Bloch Magazine 2007 - Henry W. Bloch School of Management

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Henry W. Bloch School of Business and Public Administration I University of Missouri-Kansas City
BLOCH
2007
From students with dreams to community leaders,
Bloch students are
Shaping the Future
The University of Missouri-Kansas City
Henry W. Bloch School of Business and Public Administration
2007
In this Issue
Message from the Dean
Shaping the Future
Cover Story
2 Amazing Alumni: From students with hopes and goals to role models in
their communities
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Entrepreneurship
Business + Technology + Education = Enterprise Development Laboratory
Minding Business: PhD program launch
From K.C. to U.S.: SourceLink model spreads
It’s in the Bag: Entrepreneur of the Year Awards 2007
Executive MBA
10 A Class Act: Executive MBA students rally to aid TAKE Foundation
12 UMB Financial Corporation: Executive MBA sponsor/student spotlight
13 Talking Shop: Q&A with Karyl Leggio, PhD
Undergraduate Education
14 Savvier Sooner: Bloch’s new undergraduate curriculum
16 The BlochCast Podcast Connection
17 Students by Day: Undergraduate life outside the classroom
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Leadership
The Boardroom Awaits: Profiting from nonprofit involvement
Funkhouser Wins: UMKC alumnus takes office
Peace Corps Volunteers MPA Program
Public Affairs Student Association connects students, community
Financial Services
22 Thought Leaders, Business Builders: Chamber Economic Advisory Board
22 Global Perspectives: Bloch students bank on China experience
23 Information in Context: State Street News Center
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Alumni and Constituent Relations
Letter from Your Alumni Association President
Bloch Alumni Association Board Members
Bloch Launches Bloch Leadership Associates
Regina Reynolds Memorial Scholarship
Class Notes and Alumni Spotlight
Donor Honor Roll
Around the Bloch
32 New Bloch Staff
32 Faculty Contributions
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from the dean
BLOCH
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Managing Editor: Victoria Prater
Writer: Sarah Mote
Photography: Mark McDonald, Kristen Hellstrom
Bloch magazine is published annually by the University of
Missouri-Kansas City Henry W. Bloch School of Business and
Public Administration’s Office of External Relations to
encourage interest and support among our alumni, partners
and friends.
www.bloch.umkc.edu
Dean: O. Homer Erekson
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Associate Dean: Lanny Solomon
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Associate Dean: Karyl Leggio
816-235-2896 | leggiok@umkc.edu
Associate Dean: Kami Thomas
816-235-2214 | thomaska@umkc.edu
Student Services
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Department of Accountancy, Chair: David Donnelly
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Department of Finance, Information Management and
Strategy, Chair: Marilyn Taylor
816-235-6506 | taylorm@umkc.edu
Department of Organizational Leadership and
Marketing, Chair: TBD
Department of Public Affairs, Chair: Robyne Turner
816-235-2894 | turnerrob@umkc.edu
Director of Development: Danny Baker
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Director of Communications: Victoria Prater
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Director of Alumni and Constituent Relations:
Kathryn Houston
816-235-6211 | houstonk@umkc.edu
shape the future
At the Bloch School, we live by the creed that innovation is essential. We are constantly
looking for ways to improve our programs, link to the Kansas City region in creative ways
and recruit high-caliber faculty, staff and students. The dynamic global market for which
we are preparing our students demands that we embrace innovation. In an oft-cited remark,
Jack Welch, former chairman and CEO of General Electric, said “When the rate of change
inside an institution becomes slower than the rate of change outside, the end is in sight.
The only question is when.”
At the Bloch School, we are never still. We are always looking for new ways to shape the
future. Each story in this issue highlights examples of the current impact of the Bloch
School and some of our plans for the future: former Bloch students who are now successful
alumni making their mark; current Bloch students who are finding inspiration as they prepare
to make their mark; students yet to come and how Bloch is preparing today to educate
tomorrow’s business and community leaders; and community connection – building and
developing symbiotic relationships with the community. All are pieces of a big picture, and
that is the success of our school, our students and our city.
UMKC Mission, Values and Goals
Mission
Lead in the Life and Health Sciences
Deepen and Expand Strength in the Visual and Performing Arts
Develop a Professional Workforce; Collaborate in Urban
Issues and Education
Create a Vibrant Learning and Campus Life Experience
Values
Education First
Discovery and Innovation
Integrity and Accountability
Diversity, Inclusiveness and Respect
Energized Collaborative Communities
I hope you enjoy learning more about the Bloch School and discover innovative ways that
we can work together. I hope to hear from you personally and welcome your ideas.
Warmest regards,
O. Homer Erekson
Goals
We attract, nurture and develop responsible community leaders.
We are a leader in scholarship and creative activity.
We are an essential community partner and resource.
We are a workplace of choice.
We have the resources to achieve our strategic goals.
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Amazing
ALUMNI
Steve Bernstein
They were once Bloch
students with hopes,
goals and plans to
improve themselves, the
organizations and the
communities they serve.
Today, they are movers,
shakers and role models.
The alumni featured in
this story are just a few
examples of the great
leaders Bloch is proud to
call our own and prime
examples of individuals
who have shaped the
future of Kansas City
and beyond.
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Steve Bernstein:
Heading for Home
Steve Bernstein, senior vice president
and chief operating officer of BernsteinRein Advertising, has been awarded
the Alumni Spotlight Award for bringing
creativity and opportunity to UMKC and
Kansas City’s communities.
“We aren’t the guys who were born
on second base and believe they hit
a double,” Bernstein is fond of saying
about growing up in the shadow of
the largest ad agency in Kansas City
and the 36th-largest full-service ad
agency in the country. Bernstein-Rein
Advertising was co-founded by his
father, Bob Bernstein, in 1964.
“We know we were born on second
base, and we’re thankful for the
opportunities we have, but we realize
there are still two more bases to clear
before we score.” Bernstein literally
grew up in advertising, playing with
the copy machine in his dad’s office,
studying commercials during Super
Bowls, and serving, at the age of
10, as the inspiration behind one of
Bernstein-Rein’s marketing coups, the
McDonald’s Happy Meal.
In some ways, the family business
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was Bernstein’s destiny. “We were
never told, ‘You’ll be in the family
business,’” he says of himself, brother
David and sister Susan. “But we’re
such a close family that it became
natural for each one of us.”
