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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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Get Off Your Butt and Do Something…Today

by Guest August 12, 2011

Get Off Your Butt and Do Something

This is a guest post by Danielle Efros. Danielle is entering her senior year at the University of Michigan, concentrating in Communication Studies. Danielle has work experience at Deutsch, Inc., a NYC advertising agency in the Business Development department.   From education and experience,I have learned there is no single definition of the term entrepreneur; however, there can [...]

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Get Your Tech On

by Caroline Huber July 26, 2011

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If you’re an undergrad, then it’s time for you to start thinking about going back to school in the fall and deciding what courses to take this year. As a 2010 graduate who entered the job market in the middle of a recession with a liberal arts degree, I wanted to pass on course and [...]

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Games For Change–and a Festival for Change

by Kat McCue July 15, 2011

Games For Change

As technology continues to expand its role in how we accumulate information and spend our time, a medium like online gaming has the capacity to become increasingly more influential to society. It goes without saying that advances in technology have improved the quality of entertainment that games can provide an audience. But more significantly, these [...]

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Community Learning Through Skillshare

by Guest July 11, 2011

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This is a guest post by Danielle Efros. Danielle is entering her senior year at the University of Michigan concentrating in Communication Studies. Danielle has work experience at Deutsch, Inc., a NYC advertising agency in the Business Development department.   As I approach my senior year of undergraduate studies, the reality of my future is now at hand. [...]

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Women MBAs On the Rise

by Guest July 6, 2011

MBA Graduates

This guest post is by Roxana Zadeh. Roxana was an analyst with Ackman-Ziff Real Estate. She studied at the American University of Paris and received her BA in Business Administration from Boston University in 2010. This year in particular, women have stepped up to the b-school plate as record-breaking numbers of women across the world [...]

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The Boys Are All Right. Let’s Focus On Why Young Women Rule, Not On Why Guys Drool

by Guest March 4, 2011

Knocked Up

This post is by Hillary Reinsberg. Hillary is a writer and senior at the University of Pennsylvania, where she was the editor of the campus blog UnderTheButton.com. Her writing has appeared on Crushable.com, The Huffington Post, and New York Magazine’s Vulture. At middle school dances and bar mitzvah parties I attended back in seventh grade, [...]

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A Mint Life

by Guest January 25, 2011

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This is a guest post by Julia S., who is a second year graduate student at a prominent business school in the Northeast. Prior to school, she worked for four years in finance in New York. I recently created a personal finance account on Mint.com and it may be just the answer to my 2011 [...]

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Making Financial Literacy A Priority in Education

by Brienne Walsh January 9, 2011

Students at Champlain College

I’m finishing up my master’s degree in art history at Columbia, which I funded entirely by myself. During the course of the past two years, I’ve wiped out my savings account, and taken out a number of student loans. As I come closer and closer to my graduation date, I’m beginning to realize the full [...]

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