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At age ten, Kent Andersen set his sights on being a doctor. He never once doubted his future in medicine—that is, until he submitted his medical school application. To the shock of friends and family, Andersen decided being a doctor wasn’t what he wanted to spend his life doing after all.
With the exterior complete and the interior finish work picking up pace, the Tanner Building Addition is quickly coming to life.
The retirement question often surrounds how much money you’re making, saving, and spending. It’s all about the time when work ends and, presumably, fun begins. You’ve either been stashing cash away, buying stocks, or even building a family business with the possible goal of selling it and enjoying retirement. Yet once retiree life begins, the financial work doesn’t suddenly end. The question now becomes: How will you make your savings last so you don’t run out of money before you run out of life?
If you think about the decisions you make between the ages of eighteen and thirty, you’ll realize they have a fundamental impact on where your life actually ends up.
Judith Martin, of Miss Manners newspaper fame, wrote in a recent column, "Question: At what age should children be taught how to eat properly? Answer: In their mid-to late-twenties. Question: What is the best venue for this instruction?
This is the third of a five-part personal financial planning series sponsored by the Peery Institute of Financial Services. The next installment, about getting out of debt, will appear in the Fall 2005 issue.
In finance there’s a well-known problem called the principal-agent conflict. The conflict arises when managers and owners of a firm have different incentives. When that happens, managers may make decisions that benefit themselves at the expense of owners.
A student-initiated fundraiser is reaching new heights at the Marriott School. The second annual Corporate Climb, held 26 March 2005, helped raise more than $12,000 for the school’s annual fund. Participants sprinted up stairs and raced around corners—but not because they were late for class.
Looking at the proliferation of business school rankings may make you feel like you’re staring down an IRS tax form. They’re complex, constantly changing, and often confusing. In fact, there are now more major business school rankings than major accounting firms. So why are there so many different rankings? What is the school ranked and why? Administrators and faculty are often asked these questions. The problem is, the answers are not simple and are rarely consistent over time. Nonetheless, examining the fine print and contrasting the perspectives of some of the most prominent rankings provides some answers and valuable insights. 
Today’s graduates enter the workforce in the midst of a tremendous famine—not a famine of bread and water—but a famine of time for what makes life worth living. The realities of a global 
An employee who underperforms usually belongs to either the “can do/won’t do” or the “will do/can’t do” category. Those who can but won’t have motivation problems and those who will but can’t have performance problems associated with lack of skills.
Good morning. It’s great to be with you today. You are truly an awesome sight. The last time I spoke at a graduation was at my high school ceremony some thirty-three years ago. Then as now, I find it a very humbling task. 
More than 20 million Americans are counting on their 401(k) investments to help see them through retirement. Some predict that 401(k) holdings will grow from $500 billion to more than $2 trillion by 2006.1