Bernstein’s interests in law and
business led him to choose the Law
and Bloch schools at UMKC, where
he earned his JD and MBA in 1991.
He joined the family business in 1992.
However, Bernstein sees more in
his choice than fulfilling a prophecy.
He sees advertising as his legacy.
“We’re fortunate to be in a business
that produces the exact things
not-for-profits need—marketing
advice and direction,” he says. “As a
company, we try to give feedback to
the community that has been so great
to us. We want to do our parts as an
agency and a family to help Kansas
City be the best it can possibly be.”
Bernstein has offered his talents,
free of charge, to UMKC and the
community countless times, including
helping the University roll out a
new brand identity and marketing
campaign in 2005.
Today, Bernstein is busy as senior
vice president and chief operating
officer of the 300-plus-employee
agency, but he is as committed as ever
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to the future of Kansas City.
“Everything is spurred by ideas,”
he adds. “It’s important that Kansas
City is a place that can foster, nourish
and actually feed great ideas, culture
and business.” Bernstein may still
have things to do before he slides
into home, but it’s a safe bet he’ll take
Kansas City with him as he rounds
the bases.
The Bloch Family:
Kansas City’s Legacy
The Bloch family was recently honored
with the UMKC Alumni Legacy award
for the lasting impact they have left on
Kansas City and the world.
From the new H&R Block
headquarters downtown to the new
Bloch building at the Nelson-Atkins
Museum of Art, the Bloch family has
left a lasting legacy in Kansas City.
“My family has always cared a
great deal about Kansas City,” says
Tom Bloch, UMKC Trustee. “It’s
always been a priority to for us to give
back, to help make this a great city.”
The family has supported cancer
research, health services, the arts,
community development and
education, lending their time and
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support to the Leon E. Bloch Law
Library, the Bloch School, the Institute
of Urban Education at the School of
Education and the UMKC Trustees.
“Kansas City cannot be a great
city without a great urban university,”
adds Bloch.
All told, the Bloch family has put
in more than 100 years of service
and millions of dollars to help Kansas
City thrive. And for that reason,
they were awarded the 2006 Legacy
Award from UMKC. The award
recognizes families who have a record
of outstanding service to the University
and the community.
The legacy started with Leon
Bloch Sr., who was a 1902 graduate
of the University of Kansas City Law
School. He and his wife Hortense
instilled in their three sons, Leon Jr.,
Henry and Richard, a commitment
to community.
Henry and his wife Marion have
carried that sentiment to their own
family, encouraging their four children,
Robert, Tom, Mary Jo Browne and
Liz Uhlmann, to leave legacies of
their own.
“Our parents instilled in us the
importance of giving back,” says
Tom. “We all had great opportunities
in our life, and we owe a great debt
of gratitude to our parents and to
our community.”
Tom is forging his legacy through
education. In 1995, he resigned his
position as president and CEO of
H&R Block to teach, first at St.
Francis Xavier School and currently
at University Academy, a charter
school sponsored by UMKC that
he co-founded in 2000. He serves
with his sister Liz’s husband, Paul
Uhlmann, on the UMKC Board of
Trustees. “There’s that saying,” says
Tom, “that you should leave your
campsite better than you found it.
That’s the kind of philosophy my
parents reinforced.”
In honor of their mother, the
Bloch children recently dedicated
the Marion Helzberg Bloch Park and
Terrace, a landscaped garden and
meeting place for students, faculty
and staff on the south lawn of the
Bloch School.
“Giving back is such an important
part of life,” says Tom. “True happiness
comes from not just looking at yourself,
but in looking at how you can help
others.”
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Amazing AlUMNI
Melanie Tucker:
Beyond the Balance Sheet
Melanie Tucker, vice president of finance
for JE Dunn Construction, has taken a
knack for numbers and passion for people
and turned them into an inspiring story.
“There’s always a footprint left when
you build something,” says Melanie
Tucker, speaking of the physical
legacy she’ll help Kansas City’s JE
Dunn, the sixth-largest general
contractor in the United States,
leave behind.
With 10 years experience as a
manager and partner with CBIZ/
Mayer Hoffman McCann, Tucker
joined JE Dunn in January as vice
president of finance.
Tucker is not your stereotypical
finance professional. Consider her
success as a female executive in the
construction industry where women
make up just 2 percent of the industry’s
workforce, compared to 50 percent of
the workforce as a whole.
“Women are historically underrepresented in executive management
positions,” Tucker says. “I hope I can
serve as a role model for other women
in finance positions, as well as in the
construction industry.”
Tucker sees more than numbers on
a balance sheet, though. “Numbers
tell a story,” she says. “Accounting
and finance are really about the ability
to get information out of numbers
and data, to use that information to
make decisions and to educate people
about what the numbers say.”
Tucker doesn’t leave the story
strictly to the numbers, or the
footprints to JE Dunn. Pushing past
balance sheets and taxes, she’s building
a legacy of her own.
Her commitment to her community proves it. Tucker earned her
bachelor’s and master’s degrees from
the Bloch School at UMKC. She
graduated in 1990, but she never
continued
really left. She taught accounting
classes as an adjunct instructor. She
currently serves on the Division of
Accountancy Advisory Board and
the Bloch School Alumni Board.
Those connections to the Bloch
School have led to other civic opportunities. Through the Bloch Alumni
Board, Tucker met Tom Holcom, a
founding member of Angel Flight, a
nonprofit organization that arranges
free transportation for people who
need medical treatment.
Tucker also serves on the board of
Youth Volunteer Corps of America,
a national nonprofit that helps youth
volunteers find and conduct community service projects.
“I know I want to stay involved with
what’s going on in this community,”
Tucker says. “I’m fortunate to work
for a company that has recommitted
to being downtown by building its
new headquarters here.
“I’m in the right place to be a part
of Kansas City’s future, and I look
forward to it.”
Dick Gibson:
Leading by Example
Dick Gibson, vice president and chief
administrative officer at the Greater
Kansas City Chamber of Commerce, is a
role model in leadership and service. He
recently earned the Alumni Achievement
Award for his accomplishments and
service to the Bloch School.
Dick Gibson’s office at the Greater
Kansas City Chamber of Commerce
is part scrapbook, part resume.
His bookcase displays an assortment
of photographs—one of Bobby
Kennedy; a group shot of Presidents
Nixon, Bush, Reagan, Carter and
Ford; and another of Gibson shaking
hands with Colin Powell, one of his
former bosses. His desk holds Chinese
meditation balls, a portable punching
bag, a Dick Gibson bobble head and
numerous photographs of his three
grandchildren.
