Role models can provide you (and your children) with someone to look up to, model good behaviors, and scaffold reasonable, positive short-term and long-term goals.

University of Technology Sydney provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. It has become a truism that professional athletes, whether they like it or not, “are” role models for ...

What is a role model and what effects do role models have? The term role model is defined as “a person whose behavior, example, or success is or can be emulated by others, especially younger people” ...

Earlier this year Pinterest and Twitter hired their first executives to lead their respective diversity efforts. Many tech companies are embracing such an approach and, as more do so, it’s going to ...

Typecasting has always been prevalent in American film since its origins in the early 20th century. Over the years, actors such as Adam West, John Wayne, Joe Pesci and Will Smith, just to name a few, ...

Have you ever had a role model? Someone in your unit, platoon or squadron? Someone in your family or friend circle? Maybe you admired someone on television or in the news and wanted to be like them?

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As CRN prepares to hand out its third annual Women of the Year Awards, we look at who our finalists for the Role Model of the ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Take a moment and think about your childhood. Who were the people you admired and looked-up-to? Did they inspire and motivate you? Have ...