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<title><![CDATA[Sharon Barclay]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Sharon has two decades of public relations experience across three continents, both agency and in-house. She specializes in technology, executive visibility, business-to-business and consumer technologies. Over the years she’s worked for clients from start-ups to Fortune 500s such as: HP, Compaq, Computer Associates, Intel, Motorola, Samsung, Airvana, DriverSide, 1&1 Internet, Ziggs, Deloitte, NaviSite, Xircom, Blackhawk Network, and eCoupled.
In 2003, Sharon was part of the team that worked on the PR strategy and execution for the Compaq/HP merger – the largest IT merger in history. While working in the UK she launched the Pentium Pro microprocessor, the Pentium II chip, OverDrive processors, and MMX technology for Intel.
Sharon created 8-Minute PR, a concept similar to Speed Dating that brings together media and executives for an evening of networking, where discussions are limited to eight minutes. She has won multiple awards including PR Week’s PR Innovation of the Year award in 2005, the Communicator Award and a finalist in the American Business Awards.
Sharon has been on numerous panels and has been a guest speaker at Emerson College, Amherst College, The Academy of Art University, Assumption College, Ragan’s Annual Strategic Public Relations conference, the Baystate Technology Alliance, VentureOne Exchange, Wireless Arena and was featured on Voice America’s “Stars of PR”.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[New Research on Procurement Practices of the Fortune 100]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 10:41:04 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[New Research Gives Insight into the Procurement Practices of the Top 100 US Public Companies. TradingPartners Finds Most Successful Companies have Advanced Spend Management Tools but Few Make a Commitment at Executive and Board Levels.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Inserting Emotional IQ into Your MBA Essays]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 15:30:13 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Business schools want leaders coming in, and even better leaders coming out. Using components of emotional intelligence in your admissions essay — self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy, and social skill — will help to demonstrate a healthy number of these characteristics in your application.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Inserting Emotional IQ into Your MBA Essays]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Business schools want leaders coming in, and even better leaders coming out. Emotional Intelligence components — self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy, and social skill — comprise a useful framework to use when writing admissions essays. A candidate need not show all of these five components, but should be able to demonstrate a healthy number of these characteristics in the application.]]></description>
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