From music major to colonel to
chief administrative officer at the
Chamber, Gibson’s career, like his
office, is rich in diverse experiences
that have helped shape him into the
leader he is today.
Gibson graduated from UMKC’s
Conservatory of Music and Dance in
1967. Just as he was preparing for his
first New York audition, he received
his draft notice. He put music on
hold to enlist, and, in 1969, entered
Vietnam as a second lieutenant.
When he completed his tour a
year later, Gibson was offered the
rank of captain if he would stay one
more year. With the support of his
wife, Riue, Gibson accepted.
Gibson says he enjoyed military
life. “I always say that I stayed in the
army because I was the only one who
could count to four in time and sing
cadences in harmony,” he laughs.
His final military assignment was
as the chief of staff for the U.S. Army
Command and General Staff College.
Colonel Gibson retired from the army
in 1993 with a Purple Heart, Bronze
Star with “V” (valor) device and
Silver Star.
Gibson launched his second career
in corporate America as director of
administration at the Don Bosco
Community Centers in Kansas City
and in 1997 became vice president
and chief administrative officer at
the Chamber.
“I learned what I know about
business from the school of hard
knocks,” says Gibson of his military
experience. “I wanted to validate that
learning with a degree.” In 2000,
Gibson enrolled in the Bloch School’s
Executive MBA program on the G.I.
Bill.
“The Executive MBA provided an
opportunity to broaden my perspective,
network with other business
professionals and get more involved
in the community.”
Gibson took that network to heart.
After he graduated from the program
in 2002, he started an investment
club with fellow alumni, served on
the Don Bosco Social Enterprise
Board and was a key player in the
business plan EMBA students wrote
for the TAKE Foundation defense
training program for women.
One of Gibson’s greatest gifts to
the people and communities he works
with is that of example. Throughout
his service to the Chamber and the
community, Gibson has brought
lessons from his military career—the
necessity of making contingency
plans and leading by example.
“If I’m not putting in my best
effort, then I can hardly expect my
people to,” he says. “It’s that simple.”
Charlene Meeker:
Connecting People, Building
Communities
Charlene Meeker, public relations
consultant with MGA Communications in
Denver, proves passion, drive and courage
will take you places.
If you’ve read Malcolm Gladwell’s
Tipping Point, you’ll recognize
Charlene Meeker immediately. She’s
a “connector,” someone with a gift for
bringing different worlds together.
“I strongly believe in the significance
of relationships,” says Meeker. “I thrive
on being a catalyst for connecting
others with the people and resources
that help them accomplish their goals.”
Meeker earned her MPA at the
Bloch School’s Cookingham Institute
of Public Affairs in 2004, where she
found a passion for the world of
community development. “It was
my second semester, and I enrolled
in Dr. Robyne Turner’s introductory
urban development class,” remembers
Meeker. “After the first night of class,
I thought, ‘Community development
is where I want to devote my life.’”
Shortly after, she gathered new
skills, interning with the Mid-America
Regional Council (MARC), where
she did research, public relations and
also worked on the award-winning
First Suburbs Coalition Idea Book, a
Public-Private Sector Cooperation.
Each year since 1984, the program
has handpicked 30 community
leaders—10 each from the public,
private and nonprofit sectors—to
discuss Denver’s big issues and what
leadership should look like surrounding
those issues.
“As UMKC and Kansas City strive to reach their potential,
you always find Bloch School alumni making a difference.’’
remodeling guide for post–World War
II homes. But Meeker is one alumna
Kansas City will have to live without.
She took her affinity for
development west. “I became
intrigued with Denver,” Meeker
explains. “I liked where it was going,
and how progressively they
approached housing, transportation
and economic development.”
Eager to become part of the
exciting developments in Denver,
Meeker made a bold move there,
without a solid job prospect. For
months, Meeker searched for a way
to bring the worlds she’d inhabited
together. In 2005, she joined the Mile
High Housing Fund, a community
development financial institution.
They created a position for her as
director of public relations and
development, which married her
passions and introduced her to yet
another world: nonprofit management.
“I was impressed with her grasp of
the nuances of finance, the political
landscape, the relationships in the
community among different players,”
says Rodger Hara, vice president of
Capmark Finance, whom Meeker
met through the Fund. Hara was so
impressed, he nominated Meeker for
the Denver Community Leadership
Forum, a yearlong program run by the
University of Colorado’s Center for
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Meeker says that experience
monumentally changed her life.
And Meeker has used the opportune
connecting of worlds to help others.
The forum led to her current job with
MGA Communications where she
helps clients engage and improve the
communities they serve. Her work
with MARC has put her in touch
with a similar community revitalization
program in Denver, the Denver
Regional Council of Governments.
And recently, she brought her talents
to the board of Hope Communities,
a nonprofit community development
group that provides housing and
educational resources to help people
improve their lives.
“There’s a lot of serendipity in
my life,” Meeker admits. “People
are different, and we all approach
life uniquely. But I’m committed to
finding ways to improve the overall
quality of life for everyone.”
Meeker continues to work connections, taking every lesson she’s
learned, and every person she’s met,
with her.
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Learning by Doing
Sponsored by the Institute for
Entrepreneurship and Innovation
at UMKC, last year’s New Venture
Challenge Competition was the
climax to four months of business
planning by the Bloch School’s
Executive MBA and MBA students.
At the beginning of the winter
semester, students divided into 12
teams. Each team selected from 34
intellectual properties representing
Midwest Research Institute, Hallmark, Kansas University Medical
Center, sCOMM, Mobile Media
Technologies, LLC, BOC Group, Jay
Fine and Brown Medical Industries.
Business + Technology + Education =
Enterprise Development
Laboratory
Jason Curry and his family took the UbiDuo from a brainstorm
to a business using the many resources available through the
Bloch School’s Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.
The student teams assessed their
choice for potential risks, conducted
market opportunity analysis and sales
strategies, examined financial models,
designed a business concept plan
and presented that plan to a panel of
judges at the final competition.
“The goal of the competition,” says
Michael Song, executive director of
the Institute, “is to provide students
with experiential learning opportunities that help them apply their new
knowledge about business plans,
market and industry data and the
commercial potential of intellectual
property.”
Last year, several student teams
attracted interest from serious
investors for their companies’
products or services.
