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Author Archives: Doug McPherson
Profile: Son Nam Nguyen
One of Son Nam Nguyen’s (Fin’90) childhood memories is collecting cans off the inner-city streets of Denver to sell for cash when he was 10.
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Parent Power
One of the last parts of the brain to mature is the prefrontal cortex. What this means is that — please don’t take this the wrong way — the odds are that your 18-year-old isn’t playing with a full deck.
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Profile: Sarah Shupp
Growing up in Dallas, Sarah Schupp (Bus’04) says she always wanted to be an entrepreneur. “I used to get in trouble in elementary school for selling candy to the other kids on the bus, but the detention was worth it,” she says.
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Mind over money-How we spend unexpected cash
It’s a pretty good bet CU professor Peter McGraw could tell you how you’d spend any unexpected money that may come your way.
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Tagged business school, consumer research, money, Peter McGraw
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Science with a twist(er)
It’s doubtful even a tornado could have pulled 9-year-old Brian Argrow away from flickering black-and-white images of a man walking on the moon.
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Profile: Jennifer Veiga
When Jennifer Veiga (PolSci’83) told her dad she was gay, it immediately caused him concern for her political career: “Will that hurt you when you run for office?” he asked.
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Shopping with Donnie
Donnie Lichtenstein, a CU marketing professor, remembers looking in the newspaper as a young child and regularly seeing an ad for barbecue grills from Sears. “They were always, always on sale. I thought, ‘How can that be? They can’t always be on sale.’ I guess my curiosity just grew from there.”
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