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  • A green midlife crisis: alternative energy musings

    Diane Landis Hackett’s December FAMILY BUSINESS column    My husband’s midlife crisis did not include fast women or shiny cars. He chose to follow his conscience and go where few have gone before him.    He had 48 solar panels installed on the roof of our home.    Not exactly a sexy decision. Nor, did it save…

  • ‘Tis the season: Is your company ready for the flood of charitable solicitations and requests for donations?

    Corporate philanthropy guest column by Katherine Kish and Susan Caruso Green    What started as a trickle has become a flood.    Your company used to receive requests for contributions from just Toys for Tots, the Little League or the Scouts. Now, those groups are still asking but they are joined by so many more. It’s…

  • ‘Margot at the Wedding’

    Jennifer Jason Leigh and Nicole Kidman are comfortable with this kind of loose comedy that has the feel of a voyeuristic reality show. By Bob Brown    Those who enjoyed the dysfunctional family dynamics of writer-director Noah Baumbach’s highly praised and somewhat autobiographical The Squid and the Whale (2005) will feel quite at home here. You…

  • Szaferman firm marks 30 years

      Szaferman, Lakind, Blumstein, Blader and Lehmann, P.C. is celebrating its 30-year anniversary providing legal services to residents of Mercer County. The law firm traces its roots to 1977, when Barry Szaferman, Arnold Lakind, and Jeffrey Blumstein, three State Deputy Attorneys General from North Jersey decided to open their own practice in Lawrence. Their firm,…

  • HEALTH & MEDICINE

       GPC Biotech AG announced the appointment of Torsten Hombeck to chief financial officer. Mr. Hombeck will assume his duties on January 1. He will replace Mirko Scherer who is resigning from the company to pursue other interests. Mr. Scherer will remain a consultant to GPC Biotech.    Mr. Hombeck joined GPC in 1999 and has…

  • HUMAN RESOURCES

       Bradley J. Golden has joined the Plainsboro-based consulting and training services firm Kepner-Tregoe Inc. as partner and global vice president of the consumer products practice. His primary duties will involve driving practice strategy, pursuing innovation and leading practice members worldwide. He also serves as a member of the firm’s five-person executive leadership team, which…

  • PSEG CEO Ralph Izzo weighs in on countering global warming

    By Lauren Otis, Business Editor    HIGHTSTOWN — It is imperative that local, regional and global efforts be made to reduce greenhouse gases, particularly carbon dioxide, and begin to reverse the global warming trend, despite a host of scientific, economic, societal and political hurdles, said Ralph Izzo, chief executive officer of Public Service Enterprise Group…

  • Training firms make alliance

       Washington Crossing, Pa.-based employee training and development firm The Learning Key, Inc., and Solutions Network, Inc., a business performance coaching firm based in Collegeville, Pa., announced a strategic alliance. The partnership aims to offer a complete employee training and development package created for professionals.

  • Former U.S. commander in Afghanistan to speak at Princeton

    PRINCETON— Lt. Gen. Karl Eikenberry, the former commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan and a current NATO military official, will speak at Princeton University on Thursday, at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 13, in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall. Eikenberry assumed command of U.S. forces in May 2005 and stepped down in January 2007 to assume his…