Carole Symonds, CPA, MST is a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers and the author of The Millionaire Manager. She is leading a session focused on gaining the financial knowledge and tools you need to improve your company's success.
After describing the importance of various ratios, a question was raised from the audience.
 ”Is there a way to benchmark against [...]

Speakers:

Deborah DiSanza (Senior VP, Patient Monitoring Systems, Phillips Electronics)
Marcy Reed (Senior VP, Finance National Grid)
Maura Regan (Senior VP, General Manager, Global Consumer Products, Sesame Street Workshop)

This was a very insightful panel on working internationally.  The women panelists spoke about adjusting to working in other countries and company cultures.  I was encouraged by the women to [...]

Addie Swartz, Creator Beacon Street Girls gave a wonderful talk on her career and the creation of Beacon Street Girls - a 10 book series with 400,000 volumes in print.  Addie connected easily with the audience as she communicated both her drive and passion for her work.  She left the audience with a “Girls Guide [...]

Jackie just gave another interesting response to the second question, where do you find customers? posed at the panel, How it Really Happens: Lessons from Accomplished Entrepreneurs. She first said (echoing Addie's Schwartz's keynote), The opportunity is right in front of you, stop stepping over it! Free cash, come and get it!
 
She pointed out two potential business [...]

 
I'm sitting in “How To Negotiate Workplace Alternatives: Full time, Part time, Flextime” moderated by Danna Greenberg, Assistant Professor of Management at Babson College.
 
A few great takeaways for negotiating and working a flexible schedule whether it is for children, elder care, or quality of life:

Try to make it work internally - push for part-time, flex [...]

The opening keynote with Addie Schwartz, Founder and CEO of B*tween Productions (what an inspirational presentation!), just let out and my laptop is up and running at one of our first panel sessions of the day, How it Really Happens: Lessons from Accomplished Entrepreneurs. A very appropriate topic for Babson! There are three women on the panel, all who have [...]

I'm Allison Lawlor and a marketing manager at Babson College.   I'm going to be blogging from the 9th Annual Women's Leadership Conference and I'm really excited to hear the two opening keynotes as well as be a part of the 18 sessions throughout the day.  Since I oversee the registration, I can tell you that [...]

Panelists:

Jill Cheng, President Cheng & Tsui
Kellie Kreiser, Director, Project Artemis, The Garvin School of Management, Thunderbird University
Olga Pizzaro Stiepovic, Director of Development, The Business School, Universidad del Desarollo, Chile

This was an excellent panel about doing business in several different countries. The panelists had several helpful recommendations for the audience that I [...]

Good morning! I'm Sarah Sykora a marketing director at Babson College and a 2001 MBA graduate. I look forward to sharing tidbits and thoughts with you today live from Babson's Center for Women's Leadership 9th annual conference featuring Carly Fiorna, Former President of HP and Addie Schwartz, Founder and CEO of B*Tween Productions. It's guaranteed [...]

I'm Michelle Park,  an MBA student in the full-time 2 year program at Babson College.  Today I will be blogging from Olin Hall, the site of the 9th Annual Women's Leadership Conference hosted by the Center for Women's Leadership.  I'm looking forward to a day full of phenomenal professional women who will be discussing pertinent topics from wages to best places to work.  [...]