Experimental Business
The annual New Venture
Challenge Competition is just one
outgrowth of the Institute’s larger
efforts to bridge business, technology
and education. The competition joins
the Institute’s Entrepreneurship and
Innovation Boot Camp, Executives
in Residence and student business
incubator to form the Enterprise
Development Laboratory (ED Lab).
“The ED Lab for the Bloch School
is much like a chemistry lab for a
chemistry course,” explains Larry Lee,
director of the Enterprise Development
Lab. “For us, though, looking under
a microscope isn’t enough. To
understand a business, you have to
run a business.”
Integrated with and an extension
of the entrepreneurship curriculum,
the ED Lab gives students hands-on,
real-time experience with the tasks,
tools and frustration that come from
turning ideas into market-ready
businesses.
Ideas come from University of
Missouri research centers, Kansas
City research organizations, local
corporations or the students
themselves. The Entrepreneurship
and Innovation Boot Camp, for
example, is a four-week competition
that allows students to test the
viability of their business ideas.
After those innovations are vetted
by Institute faculty and advisers,
student teams begin to develop business
concepts. Experts-in-residence, a pool
of about 160 attorneys, bankers, angel
investors, engineers—“people who fit
almost every need,” says Lee—mentor
students throughout the process.
Students, advisers and investors
evaluate the final business concepts.
“When those concepts come
out of the hopper, there are three
options,” says Lee. “If it’s not a viable
business, it may stop right there. Or
the concept could turn into an actual
start-up, ready to go out on the street.
Or, if it needs a little nurturing and
support, the concept could move to
the student business incubator.”
The incubator helps students
jump-start their businesses by
providing them with the physical (continued)
Entrepreneurship
The product is greater than the
sum of its parts at the Enterprise
Development Lab, which trains and
launches entrepreneurial talent into
Kansas City and the world.
On April 22, 2006, the Ewing
Marion Kauffman Foundation
conference room was filled with 55
graduate students from the Bloch
School, 40 judges from Kansas City’s
leading corporations, banks and nonprofit business development organizations and 12 intellectual properties.
For eight hours, the conference
room transformed into a working
laboratory for enterprise development
and hosted the second annual New
Venture Challenge Competition
—bursting with innovative ideas
from singing greeting cards to male
contraceptives.
Jason Curry | From Competition to Conveyor Belt
Jason Curry is deaf. Throughout most of
his life, any conversation—with employers,
doctors, family—has been slow and
frustrating at best. Five years ago, while
Curry was having breakfast with his father,
David, they both reached a breaking point.
Then David had an idea. When they got
home, he sketched what would become
the UbiDuo.
The UbiDuo is a portable device that
allows the deaf to communicate with the
hearing. Composed of two keyboards with
imbedded screens, the UbiDuo is as easy
to use as a simultaneous chat screen. But
unlike instant messaging, the conversation is
immediate: messages can be read as they’re
typed and thoughts can be interjected. With
the UbiDuo, the deaf could communicate with
anyone without an interpreter.
Curry and his father formed sComm, Inc.,
and with the help of Boys Town National
Research Hospital in Omaha, Neb., further
developed the concept behind the UbiDuo.
With a solid concept, they needed funding.
Enter the Small Business and Technology
Development Center and Enterprise
Development Laboratory at the Institute.
Curry was able to apply for and win an
SBIR grant from the National Institutes of
Health. The first phase gave him $100,000
for testing.
Before he could receive the second
phase, $1.3 million, however, he needed a
prototype and a business plan. Larry Lee,
director of the Enterprise Development Lab,
guided Curry through incorporation, how to
set up bookkeeping and find an accountant,
how to write a business plan and put him in
touch with a partner, Pivot International in
Lenexa, Kan., to build the prototype.
This past January, sComm shipped
out its first batch of UbiDuos. “With this
product, people like me can have face-toface conversations with their doctors, their
bosses—their families, without scraps of
paper or interpreters. For many of them, it
will be a first,” says Curry.
Thanks to the Curry’s entrepreneurial
spirit and the Institute’s resources, a new
business has blossomed that will open the
doors of communication for more than 27
million Americans.
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space, office equipment and mentoring
they need to get their businesses
off the ground. The Institute is also
working on creating a Seed Venture
Capital Fund that will give students
access to capital “when they need it
the most, at the very beginning,”
says Lee.
Growing Ideas, Growing
Businesses
“Our goal,” says Lee, “is to give
students more than a diploma. It’s one
thing to start a business in your mind
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or on paper. It’s quite another to have
real people working for you, bills that
have to be paid and the menagerie
of things that have to be done in a
business. You learn how to prioritize or
how to let go. You learn about yourself.”
And the seeds those students plant
ultimately feed the community
with new businesses and a new
understanding of entrepreneurship.
To create a lasting view of enterprise
development, Institute faculty are
conducting longitudinal studies on
the businesses that leave the lab,
helping enrich the research on
entrepreneurship and high-growth
ventures for Kansas City and the
world business community.
“That speaks to our sustainability
and impact,” says Song. “Imagine,
year after year, 30 teams of future
entrepreneurs in a city looking for
business ideas, developing business
models, creating new companies.
Every single year. Just imagine
the possibilities.”
Minding Business
PhD in Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Why do businesses fail? Better yet,
how do they succeed?
These questions form the
foundation of entrepreneurial
research. According to the Kauffman
Index of Entrepreneurial Activity,
activity in the past few years has
climbed to levels that surpass the
late 1990’s Internet boom.
Fertile Ground
Growing Reputations
It’s a field with great demand yet
scant supply. Although there has been
explosive growth in the number of
endowed chairs in entrepreneurship
—about 71 percent from 1999 to
2003, as reported by the Kauffman
2004 U.S. Survey of Endowed
Positions in Entrepreneurship and
Related Fields—there are few
qualified candidates to fill those
university positions. In 2004, close to
20 percent of those endowed chairs
went unfilled.
UMKC is one of just a few
universities in the country to offer
a doctorate program and training in
entrepreneurship.
“Our aim is to make the Institute
the recruiting ground for future top
quality faculty,” says Michael Song,
the Institute’s executive director and
Charles N. Kimball, MRI/Missouri
Endowed Chair in Management of
Technology and Innovation. “That
reputation will then help us attract
expert faculty and develop world-class
research—and that will put the
University as a whole on the national
map.”
