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Executive Q&A: Mortgage CEO focuses on ?precious present?

Steve Jacobson traces the philosophy that guides his business to this day, after 28 years in the mortgage-finance industry, to his time playing college basketball at UW-Madison. Jacobson, 50, was a guard under Coach Bill Cofield in the late 1970s and early 1980s, but it was what then-assistant and now head Badgers coach Bo Ryan used to say about the “precious present” that stuck with him most.