Advancing Olin Alumni is a series of classes we offer alumni during Olin Reunion weekend. The sessions feature Olin's very best professors speaking on the most cutting edge topics and research. This year, for the first time, the sessions are open to non-reunion year alumni.

The "Problem" with Corporate Growth
Todd R. Zenger, Robert and Barbara Frick Professor of Business Strategy
Friday, October 5, 2007
2:45 - 4:00 pm
Simon Hall, Room 106

Explore the significant challenge of sustaining corporate growth. Discuss a framework for evaluating and exploiting growth opportunities. Examine how effective organizations develop processes that relentlessly identify and solve customer problems.

Get Rewired For Your Next Act!
Jeri Sedlar, Author of Don't Retire, REWIRE!
Friday, October 5, 2007
4:00 - 5:15 pm
Simon Hall, Room 103

Planning your personal and professional life has become more challenging as we continue to live longer and healthier lives. "Working in retirement" now takes on a variety of meanings from part-time, full-time, or even cyclical schedules? Motivations for working through retirement vary even more so and include money, ego, entertainment, fulfillment, or a combination of the above. This interactive keynote presentation will get participants to think about where purpose and meaning fit into your life. The future is yours to create. There will be many new opportunities and challenges to consider.

The Politics of Healthcare Reform
Bart H. Hamilton, Ph.D., Robert Brookings Smith Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship
Friday, October 6, 2007
9:30 - 10:45 am
Simon Hall, Room 103

Overlooked Opportunities in Personal Financial Planning
Mike Gordinier, Ph.D. Senior Lecturer in Management
Friday, October 6, 2007
10:45 am - 12:00 pm
Simon Hall, Room 104

Most financially successful individuals have implemented the usual time-tested means for acquiring and preserving wealth. Unfortunately, the truism that "you don't know what you don't know" also applies to personal financial planning. Explore some overlooked - yet powerful - techniques for enhancing personal wealth in this session. Topics will include mortgages, insurance, tax reduction programs, estate planning ideas, newer investment vehicles and getting children started down the path to financial security.

Registration:
All Advancing Olin Alumni Sessions are $10.

To register for any classes, please download and return the registration form via fax to Erin Doty at 314-935-7297.

For more information or questions, please contact Erin Doty at 314-935-8495 or erindoty@wustl.edu.