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■ Nonprofit Notebook: PG. 18
■ Opinion & Commentary: PG. 20
FOCUS: EMPLOYEE
BENEFITS
Cost Controls
Find out various methods Connecticut employers
are using to slow the increasing costs of health
care. PG.8
Equal Housing
Opportunity
Find out how Lynne Gillette's roots as an ardent
civil rights and women's rights activist led her to
open her own residential real estate brokerage
business. PG. 3
Fuel-cell makers
strike out on
major CT deals
By Matt Pilon
mpilon@HartfordBusiness.com
C
onnecticut over the years
has nurtured its fuel-cell
industry perhaps more
than any other state, offering poli-
cies and financial perks that have
made the miniature power plants
more economical to manufacture
and purchase.
But two major state
clean-energy procurements, which
failed to select fuel-cell projects,
have revealed the potential limits
of that support and dealt a setback
to the industry.
CT businesses test reverse
mentoring to narrow digital
divide between Millennials,
older workers/execs
By John Stearns
jstearns@HartfordBusiness.com
R
everse mentoring is helping some Con-
necticut companies do forward think-
ing when it comes to understanding the
largely digital lives led by younger staff and
customers and how that affects firms' busi-
nesses inside and outside office walls.
Reverse mentoring inverts the stereotypi-
cal vision of an experienced, older worker
schooling a younger colleague. While that
John Preysner Jr., 61, vice president and corporate
attorney, at Henkel Corp., and Rebecca Coons, 27,
a regulatory affairs specialist in the company,
were mentee and mentor, respectively, in Henkel's
reverse-mentoring program earlier this year,
though not paired together.
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Doosan Fuel Cell execs Sathya Motupally (left) and David Giordano say they are disappoint-
ed none of the company's energy projects were selected in two state energy procurements.
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