On Newly Corporate, Jennifer Robinson has a great post for professional women on the vices and virtues of changing your name when you get married.  I’m glad someone else is giving advice on this, because I’ve hemmed and hawed about the issue since my wedding in 2004.    My husband wanted me to take his name, Shankman, but at the ...

At the gym, I was thumbing through a new issue of Time Magazine.  One of the articles was about college wait-listing.  According to Time, the high school class of 2008, 3.4 million strong, is the largest in American history.  As such, getting into a first choice college is a heck of a lot tougher if you had the misfortune of being ...

In the fall of 2004, I published a book called They Don't Teach Corporate in College, which was based upon my experiences as an overachieving twenty-something slogging her way through the business world.  Around this time of year, I always get asked for a few tips for surviving your first job out of college.  For those of you about to ...