Already, the Institute claims two
top-ranking scholars in innovation
management. The Journal of Product
Innovation Management ranked Song
as the world’s top scholar and Mark
Parry, the Ewing M. Kauffman/
Missouri Endowed Chair in Entrepreneurial Leadership, as 13th.
“The Institute is a leverage point
for the Bloch School. And the PhD
program is a great way to attract new
and seasoned scholars to UMKC,”
says Song.
“It’s a simple equation. Anyone
who’s created a company knows this:
good people build strong businesses,”
he add. “And building an institute
is no different from building a
high-growth company.”
When Jeremy Hegle (MBA ’03)
interviewed for the position of network integrator at KCSourceLink in
July 2003, the organization claimed
just three employees, a three-year
business plan and a classroom on the
second floor of the 4747 Troost
building in Kansas City, Mo. “We
didn’t even have a phone,” Hegle
recalls.
“We started out as a way to help
small businesses find the resources
they needed to grow,” Hegle says, “But
we had very little. We had to develop
the infrastructure, do the marketing,
branding, all of it.”
Today, KCSourceLink still works
with a tight crew, but it has increased
its footprint well beyond its modest
schoolroom beginnings. Since 2003,
KCSourceLink has connected a
network of 140 plus resource partners
to more than 2,400 aspiring and
existing small business owners in the
18-county Kansas City region via
telephone hotline or e-mail. More
than 5,600 searches have been made
within the 25 service categories with
SourceLink’s online database, the
Resource Navigator.
In fact, KCSourceLink has been
entrepreneurial about being entrepreneurial.
“We’ve traveled the same road
that we’ve guided other businesses
through,” says Maria Meyers, KCSourceLink director. “We’ve basically
created an intellectual property that
is owned by the University and we
license out.”
In 2005, KCSourceLink expanded
under the brand of U.S.SourceLink,
where it has zigzagged its Web tools
from north to south, linking entrepreneurs with small business services
in Wisconsin, Ohio, Kansas, North
Carolina, Georgia and Florida. Some
cities are using the model specifically to
help grow minority-owned businesses.
“The unique thing about SourceLink
is that it networks together the resource
partners that support small business
development,” says Meyers. “The
original plan was to work through
people—to educate network partners
about each other so they could make
better referrals.
“And that’s how a true network is
built,” adds Meyers. “It’s all about
the people.”
To learn more about KCSourceLink,
visit kcsourcelink.com.
It’s in the Bag
Handbag and Fashion Icons Andy and Kate Spade Named International Entrepreneurs of the Year
The UMKC Bloch School and
the Council for Entrepreneurship and
Innovation are proud to sponsor the
22nd Annual Entrepreneur of the
Year Awards Dinner, celebrating the
essence of entrepreneurial spirit and
creativity. This event is a benefit for
the Institute for Entrepreneurship and
Innovation at the Bloch School.
Monday, Oct. 8, 2007,
6 p.m. Reception, 7 p.m. Dinner
The Westin Crown Center
Kansas City, Mo.
HONOREES:
Andy and Kate Spade
kate spade
International Entrepreneurs of the Year
L. William Zahner
A. Zahner Company
Regional Entrepreneur of the Year
Kate Spade
Andy Spade
The Byron G. Thompson Family
Marion and John Kreamer Award
for Entrepreneurship in Volunteer Community Service
To purchase tickets or for more information,
go to www.bloch.umkc.edu/eoy
or call 816-235-2370.
Save the Date
This fall, the Institute for
Entrepreneurship and Innovation at
the Bloch School is launching the
PhD program in Entrepreneurship
and Innovation. The four-year,
interdisciplinary program will create
the next generation of leading-edge
researchers and teachers of entrepreneurship. For doctoral students
from other disciplines, the Institute
provides a co-discipline and a minor
so that students can add an entrepreneurial focus to their studies.
Set within the urban laboratory of
Kansas City, the program draws on a
wealth of strategic resources, including
the Midwest Research Institute, the
Stowers Institute for Medical
Research, the Kansas City Area Life
Sciences Institute and the Ewing
Marion Kauffman Foundation, the
most influential entrepreneurship
foundation in the world.
The program will grow in fertile
entrepreneurial ground, especially
rich for assessing the value, risks and
market opportunities of emerging
technologies and businesses.
The PhD program, along with the
Institute’s Enterprise Development
Laboratory and New Venture
Challenge Competition, will nourish
and inform local business. Throughout
their studies, and as part of the degree
requirements, doctoral students
will submit their research to national
conferences and top-referred
academic journals.
The program grooms students to
become participants in their field,
ready to shape the study of entrepreneurship.
From K.C. to U.S.: SourceLink Model Continues to Spread
photos by Noe Dewitt
Enterprise Development Laboratory
Bloch Magazine 2007
From Passion to Plan
From August 2006 to January
2007, Ianelli and 16 other Executive
MBA alumni met monthly to review
TAKE Foundation’s existing business
plan, map strategies and venues to
expand the foundation’s scope, and
propose a plan to strengthen the
program regionally and nationally.
“Our task was to figure out where
they could raise funds, how much
they needed, next priorities, and what
their future path should look like,”
says Dev Malik (EMBA ’06), COO
for Kansas City’s BNIM Architects.
Unlike Ianelli, Malik has two sons,
but was still impressed with the
necessity of the foundation’s mission
and the Kemps’ ability to “find a way
to give hope to the world” in the face
of personal tragedy.
The Executive MBA team met
with Roger Kemp and the TAKE
board. After listening to the board’s
issues and concerns, the team split
“This was an opportunity to work with an organization
that is obviously doing good work.”
– Mike Ianelli, EMBA ’O6
A Class Act
Executive MBA students use their skills and education to
aid an inspirational community foundation
A woman, one of hundreds participating in TAKE Defense Training,
practices the self protection moves she has just learned in class.
people in Kansas City know about,”
says Ianelli. “Since I finished my
Executive MBA, I’ve wanted to be
more involved.”
Roger and Kathy Kemp started
TAKE Foundation in 2002 in
memory of their daughter, Ali, who
was murdered in June of that year. To
date, the nonprofit foundation has
trained more than 8,000 girls and
women with its two-hour self-defense
classes. But Roger Kemp and TAKE
lead trainer Jill Leikhart, a sixth-degree black belt who was twice named
Karate Woman of the Year, wanted
to broaden the program’s reach to
“change behaviors” on a larger scale.
