Happy Administrative Professionals’ Day to all of the men and women who keep the offices around the world running efficiently and sanely! 

Entrepreneur Magazine’s 2008 Entrepreneur of the Year contest is open for entries. You can enter to be Entrepreneur of the Year if your company has fewer than 100 employees, had at least $500,000 in annual sales in 2007 and you own at least 51% of your business. Follow the links for:

• Entrepreneur of the Year entry form
• Entrepreneur of the Year contest rules (information about eligibility, prizes and restrictions)

Good luck!

Tags: Entrepreneur of the Year, Entrepreneur magazine, women business owners, female entrepreneurs, women on business, women in business, businesswomen

PINK magazine’s March/April 2008 issue names the top 15 women in business. These are the women PINK has named “The Innovators.” PINK calls their list the, “exclusive list of the most influential women driving innovation (and revenue) in corporate America.”

PINK developed their list of the top 15 women in business through nominations from the top 250 public companies as well as through their own research of membership lists of industry organizations and regional women’s groups. After creating a list of candidates, PINK narrowed down the list to the top 15 by finding women who made documented innovative contributions to their companies that directly impacted those companies’ profits and/or customers. Continue reading »

The 35th Veuve Clicquot Business Woman of the Year Award will be given out in April 2008. Nominations are being accepted through February 15, 2008. According to today’s press release from Veuve Clicquot, the award recognizes successful British businesswomen with judges focusing on the following qualities:

• Achievement
• Motivational ability
• Innovation
• Creativity
• Business acumen
• Entrepreneurship
• Dynamism
• Charisma
• A profound concern for the sustainable growth of her business and development of her team
• A focus on responsible and sustainable growth as it relates to the environment

Do you know a British woman in business who fits the bill? Why not nominate her on the Veuve Clicquot website?

Tags: Veuve Clicquot, businesswoman of the year award, women in business, women on business. female executives, female leaders, businesswomen

Global EXEC Women is an organization comprised of women in executive positions in the business and technology sectors and provides networking, learning and knowledge-sharing opportunties to its members. Recently, Global EXEC Women recognized seven female executives for their exceptional global leadership and innovation at the organization’s International Women of Influence Awards. Continue reading »

Katrina Markoff, founder of Vosges-Haut Chocolat, won the 2007 OPEN from American Express & Entrepreneur Magazine Woman of the Year Contest. Katrina Markoff launched her gourmet chocolate company in 1998. While working out of her Chicago apartment, she created a line of specialy chocolates using a variety of exotic ingredients from around the world. The steps she took next to bring her chocolates to a larger market would bring her great success over the course of the next decade. Continue reading »

American Business Media (an association of business information providers founded in 1906) is dedicating the entire month of January 2008 to women working in the field of business-t0-business.  Specialized web content will include articles, blogs and videos from leading businesswomen including, “Allison Arden, newly appointed publisher of Advertising Age and Creativity, and Deirdre Bigley, VP of Worldwide Advertising & Interactive for IBM.” Continue reading »

The Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association (HBA) named Johnson & Johnson’s (NYSE: JNJ) Women’s Leadership Initiative the first winner of the HBA ACE award.  The award recognizes the ‘Advancement, Commitment and Engagement’ of women’s careers in the healthcare industry, which is also the primary mission of the HBA. Continue reading »

Wall Street Journal released its 2007 list of 50 women in business to watch.  The list includes women from a variety of industries, which is great to see, but what I also found interesting was an article on the Wall Street Journal Online that provides an excerpt of an interview moderated by Wall Street Journal’s senior editor, Carol Hymowitz, and six women executives including: Continue reading »

First, a big thank you to Gayla McCord at MomGadget for giving me the heads up about this topic. 

Entrepreneur magazine and Women President’s Organization teamed up to create a list of the 50 Fastest-Growing Women-Owned or Women-Led Companies, and the final list of the Fastest 50 appears in the November 2007 issue of Entrepreneur as well as on the Entrepreneur website.

To create the list of the 50 Fastest-Growing Women-Owned or Women-Led Companies, Entrepreneur and WPO solicited applications from women-led businesses in North America.  Those businesses that met the following criteria were considered for the awards:

• Privately-owned
• Women-owned/led
• Company sales in 2002 must be $50,000 or greater
• 2006 sales must be at least $1 million

It’s amazing to see how much these companies grew in just four years.  The details about the winners can be found after the jump.  Some of the quotes from the winners are very inspirational and motivating. Continue reading »