By JA_Guest
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March 18, 2011
Tony Best, President & CEO of SM Energy Company and Junior Achievement board member, says it best: “Ethics is doing the right thing, no matter what.” He recently inspired a marketing class at Grandview High School in Aurora to do exactly that, and it caught on.
Tony volunteered his time one afternoon as part of Junior [...]
By srobbins
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April 2, 2010
We are honored to announce JA Board Member Greg Anton, Anton Collins Mitchell LLP (ACM) founding partner, has been nominated to serve as Vice Chair of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) Board of Directors, beginning in October 2010. Previously, Greg served on the AICPA’s governing Council (2003 – 2009), including a three-year [...]
By srobbins
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April 1, 2010
April is Financial Literacy Month and Junior Achievement’s mission is to create a generation of financially literate young people
Nearly half (45 percent) of responding teens in the eleventh annual “Teens and Personal Finance Survey”, conducted by Junior Achievement (JA) and The Allstate Foundation, say they are unsure about how to invest their money, and 37 [...]
By JA_Guest
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March 23, 2010
I recently spent an enlightening and inspiring morning discussing business ethics with a hundred or so Smoky Hill High School students. The curriculum was the Junior Achievement Capitalism with a Conscience program, and the discussions were held in two sessions, each of which combined two business classes. I have now conducted several of these sessions, [...]
By srobbins
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March 22, 2010
New Survey shows teens hear a lot about the economy, but they don’t feel they know enough – they want to learn more and Junior Achievement, The Allstate Foundation and the state of Colorado are responding!
During these tough economic times, 48 percent of Denver teens say they’re willing to skip eating out and 44 [...]