Mercer County officials are moving ahead with plans to reserve a set amount of contracts to be filled by small business run by women, minorities and veterans, which advocates say will help small businesses and create more jobs.

Princeton law firm Locke Lord named Paulette Brown senior partner and chief diversity and inclusion officer Thursday.

Former Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno was named Thursday to the boards of OceanFirst Financial Corp. and OceanFirst Bank.

Gov. Phil Murphy swore in Marlene Caride as the New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance Commissioner on Wednesday.

Caroline Feeney has been named head of the Individual Solutions Group at Prudential Financial, and Salene Hitchcock-Gear was tapped to replace her as president of individual life insurance, the company said.

A bill to prohibit non-disclosure agreements in workplace sexual harassment settlements has been approved by a 34-0 vote in the state Senate.

The future is female at Pine Brook-based Rymax Marketing Services Inc. with the promotion of Eve Kolakowski as to president.

Manasquan Bank in Wall Township has promoted Catherine Franzoni to chief operating officer, a new position.

Global engineering firm AECOM has appointed Kim Vierheilig vice president and managing principal for its New Jersey Buildings and Places practice, a part of the Design and Consulting Services group.

Sally Glick, principal at Sobel & Co. LLC and head of ACG New Jersey, has been honored for meritorious services by the Association for Corporate Growth.

Friends since they were students at Harvard Business School, KJ Miller and Amanda Johnson found themselves lamenting a problem many women of color shared — finding appropriately pigmented cosmetics.

When my friend Gerry Bellotti (vice president of the Independent College Fund of New Jersey) invited me a few years ago to speak to a group of nonprofit leaders on the subject of "purpose with a passion," I agreed before I had even thought about how I would address this interesting topic.  The two key words —...