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Shannon McBeen is a California native who recently got her Master’s degree in Information and Library Science from Pratt Institute. A former project manager for a high-end residential construction company, she’s now a freelance writer, editorial assistant, and waiter.

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Wonder Women – Profiles in Power: Cynthia Hess

by Shannon McBeen October 7, 2011

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Cynthia Clarfield Hess is a partner in the Corporate Group of Fenwick & West LLP, a law firm specializing in high technology matters, where she represents a variety of high technology companies, ranging from privately held start-ups to publicly traded companies. When Cynthia Clarfield Hess first started practicing law in New York in the late [...]

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The Mom-trepreneur: Advice from Rebecca Levey

by Shannon McBeen September 19, 2011

Rebecca Levey

Rebecca Levey is a writer, entrepreneur, and co-founder of the recently launched KidzVuz.com, as well as founder and co-host of The Blogging Angels Podcast, a weekly radio show about women in social media and the blogosphere. Even before she had kids, Rebecca Levey was an experienced writer. She’d worked in a variety of genres drafting [...]

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Creating a Successful Hybrid: The Mom-trepreneur

by Shannon McBeen September 9, 2011

business woman at home

One of the benefits of living in a first-world society and all its wonders of technology is the blessing (or curse, depending on your time management skills) of being able to do almost any kind of work from home. For some of us it means the constant struggle of resisting Netflix instant, while others are [...]

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The Triple Bottom Line

by Shannon McBeen August 19, 2011

The Triple Bottom Line

In October of 2010, Lewis Perkins, Ben Affleck look-a-like and President of New House LLC, drafted this post for Fast Company regarding the rise of women in corporate leadership and the many political, cultural, and social elements that were both causing and resulting from this shift. Among the causal elements, Perkins identified corporate initiatives (like [...]

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Su Casa es Mi Casa: Collaborative Consumption Comes Home

by Shannon McBeen July 27, 2011

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If necessity is the mother of invention, then recession is the mother of innovation. As we’ve noted previously, limitations of our current economic environment combined with technological advances have created a global movement focused on sharing, trading, and fixing. This collaborative consumption comes in many forms, but one of the most well known–and timely, given [...]

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Wonder Women: Profiles in Power

by Shannon McBeen July 8, 2011

Wonder Women

If you’ve ever opened a Forbes magazine or seen images of the New York Stock Exchange floor, or even glanced briefly at our American congress, you’ll have noticed that there’s a glaring shortage of women in the higher posts offered by the various important sectors of our economy. This disparity is no breaking news, and [...]

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Calculating the Odds: Yahoo!’s Real Estate Tools

by Shannon McBeen June 27, 2011

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Back in 2004, California (as well as the entire nation) was in the midst of a raging housing boom. For Sale signs went up and came down sometimes in the same day, and everywhere everyone was trading in their rental agreement for mortgage paperwork. It was hardly a question: if you could buy, you did [...]

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It Takes a Teeming Metropolis

by Shannon McBeen May 16, 2011

It Takes a Teeming Metropolis

Five years ago, when my sister and I first moved to New York, we stayed with my very generous cousin, her ever-patient husband, and their one-year old son in a South Park Slope one bedroom walk-up. For two months, we shared three small rooms and one tiny bathroom and took turns taking out the trash, [...]

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The New Consumerism

by Shannon McBeen May 9, 2011

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Living in this modern world often demands more than the basics we were taught in high school economics. Rampant technological advances are transforming our traditional capitalism into an almost unrecognizable system, and other upheavals of the status quo–a national recession, international emerging markets, and globalization as a result of the web–have given birth to a [...]

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The New Power Suit

by Shannon McBeen April 27, 2011

New Power Suit

Shannon McBeen is a California transplant who recently got her Master’s degree in Information and Library Science from Pratt Institute. She’s a freelance writer, editorial assistant, and waiter. If you live in New York City and have ever spent time in lower Manhattan’s financial district around lunchtime, you may, as I have, found yourself feeling [...]

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