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On The Record: Are we sexist? Time to self-report

Take a quick scan our 2015 Book of Lists Most Influential Business Leader list.

If you are like Jean Baker, owner of Jean M. Baker & Associates, you’re likely disappointed.

And so am I. 

There …

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Guest Opinion: Amazing women do not just happen

BY BRIANNE FITZGERALD | Resource development director, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Iowa

 

I surprise others all the time when I share that I have several fantastic mentors I meet with on a …

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The Elbert Files: Paulsen’s economic crystal ball

Economist James Paulsen often looks back to predict the future. He isn’t always right, but his track record is better than most.

The Iowa State University graduate typically writes one to three newsletters each month …

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Guest opinion: Speak up already!

BY PARITOSH KASOTIA | Former team lead, Iowa Energy Office

The instructor asked a question. I knew the answer and desperately wanted to participate, but I didn’t speak.

 

Throughout my life, this story repeated …

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Guest opinion: Speak up already!

BY PARITOSH KASOTIA | Former team lead, Iowa Energy Office

The instructor asked a question. I knew the answer and desperately wanted to participate, but I didn’t speak.

 

Throughout my life, this story repeated …

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The Elbert Files: Airport rebuild: how big is big?

The proposal to build a new $420 million terminal at Des Moines International Airport has been described as the largest vertical public construction project ever proposed in Iowa.

To understand what that means, it helps …

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On the Record: Cow Town, Sow Town…

Cow town, sow town, plow town… double down 

“How do you make cows cool?” 

Zach Mannheimer leaned over and asked me that during the midst of our Feb. 25 Power Breakfast exploring the Cultivation Corridor …

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VOTE: Are there enough resources to educate future women business owners?

 

While any entrepreneur, male or female, faces a number of challenges when starting a business, women in particular are forced to overcome their own unique set of obstacles on the path to business ownership.…

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VOTE: Are there enough resources to educate future women business owners?

 

While any entrepreneur, male or female, faces a number of challenges when starting a business, women in particular are forced to overcome their own unique set of obstacles on the path to business ownership.…

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Guest opinion: The secret history of women

BY TERRY HERNANDEZ | Executive director, Chrysalis Foundation

When I was in ninth grade, women’s history was not a subject taught at Franklin Junior High School in Des Moines. It wasn’t a course of study …