Blogs

This is a reprint of a guest blog Carol Fishman Cohen wrote for Working Mother.

In the wave of reaction to Amy Chua’s Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, the focus has been primarily on the kids and whether the Chinese parenting methods described could be considered child abuse. What has not been discussed is that Asian-style intensive parenting falls...

This is a reprint of a blog Carol Fishman Cohen wrote on Yahoo Shine.

A typical weekend morning; I'm on Twitter for a bit.  I take a look at one of my favorite people to follow, @johnsonwhitney (Whitney Johnson, President, Rose Park Advisors, and HBR blogger), who always has something insightful to say.  One of her tweets leads me to @AnneDGallaher...

By Carol Fishman Cohen and Vivian Steir Rabin

This is a reprint of a guest blog we wrote for www.thewomensconference.org

With the national unemployment rate still running at 9.6% (and California’s at a depressing 12.8% as of early July), women who have been out of the workforce are simultaneously feeling more...

In the June issue of INC Magazine, Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard is interviewed about a range of topics relating to managing and motivating employees. When asked at the end of the interview:

“If you were starting a company today, what would you do to create the best possible workplace?”

Chouinard gave an incredibly powerful response:

“…..I would search out older women as employees. Ones that have already raised families and are looking for...

Almost two months ago, I received the following e-mail from one of the attendees of our iRelaunch Return to Work Conference:

“I’ve run into what seems to be a couple of good career opportunities with employers of small, growing companies who believe that I could help them grow and develop their businesses. The opportunities are essentially what I’d make of them…both of these entrepreneurs have decided that they could benefit from working...