“We want to make people
understand that what happened to
Ali can happen to them or to someone
they love,” says Leikhart. “But we
also want to prove to young girls and
women that they can do something
about it.”
into four groups that covered TAKE’s
markets: schools, corporations,
community organizations and video.
They ran competitive analysis. They
researched market impact. And they
looked for ways to grow the program
without losing its passion or sense of
community.
The team then built a business
plan, which recommended TAKE
Foundation focus their personalized
training on high school girls, with
college women and elementary school
girls serving as expansion markets.
“We’re appreciative that these
alumni took time to help us with the
business plan,” says Roger Kemp. “We
value what they’ve done.”
Emba
Last August, an e-mail request was
sent to Executive MBA alumni: The
Ali Kemp Educational Foundation
(TAKE) was looking for ways to get
its safety awareness and self-defense
training program to a national level,
and they needed a business plan.
“Within 90 minutes we had 17
alumni signed up to help,” says Karyl
Leggio, associate dean for academic
programs.
Mike Ianelli (EMBA ’06), west
region sales manager with the Linde
Group out of San Francisco, was one
of them.
“This was an opportunity to work
with an organization that is obviously
doing good work,” says Ianelli, who
holds a second-degree black belt and
is father to two young girls. For him,
getting involved was about being a
part of the community, empowering
his daughters and spreading a positive
message.
“Ali’s story is something most
nonprofit leadership.
“I’ve always worked in for-profits,”
says Lolli. “The Executive MBA
really opened my mind up to the fact
that there’s more than going to work
from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. A lot happens
in the nonprofit sector that can change
how we live today, and I want to be
part of that.”
Lolli and her colleagues cite the
Public Sector of Business class as
the source of their revelation. The
class, taught by Gary Baker, PhD,
public administration lecturer at
Bloch, helps students understand how
important the interface between for
profit, nonprofit and government is
to their careers by putting them in
the dialogue.
“The Bloch School is one of only
seven business schools that houses
business, public administration,
accountancy and a PhD program
under one roof,” says Baker. “We are
in a unique position to teach these
lessons with the faculty talent and
perspectives of this school.”
Students finish Baker’s course
with a Washington residency that
Baker says “exposes them to new
ways of thinking” about how they can
contribute to that dialogue and how
critical that conversation is to their
business success.
“My hope is that, like the students
who took time and effort outside
the classroom to work with TAKE
Foundation, all of our Executive
MBA students leave the program
to become better civic leaders,”
says Baker.
“The Executive MBA program and
my experience with TAKE gave me
the sense I could do anything I put
my mind to,” says Malik. “Because
the program is so demanding, it
requires you to reach a little deeper,
push a little harder—and then you
realize what really is possible.”
Leading with Balance
For Ianelli, Malik and Kelly Lolli,
senior strategist with Cerner’s
government relations team, working
with TAKE Foundation was a
significant foray into the world of
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Bloch Executive MBA Builds Leaders in
Business and Community
Talking Shop
Spotlight: UMB Financial Corporation and Michele Brinker
Jerry Hannah and Michele Brinker
Today’s businesses can’t afford not
to take a proactive role in developing
leaders who will shape the future of
the organization.
UMB Financial Corporation, one
of the largest independent banks in
the United States, is one of those
businesses.
“At UMB, we identify a talent
pool of employees we think have
strong leadership potential and we
do ongoing development to prepare
them for a place on our management committee,” says Jerry Hannah,
senior vice president of management
effectiveness.
Michele Brinker, UMB’s chief risk
officer, was an ideal candidate.
Brinker earned her master’s degree
in accounting from the Bloch School
in 1997 and, making use of Bloch’s
close proximity and connection to
Kansas City, Brinker got a job with
PricewaterhouseCoopers as a financial
statement auditor. In 2003, having
gained solid work experience, Brinker
took a job at UMB as the director of
internal auditing.
A year later, Brinker was
promoted to chief risk officer, managing the departments of compliance,
internal audit, enterprise risk management and fraud investigations.
“It was a big change,” Brinker says.
“I found myself with much broader
responsibility and more people to
manage.”
But UMB leaders like Hannah
thought Brinker was up to the task.
She was selected from among several
candidates by the UMB executive
team for sponsorship in the Bloch
Executive MBA program.
Hannah says UMB was impressed
with everything they had learned
about the Bloch Executive MBA and
offered Brinker the opportunity to
enroll in the program.
“It was quite a surprise because I
hadn’t even thought about getting
my MBA, and I wasn’t sure what to
expect,” Brinker says. “But I was very
flattered they were willing to make
such an investment in me.”
It was the right move.
“At UMB, my role is different
than past jobs. Every day something
new comes along for me to think
about. I have to influence and lead
people to a solution. The Bloch
Executive MBA gave me an education
in leadership – it taught me how to
think more strategically.”
Hannah says he can see the
benefits of Brinker’s education as well.
“Michele has a broader perspective on
the business world, from marketing to
financial analysis. She has new insight
into her role as a senior manager,
greater understanding about how to
manage a workforce and the ability to
develop vision and goals.”
A strong advocate of leadership in
the community as well, Brinker has
been a volunteer with the Metropolitan
Organization to Counter Sexual
Assault (MOCSA) for several years.
She says the Bloch Executive
MBA was just as valuable to her civic
work. “The residency we did in
Washington, D.C., was especially
influential,” she recalls. “It made me
think a lot more about the relationship
between business and community,
and how much the two need each
other. It’s something I think leaders
in general need to think about.”
In the office or out, Brinker says
the most important thing to her is the
impact she has on those around her.
“I want to make difference, both at
work and in the community,” she says.
“UMB is one of many corporate
sponsors in the Kansas City area to
take advantage of the Bloch Executive
MBA program,” says Beverly Stewart,
program director. “The program gives
employers seeking to build leadership
within their companies a training
ground for future leaders. It also
provides ambitious executive-level
professionals with the opportunity to
broaden their understanding and take
their career to the next level.”
To learn more about the Bloch
Executive MBA, visit
bloch.umkc.edu/emba.
Karyl Leggio, associate dean for academic programs
What has shaped the changes Bloch
is making?
KL We’re paying attention to what
the market is saying. With the
Executive MBA and the undergraduate
changes, we asked all the constituents
what they were looking for in our
students and then we developed
programs around those market
demands. And we have to stay fluid,
continuing to respond to the market.
