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I’ll be signing off this blog next week and taking up the reins at another job. Before I go, let’s take a trip to last October — before the birth of this blog — when GWI ran this ad to promote the region’s educated workforce.
We soon discovered that there’s a blog, whose name is unspeakable […]
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Filed under: Demographics, GWI In the News
Today’s “Snapshot” in the Money section of USA Today takes a different look at the concentration of female executives in Greater Washington — focusing on the percentage of executives that are women. Once again, the region tops the list, with women making up 27% of C-level executives in the area. Below is a scanned version […]
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Paris Hilton was on “Larry King Live” last week touting her business skills:
“But a lot of people don’t know that I’m a businesswoman, and I run several businesses. And I like to go out, as well, and socialize.” — Paris Hilton
That’s well and good, but I wonder how well she’d stack up against the many […]
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Mayor Bloomberg might be figuring out his political affiliation, but here at GWI, we’re more interested in the recent Bloomberg news story on the $4 billion invested by New York firms in DC real estate. Here’s the print story on Bloomberg.com, and below is the Bloomberg TV spot, which includes a couple quotes from GWI’s […]
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I don’t like being self-promotional on this blog, but hey, we’re a marketing organization and we’ve had a lot of good news lately. So here’s some of the recent news coverage we’ve received.
Before I do that, however, a special thanks to Kim Hart of the Post I.T. blog for a little promo of Regional Biz […]
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How private is the region’s private sector?
According to Knight Kiplinger, it “isn’t so private.” Kiplinger addressed this topic in his keynote address at last week’s annual meeting. We were planning on reporting on it this week, but the Washington Post saved us the work by printing an adapted version of his speech in today’s business […]
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The 2007 Regional Report is online, and it’s already making news. An Associated Press story circulating today focuses on how the region has the nation’s highest concentration of female top executives. The total number, as the AP reports, is more than 14,000. But here’s a look at how other metro areas stack up.
Top Female Executives […]
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If you listen to Uncle Sam, you could drive from Washington, DC, to Jefferson County in West Virginia (about half-way to Ohio) and still be in Greater Washington…but if you drive 15 minutes from the District’s edge to Anne Arundel County, you’d be off the map.
At GWI, we take a different — and we think […]
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