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Business Record 1-26-18

Deloitte CFO of the Year
Greater Des Moines Partnership’s Kirk Irwin provides decade of steady leadership

Focus: Economic Forecast

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Jan. 29: Women Inspiring Women

Host: University of Northern Iowa
About: Be inspired by hearing from incredible women from our community of Cedar Falls/Waterloo who share their message of resilience, strength, courage and grace. 
Where: Gallagher Bluedorn Center, Cedar Falls…

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SPEAK UP: Public, private sectors must work to support women entrepreneurs

Women who own businesses “may be the country’s greatest untapped economic resource,” writes Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., but they struggle with a shortage of role models, the gender pay gap and uneven access to financing. …

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SPEAK UP: What you can learn from Ellen Pompeo’s big payday

The star of “Grey’s Anatomy” is opening up about her new contract with ABC so other women can learn how important it is to negotiate what they’re worth. Ellen Pompeo just signed a $20 million …

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Business Record 1-19-18

When opportunity knocks
Sue Clark has built a successful career from on-the-job training

Focus: Legislative Issues to Watch 

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Back in business?

The Iowa Legislature is back in session, and business groups are hoping to push through tax reforms — one of the few big-ticket items they didn’t win last session. 

The major organizations representing business also …

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SPEAK UP: How to succeed when you don’t have access to a professional network

Meeting interesting people is just the first step. Over time, you must work to build long-term professional relationships with people you respect and admire because, often, these relationships are crucial to professional advancement.

However, if …

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SPEAK UP: The new midlife crisis

The complaints of well-educated, middle- and upper middle-class women are easy to dismiss as temporary, or not really a crisis. However, nearly 60 percent of Generation Xers describe themselves as stressed out. Their happiness is …

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Meaningfully contribute to the women’s movement, as a man

It’s vital for men to be involved in the women’s movement, writes Dejan Jotanovic, because many of our societal problems often labeled as women’s issues actually stem from learned behaviors associated with masculinity and manhood. Men …

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How Birchbox’s co-founders built a profitable beauty empire

In 2010, Harvard Business School friends and roommates Katia Beauchamp and Haley Barna started Birchbox out of their dorm room. Beauchamp called 2016 the “biggest challenge and transformation to date” but proudly announced that Birchbox…