Karyl Leggio
Karyl Leggio talks fast. Every
word about her work at the Bloch
School—her research, teaching
and leadership—is flush with an
undeniable vigor.
Recently appointed associate dean
for academic programs, Leggio leads
the efforts to keep the Bloch School’s
programs responsive and relevant.
Below, she talks about what those
changes mean and what the world
can expect from Bloch students in
the years to come.
There have been a lot of changes at the Bloch
School in the past six years—a new Executive
MBA program, a new undergraduate program.
Why now?
Karyl Leggio The business world
has changed. We’ve moved from a
manufacturing economy to a service
economy to a network economy. As
we’ve made that shift, the way we
conduct business has changed and
the expectations for employees has
changed, too.
We try to teach students to adapt
to a constantly shifting business
world. Our students learn there is
no one way anymore. At the Bloch
School we’re pushing decision making
and understanding of complex business
environments through our programs,
even at the undergraduate level.
What kind of response have you gotten on
the revamped Bloch Executive MBA program,
which has been in place for two years now?
KL The statistics from the graduates
of the Executive MBA program tell
the story: their salaries are higher
and two-thirds of them are promoted
within a year of graduation. We also
have more than 150 companies
and organizations in Kansas City
sponsoring employees in the program
– that tells us the community feels like
this program is worth the investment.
In fact, I talked with a magazine
asking us to sit on a panel with Penn
State, potentially Harvard, and the
Ross School at Michigan about what
we’re doing with the Executive MBA
program. People are noticing we’re
doing cool things with this program.
Why is it important for a business school to be
connected to the community?
KL One of our most important jobs
is to be a resource to area businesses.
Our new undergraduate curriculum
will move miles in terms of what
we’re doing for area employers to
strengthen their work force. Our
executive education classes provide
their employees with opportunities
to share their experiences in class.
And we are developing new ways to
connect our faculty expertise and
research with professionals who can
benefit from it.
How does the Bloch School balance
that need to serve the community and
to lead it?
KL We lead with our research, and
academic research leads practice by a
number of years. Entrepreneurship, for
example, is a new field and there’s a
shortage in faculty and a demand
for research. Not only are we saying
we’re going to help your business be
successful in Kansas City, but we’re
going to help other businesses in other
parts of the world be successful by
training their faculty.
What are Bloch’s immediate objectives?
KL We are focused on increasing
the rankings for our undergraduate
program and getting the Executive
MBA program ranked among the top
in the nation. The vision is to continue
to provide quality education and a
caliber of graduate that the business
community needs. We want to improve
what we’re doing. We want to get
better, be more creative, be more
innovative and develop programs that
foster the skills that are in demand in
this part of the world.
What are Bloch’s hurdles – what still needs to
be done?
KL One of the areas I’m most excited
about is our executive education. We
have a lot of people who earned their
MBAs 10 or 15 years ago and need a
refresher. We can customize classes for
companies or we can develop a series
around a topic of their choice such as
organizational influence. I think that’s
going be a real growth vehicle for us
in the next five years. It’s also time to
revise the MBA program.
“And when that’s finished, it will
be time to re-examine the Executive
MBA again. This is not a static environment. Things are going to continue
to evolve. It’s a continuous process.
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Savvier Sooner:
The Changing Needs of Undergraduate Education
A Head for Business
“We’re thinking differently about
undergraduate education,” says
Leggio. “We have to. Business has
changed, and universities have to be
responsive to that.”
The Bloch School started by
surveying its ripples of impact and
influence—from current students
to alumni to Kansas City business
leaders to the global business
community—to find out what skills
business leaders will need in the next
five years. Those answers led to big
changes and a new perspective on
undergraduate education.
Students can now choose from five
emphasis areas. In addition to the
traditional offerings in accounting
and finance, students can specialize in
marketing, enterprise management or
entrepreneurship.
The fresh perspective is carried
into the classroom, where professors
look beyond the walls of their own
courses to complement, apply and
augment what students have learned
in previous classes. That integrated
core curriculum makes sure each
course fits with and flows into the
others. Courses now also integrate
understanding in areas such as ethics,
global business and leadership.
The results are crucial, says Leggio.
“Students won’t just be memorizing
facts for a test; they’ll learn to apply.
For example, they may be called to
apply skills learned in finance to
make smart decisions in a strategic
management course.”
A Change of Course
That applied learning follows them
through all their business courses and
into the world. In fact, Bloch undergraduate students begin building their
resume before they even walk into
their first information systems course.
Each student completes Microsoft®
certification to ensure they have
the software expertise in Excel and
PowerPoint to be successful in their
business courses and more attractive
to employers.
In the classroom, undergraduate
courses follow what has traditionally
been an MBA model, employing
case studies to help them think
through and solve practical business
challenges. Executive guest speakers,
teamwork and global perspectives are
woven into every course. Outside the
classroom, students are encouraged to
intern and study abroad.
Finally, in their senior-level
capstone experience, students work
in the Enterprise Development
Laboratory, pulling everything they’ve
learned into an actual business plan
for a Kansas City technology or
company.
Live cases, guest speakers,
teamwork, global applications, internships and enterprise development—
together, these add up to real-world
opportunities to learn from and take
part in complex, everyday decision
making. And that means students will
carry practical experience, a tested
business vocabulary and knowledge
of current trends and issues out of
the classroom and into their jobs.
It’s a handy set of tools that will
help them be effective contributors
in the business world with their very
first steps.
undergraduate business
Members of Team Quick Bar, the first-place winning team in the
2007 Entrepreneurship Boot Camp, enjoy reading the judges’
comments on their product idea to use a wireless network for
dispensing restaurant beverages.
It wears a suit. Or jeans. Or even
pajamas. It’s equipped with a mini
multiplex—PDAs, cell phones,
laptops, iPods—and an impressive
assortment of nouns-made-verbs. It
blogs, maybe even vlogs, podcasts,
networks, phishes. It’s not penned
in by walls or tied down by wires. It’s
fluid and often virtual.
It is the new business world. And
despite the fact that they share a
common vocabulary—and maybe
the same closet—many of today’s
undergraduate business students
aren’t ready for it.
As the face of the MBA student
changes (it’s a lot younger these days),
so do the success skills needed by the
undergraduate business student.
The Bloch School’s new undergraduate program is anything but
business as usual, giving students a
higher level of skills than ever before.
