Women and Business: Perfecting the Perfect Pitch
What better way to start the New Year than with a resolution to improve your business pitch? For that matter, even if you do not have a business to promote, you still need a pitch. You may have to introduce yourself at a social gathering, for example. How do you make yourself interesting? In my research for last month’s column on business networking, I discovered Dartmouth College’s DEN Innovation Center and its Digital Arts,...
Women and Business: Networking to Grow and Prosper
Women who own or manage a business often are looking for ways to connect with others to help move their businesses forward. They may have their business or career up and running, but feel they need a boost from meeting others who can help them build on their initial success. In the Upper Valley, businesswomen have a number of options — some are more structured, with regular meetings and fees; others are informal and free. Here is a...
Women and Business: Women-Powered Farms
Women have been farmers for as long as there have been farms. But data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture show the percentage of farms operated principally by women nearly tripled — to 14 percent from 5 percent — between 1978, when the USDA’s Census of Agriculture began recording the gender of principal farm operators, and 2007. The percentage of farms with women as the principal operators is highest in the West and in New...
Women and Business: The Importance of Putting a Woman on Our Currency
When U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., proposed in April replacing President Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill with a famous female from American history, she was advancing what a grass-roots group, Women On 20s, had proposed earlier in the year. Women On 20s wanted to mark the 100th anniversary of women obtaining the vote, which will occur in 2020, with a new $20 bill celebrating that milestone. The group even conducted a survey, which...
Women and Business: The Importance of Putting a Woman on Our Currency
When U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., proposed in April replacing President Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill with a famous female from American history, she was advancing what a grass-roots group, Women On 20s, had proposed earlier in the year. Women On 20s wanted to mark the 100th anniversary of women obtaining the vote, which will occur in 2020, with a new $20 bill celebrating that milestone. The group even conducted a survey, which...
Women and Business: Gift Shop at DHMC Has a New Name, but Same Mission
Changes are coming to Dartmouth–Hitchcock Medical Center’s “Pink Smock” gift shop, which was started in the old hospital in Hanover in 1971, expanded at the Lebanon location and soon will include a website for easy ordering and delivery. The nonprofit shop, a program of the medical center’s volunteer services department, is staffed by more than 60 volunteer cashiers and buyers, many of them women, who are involved in “shared...
Women and Business: Margo Baldwin’s Unlikely Path to Publishing Leader
Margo Baldwin’s career path has been anything but traditional. It includes studying different subjects at colleges on both coasts, a big career change, a year in Mexico and a 10-year break from her business, Chelsea Green Publishing. Modest, Baldwin credits her husband, Ian, and their investors, employees and authors for the success of their business, which has won many awards, including Notable Book of the Year honors from the...
Women and Business: Margo Baldwin’s Unlikely Path to Publishing Leader
Margo Baldwin’s career path has been anything but traditional. It includes studying different subjects at colleges on both coasts, a big career change, a year in Mexico and a 10-year break from her business, Chelsea Green Publishing. Modest, Baldwin credits her husband, Ian, and their investors, employees and authors for the success of their business, which has won many awards, including Notable Book of the Year honors from the...
Women and Business: MSNBC Journalist Urges Women to Know Their Value
Women must understand their value in the workplace and learn to communicate that value to their superiors. They must stop apologizing. And they must begin to fight for themselves and for what they deserve. “That,” as Mika Brzezinski, co-host of the MSNBC television program Morning Joe, wrote in one of her recent best-selling books, “is the next chapter in the story that began with the women’s rights movement.” Brzezinski was at the...
The Thin Mint MBA
Girl Scout cookies are more than a springtime indulgence for those with a sweet tooth. Often, they represent a girl’s first opportunity to begin learning the skills necessary to become a successful businesswoman. As the more than 400 Upper Valley girls who participate in Girl Scouts wrapped up their cookie sales in April, I interviewed some of their leaders about the business skills their charges are acquiring. Girl Scout Daisies, who...
