hampshire small businesses, HealthFirst was launched some two months [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Fourteen businesspeople in 13 different industries and two Business Excellence Hall of Fame inductees were honored Oct. 7 at the seventh annual NHBR Business Excellence Awards. [...]

While the overwhelming majority--64 percent--of New Hampshire residents are covered by employer-based private insurance, government agencies play a crucial role in the lives of Granite Staters as well as in [...]

The United Way of the Greater Seacoast's recent announcement that it would cross the border and merge with the Massachusetts-based United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley--a move that [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A University of New Hampshire-based effort has come up with a system that paves the way for community development organizations to get access to capital markets the way [...]

As marketing manager for the Manchester Economic Development Organization and board chair of the Manchester Young Professionals Network, Kate Benway has found that getting to know people in the Queen [...]

Kristen Lehouiller creates and sells colorful cloth handbags, dog collars and other accessories. Linda Zarli and her two sisters are looking to market their line of greeting cards. Christine Davis [...]

If you extend credit to your customers or clients, you have just gotten a reprieve on a federal deadline you may not have known you had to meet. While many [...]

What is the difference between an HSA and an HRA? Which expenses are qualified on an FSA? What is the co-pay on a non-generic prescription? Are discounts available for gym [...]

Nearly two years in the making, the Currier Museum of Art in Manchester revealed its new self on March 30, when it reopened to the public. The Currier underwent a [...]

As New Hampshire's hospitality industry gear up for the busy summer season, it faces difficulties in being unable to fill seasonal positions left vacant by foreign workers unable to obtain [...]

Like so many parents, Christine Ingemi of Amherst got tired of constantly telling her four children, ages 5 to 11, to turn down the volume on their iPods. 'It would [...]

The future of New Hampshire's agricultural industry may rely on niche markets instead of supermarkets, according to a recent study. The study, prepared earlier this year by Dr. Laurence Goss [...]

Professional organizers are moving from clearing the closets of homeowners to sorting through the file cabinets and the desks of business owners, with the goal of helping to increase company [...]

While not exactly Mr. Spock's tricorder, a Portsmouth company has combined several existing technologies into a new type of communications process that has been used for everything from assisting refugees [...]

A years-long trade dispute between lumber companies in the United States and Canada seemed to have been settled in September, but the solution itself has created as many questions as [...]

With scientists saying the current strain of the avian flu virus found in various places around the world is most fatal to those aged 15 to 35--just the demographic of [...]

The New Hampshire Chapter of the American Institute of Architects honored six Granite State firms at its 27th Annual Excellence in Architecture Awards Jan. 21 at the New Hampshire Institute [...]

Northeast Delta Dental is the first New Hampshire company to take part in a new nutrition-based wellness program claiming to improve health as well as--or even better than prescription medications. [...]

Promoted as a way of bringing health insurance costs under control, Senate Bill 408--passed earlier this year by the New Hampshire Legislature--allows small businesses to form health insurance purchasing alliances [...]

Over the last several years--and despite the Great Recession and its persistent aftermath--New Hampshire businesses have remained just as persistent in forging ahead. Thirty-three of them were recently singled out [...]

Pay-for-performance may be coming to New Hampshire's health-care industry. Under a five-year pilot program unveiled earlier in July by Gov. John Lynch, health-care providers will be compensated based on their [...]

The local food movement has taken the country--and New Hampshire--by storm, with more close-to-home choices than ever showing up on restaurant menus. But just how local is 'local'? NHBR recently [...]

With the landmark passage earlier this year of sweeping federal health reform legislation, change is on the horizon for how New Hampshire small-business owners purchase and use health insurance for [...]

The Women's Business Center will be celebrating a milestone of 15 years of educating, encouraging and advocating for women in business at a May 19 event at the New England [...]

A newly planned initiative seeks to retrain information technology workers to teach elderly patients to use new telehealth technologies. Telehealth systems link patients to their health-care providers through the Internet [...]

New Hampshire staffing agencies are seeing a rise in the number of requests they've been receiving from businesses--a sign that employers are slowly making their way back toward hiring workers. [...]

Under New Hampshire's current use law, owners of qualifying land receive property tax reductions if they agree to maintain their land in an undeveloped condition, but proposed new assessments of [...]

At a time when many small-business owners are struggling to make ends meet, rising credit and debt transaction fees are making the costs of doing business that much more difficult. [...]

The Walmart store in Hooksett moved across the street in August, reborn as a new 'supercenter,' a building of some 150,000 square feet, leaving the older, smaller 75,000-square-foot building empty. [...]

In this day of networking--online, in-person and otherwise--job-seekers still need one fundamental element when looking for a new position--a resume. Far more than just a laundry list of job duties, [...]

The need for direct-care givers in New Hampshire is being outstripped by the supply--and the situation will only become worse as the population of the state ages. That's the conclusion [...]

Although those working in the private healthcare sector make up one of the largest groups of workers in New Hampshire, studies show that there still may not be enough caregivers [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] While the private health insurance industry in New Hampshire has had its ups and downs, in recent years it has been a stable sector for employment and state [...]

Before she was laid off in January, Leslie Barrett worked for Liberty Mutual for several years as an information technology project manager. Faith Filiault of Jaffrey was laid off from [...]