Facebook shares began trading publicly this past month. The Initial Public Offering (IPO) of Facebook was the most exciting and over-hyped IPO in a long time… maybe ever. Everyone wanted in on it because everyone was sure the stock price would do nothing but go up after the first minute of trading. The media absolutely…
Mindy Corporon was unanimously elected to the Blue Valley Educational Foundation Board of Directors, and will begin her term as of July 1, 2012. The Blue Valley Educational Foundation was created as a non-profit organization, separate from the district itself, in order to help supplement the needs of the students in the Blue Valley School…
I just returned from back-to-back conferences featuring some of the brightest minds in the investment industry. The Strategic Investment Conference, May 2-5, was followed by the 65th annual Conference of the CFA Institute May 6-9. At the CFA Conference, Daniel Kahneman delivered a talk he called “Psychology for Behavioral Finance” in which he attempted to…
Mindy recently took a little time to have some fun with fellow Helzberg Entrepreneurial Mentoring Program (HEMP) participants at a "casino night" the program's organizers threw on April 19. While HEMP is a business mentoring program, the participants are usually hard at work and don't often just get to mingle and network in a fun…
The United States Supreme Court recently heard arguments regarding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act… also known as Obamacare (you can read all 906 pages of it at http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-111hr3590enr/pdf/BILLS-111hr3590enr.pdf). At issue is whether it is constitutional to enact a law forcing every citizen to purchase health insurance… or pay a fine/tax/penalty if they don’t.…
