Laura Cohn

Freelance Journalist

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Laura Cohn is an experienced business journalist who has reported from London, Brussels, Doha, New York, and Washington, DC. She has been a contributing editor at Fortune, a correspondent for BusinessWeek, and an associate editor at Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine. Laura's stories have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, the Washington Post, and Inc. magazine, among others. She has earned recognition and awards for her work from the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME), the Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW), and the World Leadership Forum in London. Laura lives in Brooklyn with her husband and their two children.

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Sexual Harassment Survivors Talk About the Aftermath of Going Public

For most women, filing a sexual harassment suit is a career-ender.

Fortune

This Female Exec Changed Her Name to a Man’s to Get a Job. Should You?

Name bias is prevalent in corporate hiring.

Together magazine

Diamonds are still forever

While the rest of Belgium’s economy may be struggling to pull out of a doubledip recession, the $57 billion diamond business in Antwerp is humming.

Financial Times

Luxury Goods: Chocolatiers savour sales to emerging market new rich

Russia and the Middle East are refining their taste in luxury foods

Kiplinger's Personal Finance

Retire South of the Border

Warm weather and a low cost of living lure retirees from the U.S.

Kiplinger's Personal Finance

What You Need to Know About Tipping

Be generous with people who provide you with good service all year long. But don’t fall for the tip jar.

BusinessWeek

Shopping for Marks & Sparks

Retail baron Philip Green may make an $18 billion offer that could set off a bidding war.

BusinessWeek

For London, What Price Olympic Security?

After the bombings, London's estimate for the 2012 games seems way too low.

BusinessWeek

Europe's IPO Trickle Could Become a Flood

After a lull, European investors are ready to take risks again.

BusinessWeek

The Few, the Proud--the Reporters

At a crash Marine training course for journalists, I learned how to digest Marine food, don a gas mask in nine seconds -- and avoid politics.

BusinessWeek

The very model of a postwar state?

Energy-rich, U.S.-friendly Qatar is a leader in reform.

BusinessWeek

Tommy Franks Takes the Stage--Finally

And that stage at HQ in Qatar is as high-tech as the machine the top general -- who had previously been silent -- commands.

BusinessWeek

Housing is Not a House of Cards

At least that's what Alan Greenspan says. Here's why.

BusinessWeek

The Arctic Isn't the Only Flashpoint

Where the drilling debate could get hot in the lower 48.

BusinessWeek

Need Help with the Health-Care Maze?

Patient-advocacy groups can produce results.

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