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Monthly Archives: May, 2012

End of CIMBA Week 3

Posted on May 31, 2012 — Leave a Comment

It is hard to believe, but today marks the end of the third week of the CIMBA program. Only one more week to go. The program is certainly moving by very quickly. After class this morning, the students will be jet-setting off on their final travel weekend of the program. There is a large group [...]

Category: CIMBA, Travel

Company Visit to Nardini

Posted on May 29, 2012 — Leave a Comment

This afternoon my CIMBA class took a field trip to visit the corporate offices and production facility of Nardini, a grappa distillery located in Bassano del Grappa. Nardini has produced grappa since 1779 and has been a family-owned business for seven generations. Our host for the corporate tour was Michigan native, Sharla Ault, who now [...]

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Climbing Mt. Grappa

Posted on May 29, 2012 — Leave a Comment

Yesterday afternoon, my wife and I were accompanied by Kansas State University marketing professor Swinder Janda on a hike to the summit of Mt. Grappa. The 5,823′ mountain looms over the CIMBA campus, just a few miles from Paderno del Grappa, beckoning to be climbed. While a group of CIMBA students took a tour bus [...]

Category: CIMBA, Travel

Italy Earthquake – v. 2.0

Posted on May 29, 2012 — Leave a Comment

As the national news media has been reporting today, northern Italy experienced another earthquake earlier this morning. A magnitude 5.8 quake was centered near Modena, Italy, which is approximately 150km (about 90 miles) from the CIMBA campus in Paderno del Grappa.  This was the second earthquake centered in that area during the last two weeks [...]

Category: CIMBA, Travel

CIMBA Faculty Baby Shower

Posted on May 23, 2012 — Leave a Comment

Yesterday the CIMBA faculty hosted a baby shower for Anna Fiumicetti, the undergraduate campus manager in Paderno del Grappa. Anna is on maternity leave this semester, but she brought cute little baby Dana Grace to campus so she could meet the faculty, who showered her with school apparel. Anna is the lifeblood of the CIMBA [...]

Category: CIMBA

Henry Fund Alumni Update

Posted on May 23, 2012 — Leave a Comment

Last week I heard from Tippie School of Management and Henry Fund alum, Jana (Murphy) Vaughn, who is a Corporate Financial Analyst with IHS Inc. in the Denver, CO area. Jana was a member of the 2004 Henry Fund research team and covered the fund’s consumer staples holdings. In her email, Jana noted that she [...]

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Krause Fund Alumni Update

Posted on May 23, 2012 — Leave a Comment

This week I heard from Tippie alum, Bill Schwartz, who was a member of the Krause Fund research team (technology sector) in the spring of 2001. Bill is a Regional Vice President with DWS Investments (part of Deutsche Bank Group).  He recently added Iowa to his territory region, so it will be great to have [...]

Category: Krause Fund

CIMBA Weekend Travel

Posted on May 22, 2012 — Leave a Comment

Last weekend was the first travel opportunity for the CIMBA summer session students. A majority of the students traveled to Cinque Terra, but there were also groups of students who visited Florence, Venice, and Verona. Our family spent the weekend in Malcesine, Italy, along the northern shore of Lake Garda, one of the largest glacial [...]

Category: CIMBA, Travel

First Week of CIMBA Classes

Posted on May 18, 2012 — Leave a Comment

Today marks the end of the first week of classes for the CIMBA summer program. The “semester” is moving by quickly. Since this is a short weekend, the students are choosing to travel relatively close. A large group of students have organized a trip to Cinque Terre, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site on [...]

Category: CIMBA, Travel

Snow on Mt. Grappa

Posted on May 16, 2012 — Leave a Comment

This morning CIMBA students were greeted to snow on the higher elevations of Mt. Grappa, which looms on the horizon from campus. Temperatures last night reached the mid-40s in Paderno del Grappa, with rain moving through the area. The snow-capped peak made for a beautiful backdrop to classes today. Today was also my full day [...]

Category: CIMBA, Travel
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Todd Houge

Todd Houge is the Curt and Carol Lane Faculty Fellow in the Tippie College of Business. He teaches applied equity valuation, applied portfolio management, and wealth management courses to undergraduate and MBA students. Todd also supervises the department’s award-winning Henry Fund and Krause Fund programs, which provide a real-world, money-management opportunity for UI students.

Todd received a Ph.D. in Finance and an MBA from the University of Iowa. He also earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Wartburg College and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation from the CFA Institute.

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