Dear Friends —
Please join us for another Drucker Business Forum and feel free to share with your colleagues, friends and clients — our upcoming Drucker Business Forum with Jane Bryant Quinn and David Lazarus (info below). Our next Forum is on February 3 with Meg Whitman, former CEO of eBay and candidate for Governor of California. Another invite for that will go out next week.
Cheers,
Ted Habte-Gabr
Producer,
Drucker Business Forum
Join us for another DRUCKER BUSINESS FORUM
Co-Presented with KPCC 89.3 featuring:
Jane Bryant Quinn
Personal Finance Columnist, author, TV commentator
in conversation with David Lazarus, Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times
Making the Most of Your Money
in the 2010 Economy
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Breakfast: 7:45 A.M. TO 8:30 A.M.
Forum: 8:30 A.M. TO 9:30 A.M.
LOS ANGELES PUBLIC LIBRARY
630 West Fifth Street, Downtown Los Angeles
RSVP by Wednesday, January 27 to:
Ted Habte-Gabr ted@druckerbusinessforum.org
Jane Bryant Quinn is a nationally known commentator on personal finance, with books and columns read and trusted by millions. She has won an Emmy Award and the Janus Award for outstanding coverage of news on television. She received the Gerald Loeb award for distinguished lifetime achievement in business and financial journalism. She’s a two-time winner of the John Hancock Award for Excellence in Business and Financial Journalism and a three-time winner of the National Press Club’s Consumer Journalism award. In 1997, she was named one of the “100 Most Influential Business Journalists” by The Journalist and Financial Reporter newsletter.
In her long career, she has established herself as one of America’s most reliable voices for people trying to manage their money well. In her public policy writings, she addresses matters of top concern to everyone, including investor protection, health insurance, Social Security, and the sufficiency of retirement plans.
Her career includes one the country’s most successful newspaper columns, published twice-weekly and syndicated by The Washington Post Writers Group to more than 250 newspapers. It was still growing when she retired it, after 27 years. She wrote a biweekly column for Newsweek magazine for 30 years. She has also written a biweekly columns for Bloomberg.com and long-running monthly columns for Woman’s Day and Good Housekeeping.
Jane worked extensively in television. She hosted her own program on the Public Broadcasting System, a personal-finance series called “Take Charge!” She co-hosted an investment series, “Beyond Wall Street,” which also ran on PBS. She worked ten years for CBS News, first on the “CBS Morning News,” appearing twice weekly, then on “The Evening News with Dan Rather.” She has also been a regular on ABC’s “The Home Show” as well as a guest on “Good Morning America,” “Nightline,” “The News Hour with Jim Lehrer” and many other programs.
Jane’s best-selling book, “Making the Most of Your Money,” is a comprehensive guide to personal finance, named by Consumers Union as the best personal finance book on the market. The first edition, published in 1991, has been in print and popular ever since. The third edition, “Making the Most of Your Money NOW,” was published in December, 2009. In 2006, she wrote “Smart and Simple Financial Strategies for Busy People,” her personal list of the best, low-cost strategies for saving more money, finding good insurance, planning for college tuition, investing for retirement, and other personal financial topics.
The Drucker Business Forum is produced by the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management with additional support from the Pearson Foundation.
