As the 2008-2009 case competition has ended and winner have been announced, the Hot Mommas Project team would like to thank all founding case authors and finalists. Without these inspiration women, the Hot Mommas Project would not have been possible.
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Welcome to the Hot Mommas Project Learning Series where we showcase a Hot Mommas Project case selected by a student team member or guest. The series is targeted toward educators and leadership groups seeking authentic role models in addition to business/career lessons. A complementary podcast accompanies each blog post. Episodes feature interviews with Hot Mommas Project founder Kathy Korman Frey and student contributors.
Student contributor: Rachel Roizen, a GW student and Hot Mommas Project team member.
Featured case: Brenda Rhodes’ “CEO – Actress – Producer – Mom and Lover!”
In her case Rhodes elaborates on her several attempts at entrepreneurialism and how she came to run a $300 million business. She also discusses her background and her involvement in acting and producing.
Brenda Rhodes was the 1st Runner Up in the 2008-2009 Hot Mommas Project Global Case Competition!
Case themes include: scaling a company, finding your talents, family business, addiction, overcoming challenge, relationships, self confidence.
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Saranne Rothberg should be dead right now. Or, at least, that’s what her doctors told her. Saranne’ s journey is one of not only conquering the disease, but going on to start a leading non-profit to help others with the disease.
Last week, The Hot Mommas Project participated in our first radio show with hostMark Amtoweramd guests, Cynthia de Lorenzi , Marie Russell, and your humble blog author. Here we are, in studio, recording the show. I am wearing my David and Golaith Tees “Chicks Rule” t shirt. There was a “cough” button by my microphone. Having never done a radio show before, I thought that was cool. As The Hot Mommas Project continues to research the work-life-balance of… Read More »The Way Women Work
The Hot Mommas Project Case Study Competition has launched (what is this? See our blog brief.) Now, it’s time to get the word out. One of the ways to do that is search engine optimization and other social media tools. Lessons learned from BlogHer DC this past week are the subject of this post. It took a while getting there, however. Pictured here: My shower running.’ White Noise Machine Rather… Read More »Building a Million Dollar Business Part Time #12: Search Engine Optomization and Link Love
This week I attended the BlogHerDC conference. It was awesome and some of the takeaways can be found in our insider’s blog. At the conference, I met Heather Chapman who writes the blog: “The Mother Tongue.” Heather: Do you have kids? Me: Yeah. Two. 5 and 2. Heather: Mine are 4 and 1. Any antics there I should know about? Me: We didn’t leave my son alone with my daughter… Read More »Work-Life Guide for Crazy Busy Moms
We are now shifting to quarterly book selections since, let’s be honest, what Hot Momma has time to read? We love Stewart Friedman who teaches at Wharton and “gets it” in a big way. His book Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader. Have a Richer Life. is about being a leader in all parts of your life. Said another way, it is about YOU driving the agenda as much as… Read More »Fall 2008: Hot Mommas Project Book Club Selection – Total Leadership
A global study shows a correlation between leaders' sense of balance and their potential for career advancement. This is a second study, aside from ours, showing a link between perceptions of professional success and balance. Read more here:http://results.envisialearning.com/?p=106 Links to Hot Mommas Project research on balance and success: http://hotmommasproject.blogspot.com/2008/07/hot-mommas-project-work-life-balance.html Scroll down on this one:http://business.gwu.edu/news/archive/2008/0829.cfm
Guess what? Work life balance has been written into law in Australia. http://www.careerandkids.com/work-life-balance-its-the-law/. The following link, under "policies," delineates some of the US's policies – like the Family Leave Medical Act. However, it seems to fairly common knowledge that the US is lackluster in it's family-oriented policies compared to other wealthy nations.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work-life_balance We – and our employers – need to be the champions of our own work life balance solutions.… Read More »Work Life Balance-The Law
Welcome to the first in a series releasing preliminary findings from the Hot Mommas Project National Mentor Survey. What: The Hot Mommas Project produces curricula for dynamic women leaders. Our case studies serve as role models on paper for girls and women around the globe. Where: We are housed at the George Washington University School of Business. Why: Entrepreneurship research ties role models to feelings of self-efficacy. These same studies… Read More »Work-Life Balance Research #1: Women Who Are Balanced Feel More Successful