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Women and MBA Degrees, Part II

October 26, 2009 at 12:48 pm

This blog post is a continuation of my look at women and MBA degrees. Part I looked at women who are currently in graduate school pursuing an MBA degree. You can read the previous post here. Did you know that women account for only about a third of graduate business students in the United States? [...]

Women and MBA Degrees

October 8, 2009 at 2:43 pm

As a woman with an MBA degree and someone who wants to see more women in the C-suite, I read with interest an article entitled Defining Workplace Dreams for Women MBAs in the September 28, 2009 issue of Forbes magazine. The article referenced a study by Universum, a research firm focused on employer branding. Universum [...]

Today, Stability Trumps Other Forms of Recognition for IT Staff

August 19, 2009 at 4:46 pm

A couple of recent studies have looked at what companies can do to retain key information technology staff when there is no budget for raises. Slightly more than one-third of the technology professionals polled by Dice.com said that they want their company to give them a guarantee of job security. Who wouldn’t want that given [...]

Reinvent Yourself

June 15, 2009 at 5:29 am

Last week I met with a mid-career female who is in a job search. She asked me what I thought of the concept of ‘reinventing yourself.’ Specifically, she wanted to discuss the pros and cons of reinvention. I had never been asked this question before so it took me a few moments to formulate an [...]

On Dreams and Goals

January 19, 2009 at 1:02 pm

Today commemorates the birthday of Martin Luther King, the civil rights leader. If he had lived, he would have been celebrating 80 years on this earth. I took a few minutes this morning to listen and watch—again—Dr. King’s most famous speech, I Have A Dream. It never fails to inspire me. If it has been [...]

The Sandwich Generation

November 2, 2008 at 1:29 pm

I haven’t written a post in a while because I’ve been taking care of my elderly and ailing parents, who live about a thousand miles from me. Saying that this is a difficult time for me is putting it mildly. On the other hand, the situation would be much worse if I still had children [...]

Encourage Wellness to Reduce Health Care Costs

July 25, 2008 at 3:10 pm

I rarely watch news programs on TV, so it was serendipitous that I had CNN on this morning as I was eating breakfast. CNN ran a great story with Dr. Sanjay Gupta about a manufacturing plant in Lincoln, Nebraska that is taking a wellness approach to reducing employee health care costs. I am a big [...]

Best Small and Medium Companies to Work For in America

July 16, 2008 at 6:33 am

The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) recently announced its list of the 50 best small and medium companies to work for in America. SHRM defined a small company as having between 50 and 250 employees and a medium company as having between 251 to 999 employees. Here are some statistics about the top companies [...]

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What's Wrong with Touchy-Feely?

March 19, 2008 at 3:14 pm

When I was working as a manager in corporate America, I was discouraged from being too ‘touch-feely’ in my dealings with employees, customers, and management. I was instructed by my management to be ‘all business’ at work, stick to the facts, and use critical thinking skills to make decisions. I never felt quite right about [...]

Good Places To Work

March 13, 2008 at 2:26 pm

Does it pay to be one of the companies featured in Fortune magazine’s annual list of the 100 Best Companies To Work For in America? According to Alex Edmans, finance professor at the University of Pennsylvania, the answer is a definite “YES.” Professor Edmans found that the stock returns of companies cited as good places [...]

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