Barbara Finkelstein’s commercial writing samples
Information technology and business writing (pdf files)
IBM executive speech
The Power of Values to Change the World. Ghostwritten speech for Robert Samson, former sales executive, IBM. Published in “Vital Speeches of the Day,” September 2009, Volume LXXV, No. 9.
Magazine
Life of the Hebrew Free Burial Association. Published in “Viewpoint,” September-October 2009, Volume 51, No. 3. A profile of a not-for-profit organization dedicated to burying indigent Jews.
Essays/Book publications
Summer Long-a-coming (1st chapter)
The first year of nursing (sample chapter)
Return to Poland. Published in Lost on the Map of the World, Peter Lang, 2001, Philippa Kafka, editor. A personal essay about a trip to Poland in 1998 with two Holocaust survivors.
Newsletters
Sample IBM articles
IBM makes the case for genetic privacy. IBM’s chief privacy officer and vice president testified in January 2007 on Capitol Hill in support of legislation to protect U.S. citizens from discrimination based on their genetic makeup. 2 February 2007
IBM prescribes plan for nationwide health system. Moving the country toward interoperable electronic health records. 24 January 2007
Teachers and students use Internet connection to access study materials. Educators can share ideas and materials with each other online thanks to an IBM open technology offering. 11 October 2006
International Sales Center puts domestic teams on the world stage. Find out how your account team can widen your client’s scope of operations. 15 June 2004
Digital media database houses UPS’s rebranding strategy. IT company works with UPS marketing executives to develop a secure repository to save and manage advertising assets. 6 May 2004
Electronic tracer improves health of pharmaceutical supply chain. IT company fights drug counterfeiting. 19 April 2004
Financial services firm helps customers monitor stock performance. Using IT to enhance a financial firm’s portfolio research capabilities. 22 January 2004
Grid solution makes believers out of finance company’s skeptics. The IT infrastructure at the financial services company was screaming out for a grid solution. 8 January 2004
Building a massive medical data system. Developing an exhaustive database to treat genetic diseases. 27 March 2002
Ghostwritten columns
Medicis Pharmaceuticals
Marco Polo imagined the possibilities
A lot of cold air in the helium reserve: Part I, Part II
Map of the human gene: Part I, Part II
Spend the surplus, Carnegie said: Part I, Part II
Don’t blame the dermatologist: Part I, Part II
Be responsible for your own health: Part I, Part II
Dermatology and the Lilliiputians: Part I, Part II
Stymied by regulation: Part I, Part II
Dynacin is David to Lederle’s Goliath!
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (Closed grants)
Financial impact of a competitive payment system on New Jersey hospitals 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Evaluation of the implementation of the AHCPR smoking cessation guideline 1 2 3 4 5
Symposium on mental health policy and managing care in the public interest 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Program to develop emergency medical services for children in rural areas 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
National Basketball Association program to educate youth about the health risks of tobacco use 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Abstinence-based teen drug, HIV and pregnancy prevention program 1 2
Book reviews
The New York Times (incomplete list)
Killing off the soul by Aleksandar Tisma
Holograms of fear by Slavenka Drakulic
Mother country by Elisabeth Russell Taylor
New York Newsday (incomplete list)
Etchings in an hourglass by Kate Simon
Garden of lies by Eileen Goudge and The naked heart by Jacqueline Briskin
Gone by Kit Craig
Husband is the past tense of daddy by Teryl Zarnow; The world of our mothers by Sydney Stahl Weinberg; When you and your mother can’t be friends by Victoria Secunda
In silence: Growing up hearing in a deaf world by Ruth Sidansky
Sages and Dreamers: Hasidic, biblical and talmudic portraits and legends by Elie Wiesel
Saving St. Germ by Carol Muske Dukes
The Plain Dealer
I want a dog by Dayal Kaur Khalsa
O’Keeffe and Stieglitz: An American Romance by Benita Eisler
Perfect together by Nora Johnson
Treetops: A family memoir by Susan Cheever
The Chicago Tribune
Floating in my mother’s palm by Ursula Hegi
Congressional Monthly
