Financial Advisor, Waddell and Reed AGE: 28 JOB DESCRIPTION: As a certified financial planner, my focus is working with companies and individuals in the professional bass fishing industry. My partner, Carroll Wilkerson, and I have a team financial planning practice that emphasizes a client-centered approach with a proactive, personal touch of high-level service. Locally, we […]
If I were conducting a business leadership seminar or a course in how to groom new leaders from within, an idea University of Missouri curators are considering, I could find few cautionary tales more instructive than the sex-abuse scandals that have rocked the Catholic Church. Last month, the Archdiocese of Los Angeles paid $660 million
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The Edward Jones Dome. Sprint Center. Scott Trade Center. The Nextel Cup. The Buick Open. Wimbledon. Nike. Reebok. Coca-Cola. Budweiser. Ohio State University. The University of Michigan. The University of Nebraska. Harvard University. The University of Texas. Kent State. The University of Missouri. How important is a name? Companies like those named in the first
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Wading into the Great Controversy over where Columbia’s fourth high school should be placed, I have to say that the tentative decision to build where corn now sprouts at the southeast corner of Range Line Street and New Haven Road beyond the city limits looks to me like it really isn’t too far off the
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Robert P. Torretta, a certified public accountant and individual practitioner in St. Charles, is the 2007 chairman of the Missouri Society of Certified Public Accountants, a professional development organization representing nearly 10,000 CPA members in public practice, industry, government and education. Established in 1909, the MSCPA provides members with continuing education, governmental advocacy and networking
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Summer … Flip-flops, tank tops and shorts can be worn to attend a barbecue, but this type of casual clothing rarely qualifies as appropriate office attire. As the mercury rises and we enter the dog days of summer, some employees may have difficulty discerning what is acceptable to wear to work. We have all worked
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There is little doubt that the first component is in place for a technology-driven economic development strategy to take hold in Columbia. The University of Missouri-Columbia is a powerful research engine, producing new technologies and a highly educated work force. Recent emphasis on commercialization of new technologies has put the university on track to become
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The time has finally arrived. Your child soon will enter college. You’ve been dreaming, planning and saving for this day since your child could barely walk. Now that you have the college bills in hand and have furnished the dorm room and looked at the book list, are you still coming up short? You are
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Veteran developer Rob Wolverton’s analysis of the local real estate market and the city’s breakdown of sales tax revenue illustrate how the sharp decline in residential construction has stunted Columbia’s economy. There was what Wolverton called “an astonishing” 34 percent decrease in new-home construction during the first half of this year and an 11 percent
ey, Super-size that Food (Bank) order! Peggy Kirkpatrick, executive director of the Central Missouri Food Bank, is trying hard to hide her smile. This time of year always means lots of work with the possibility of a big payoff. After all, it’s time for the “Score Against Hunger” campaign, in which each donor pledges a
