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Mellody Hobson: Leading One of America’s Largest African American-owned investment firms

Mellody Hobson Mellody Hobson was born in Chicago, Illinois. She attended St. Ignatius College Prep high school, and Princeton University, where she graduated from Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1991. After her graduation from Princeton, Hobson joined Ariel Investments (one of the largest African American-owned money management and mutual fund companies in the United States) as an intern. There she gradually ascended the corporate ladder from her position as an intern, to become the firm’s senior vice president and director of marketing; and in 2000, Hobson became the President of Ariel, managing over $10 billion in assets. Owing to her exceptional leadership, Hobson serves on the board of several organizations, including the the Chicago Public Education Fund, Chicago Public Library, and the Sundance Institute. She is a director of the Starbucks Corporation, The Estée Lauder Companies Inc., Dreamworks Animation…

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Kids Zone: 7 Ways to Teach Your Child Good Manners

I have often wondered how some parents get it right and others fail woefully. Teaching kids to be polite and well mannered is not a function for the minder or the school teachers. Parents have a big role to play; Yes! In the hustle and bustle of our daily lives, moms and dads may not always have the time to focus on teaching their kids proper etiquette, yet we often wonder why some children are so polite.

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Innovations 4 HER

Declara: Individualizing Learning Pathways

Ramona Pierson – CEO, Declara Declara is a type of social network that links everyone in a company or an organization. With the help of algorithms developed by Ramona Pierson; Declara’s system learns how people interact, what types of questions they’re looking to answer, and who can best answer them. Ramona Pierson, served as a mariner for 22 years; and she spent most days stuck in an office at the El Toro air station near Irvine, Calif. She was good with math and held top-secret assignments, creating algorithms to aid fighter attack squadrons. Pierson enjoyed the covert puzzling. As a kid growing up in Waco, Tex., and Southern California, Pierson discovered she could do math in her head. Rather than pulling out pencil and paper, she’d use techniques akin to meditation and visualization to process equations. Pierson joined the Corps at 18 in exchange for two years of college tuition.…

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Fashion & Beauty

Style or fashion?

Boma Benjy Iwuoha

Fashion is commonly defined as a popular way of dressing during a particular time or among a particular group of people. I guess we could say this means that there should be a particular time, place or occasion for a particular dressing. For instance, you are charged with interviewing three candidates for a top management position, at a Fortune 500 company and they walked into the venue dressed like this:

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Innovations 4 HER

The Dialysave: An Amazing Health Care Innovation by Anya Pogharian

Anya Pogharian, an 18 year old Armenian Teen, Living in Montreal Canada, developed the Dialysave, a portable, dialysis machine which costs $500, against the conventional $30,000 machines, currently in use around the world. Anya Pogharian She told Fortune Magazine that the Dialysave started as a science fair project, inspired by her time working at a local hospital’s dialysis unit, Anya was shocked at the huge cost of the conventional dialysis machines. Anya developed the $500 dialysis machine (Dialysave), a project on which she spent 300 hours, 30 times the required hours for her science project. The Dialysave has captured the attention of major international figures such President Bill Clinton and the Cleveland Clinic. Anya stated that she set her sights on inventing a cheap and portable dialysis machine, and making it accessible to people in developing countries. Though she’s still too young for med school, Anya might just transform the dialysis process…

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Girl Talk

Girl’s Talk: Fostering a healthy relationship between sisters

For many parents and guardians, cultivating close relationships between their kids ranks amongst their greatest concerns. We all dream of having kids who enjoy being in the company of one another, and have each other’s back. Oftentimes, this is not the case. We ask ourselves, what are we doing wrong? Why can’t they just get along? Siblings are bound to fight, argue, and compete, but at what point does it become unhealthy? What steps can we take as parents to foster a healthy relationship between siblings? Here, Lucinda Rosenfeld, the Author of “The Pretty One”, (A novel that explores the relationship of three sisters) highlights 10 important tips for raising sisters that get along. Don’t compare your daughters’ achievements, however small — e.g. “Penelope ate all her peas. Why didn’t you?” Don’t compare the big victories, either — i.e. “Your sister managed to get all A’s and still find time…

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