New Book Examines Today’s American Internship
DERWOOD, Md., June 9, 2011 — Today’s internships are creating and evolving the next generation of our workforce — and generating controversy, urban myths, and false prophets. In her newest book, Lies, Damned Lies & Internships: The Truth About Getting from Classroom to Cubicl…
GREENSBORO, N.C., May 3, 2011 — “With all of the talk about regulating the financial services industry, one must ask the question whether or not certain financial shenanigans would be eliminated if there were more women serving on corporate boards and on corporate finance committees,…
LOS ANGELES, March 10, 2011 — It’s more important than ever to plan time away to rejuvenate. As the travel industry rebounds and travel agents return to importance, a new event has been registered – “National Plan a Vacation Week.” To occur annually the third week in Marc…
Peach New Media Offers SCORM for Associations
ATLANTA, March 3, 2011 — Peach New Media announces a breakthrough for professional and trade associations looking to offer SCORM conformant courses to their members. The online learning company, with offices in Atlanta and Boston, announced that through a partnership with LearnSomething, as…
New Anti-Diet Book for Women Promotes Using Corporate Strategies to Succeed
BURLINGAME, Calif., Feb. 28, 2011 — Rosemary Hershey, author of Diet-Bailout, pierces the fallacy of diet programs that target food as the culprit to promote their diet, their pills, their treatments, as the magic bullet.
Nonsense, says Hershey, who knows from experience that it’s not ab…
HOUSTON, Jan. 12, 2011 — The Great Recession might be a dark cloud that actually has a silver lining for women who want to be their own bosses.
“There has never been a better time to start a new business,” said Karen Terry, a women’s business coach and mentor based in Houston. ̶…
Building a Well One Bottle at a Time
NEW YORK, Sept. 15, 2010 — Do we really need another recyclable water bottle? If the answer comes in a contemporary, stainless steel water bottle made by Isabella Water then the answer is yes. Isabella Water is doing more than just providing you with an eco-friendly alternative to filling up landfi…
New Survey of Corporate Hiring: Black and Latino Executives Falling Further Behind
NEW YORK, March 25, 2010 — Wesley, Brown & Bartle (WB&B), a four-decade-old national executive search firm with the highest record of management diversity in corporate America, announces survey results reflecting a dismal re-employment picture for minority executives.
“Des…
iUniverse Presents ‘Pink Slips and Parting Gifts’
An entertaining peek behind the curtain of corporate America mergers
RALEIGH, N.C., Oct. 19, 2009 — With an estimated one in five corporate workers experiencing a merger or acquisition in their working life, the aftermath of receiving that dreaded pink slip is something Americans know all too we…
Parents Get Creative with Student Discounts
SEATTLE, Aug. 31, 2009 — Kristi Beem was in a bind. After her husband lost his job this summer, the mother from Glen Rose, Texas, worried about the expense of sending her three kids back to school. “Our oldest daughter starts college in New York this fall,” she said. “And we promis…