“It used to be that a 22-year-old
right out of school would be told what
to do by their employers,” says Karyl
Leggio, the Bloch School’s associate
dean for academic programs. “That’s
just not the case anymore. Instead,
they’re told to solve a problem or
work on an issue. They have to know
how to get started, and they have to
have initiative to follow through.”
The Bloch School’s newly
revamped undergraduate curriculum
helps today’s business students better
meet tomorrow’s business challenges.
Grounded in leading-edge research
and driven by the needs of the
local, national and global business
community, the program develops
business acumen and strategic
thinking, sharpens communication
skills and gives students hearty,
resume-building experience.
Talking the Talk
But business skills alone don’t
make successful employees. In a
recent survey of area business leaders,
the Bloch School discovered that
business leaders were looking for
breadth of professionalism as much
as, if not more than, depth of business
acumen.
“They kept telling us, ‘I can teach
them net present value, but I can’t
teach them how to effectively make
their point, how to be persuasive,
eloquent and appropriate in their
discussions with business colleagues,’”
recalls Leggio.
That call for professionalism has
led to the Bloch School’s new
Communications Center. The
center will house two classes focusing
on building business-specific
communication skills students will
practice and polish throughout their
undergraduate program. Students will
learn to write effective e-mails and
business memos, discover how to craft
compelling presentations, find out
how to present themselves properly at
a business lunch, how to analyze the
Wall Street Journal and how to dress
appropriately for the competitive
business environment they will join
upon graduation.
“In today’s society, we have a
different way of socializing,” Leggio
says. “We don’t interact physically
as much as we used to. Most of our
students will engage in virtual
communications and many will work
for virtual companies. We want to make
sure our students are prepared to
succeed in any business environment.”
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BLOCH
Students By Day…
They are Bloch students studying finance and
management, entrepreneurship and public affairs.
But when the books are closed, many of them prove
Bloch students are more than they seem to be.
The BlochCast Connection
New Bloch podcasts connect students with news they can use
Griffen Alexander
Hometown: Plattsmouth, Neb.
By day: Sophomore, studying business administration (BBA)
On the outside: This guy rocks. Griffen Alexander spends most of his
time outside the classroom working on his music. From the time he
was 11 years old, Alexander knew he was born to hold a guitar. He’s
rocked in bands and found influence in other musicians like John
Mayer. He began writing his own songs and last May, he signed a
record contract with Red Night Records and released his first CD in
November.
Defining moment: “I was 17 and I’d been playing shows in Omaha for
about five months. At one show at a small coffee shop, I sat in the
corner with my guitar and people just started packing in until they
couldn’t even sit and no more could get in. When I started playing,
everyone knew the words to my songs. People I had never seen
before were drinking in everything I did. And right then I knew
this was going to happen.”
Jeff McCaffrey
Undergraduate business students David Derendinger and Daniel Allegri hang out in the Podcast Studio at the Bloch School where new episodes of BlochCast
are recorded.
Podcast: Sci-fi alien life form or
innovative communication vehicle?
If you guessed the latter, you’ve been
keeping up with technology. Podcasts
are an easy way to provide recorded
information to almost anyone,
anywhere, at any time.
Thanks to undergraduate business
students David Derendinger and Daniel
Allegri, the Bloch School is taking
advantage of podcast technology in
what has been christened “BlochCast,”
podcasting by Bloch students, for
Bloch students.
BlochCast, mp3-format audio files
anyone with mp3 playing ability
can listen to, are published weekly.
Listeners can subscribe to the
program so they receive all published
episodes automatically, or they can
just visit the Web site and listen to
select episodes.
“We started the BlochCast as
part of a class project in Dr. Sidne
Ward’s Introduction to Management
Information Systems class,” Allegri
explains. “It’s a great way to make
information accessible to people at
their convenience. It’s like having
a radio or news station at your
command.” Currently, BlochCast
recordings include things like news,
information and internship opportunities, but Derendinger and Allegri
say they hope to broaden the scope to
include interviews with business and
civic professionals in Kansas City, as
well as student testimonials.
“We’d like to get interviews with
local professionals who can offer tips
about what employers are looking
for and other real-world information
Bloch students can use,” Derendinger
says. “We’d also like to eventually
let students offer their insights about
their Bloch School experience – likes,
dislikes and tips for success.”
“There aren’t a lot of business
schools podcasting yet,” says Sidne
Ward, PhD, associate professor of
management information systems.
Among those that are using podcasts
to reach their technology-savvy
students are Harvard, Wharton,
Pepperdine, Tuck and Darden.
“I teach students in my classes that
in order to reach the most people, you
need integrated communications and
multiple media,” Ward says. “Many
students are already comfortable using
new technology such as podcasting
to receive information. BlochCast is
another way to reach these students
– and we’re empowering the students
themselves to develop and deliver
the message.”
BlochCast can be accessed at
http://bis.bsbpa.umkc.edu/student/
blochcast.
When not studying, Griffen Alexander spends his time writing
and recording.
Hometown: Kansas City, Mo.
By day: Senior, studying business administration
On the outside: After a paralyzing car accident in 2002 abruptly ended
his plans of being a cadet and football player at the U.S. Air Force
Academy, Jeff McCaffrey found himself faced with a whole different
life. So he decided to use it to potentially improve the lives of many,
devoting himself heart and soul to advocating stem cell research.
He has worked with groups like the Missouri Coalition for Lifesaving
Cures, garnering support for the stem cell initiative, preventing
hostile legislation, submitting for a ballot issue and speaking to
numerous groups from chambers and boards to Bible studies. At
UMKC, McCaffrey started a chapter of Student Society for Stem
Cell Research. “The promise of stem cell research and its potential
application gives me hope,” McCaffery says. “One day there will be a
treatment available to restore motor function, and I will walk again.”
Dream job: “There are different ways to advance life sciences research.
Jeff McCaffrey sits on a wall between the Stowers Institute
and UMKC, his wheelchair momentarily forgotten. He hopes
progress in the area of stem cell research will someday allow
him to fold up his chair for good.
Mine is through business. I really do see Kansas City becoming a
Mecca of life science, and I love the fact I am able to partake in that.
I look forward to contributing to that dream and vision.”
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In today’s downsized corporate
environment, where there often aren’t
enough hours (or people) to get it all
done, employers are guarding their
employees’ time more jealously than
ever. And yet major corporations like
Sprint and Hallmark are encouraging
those same employees to spend time
learning about and joining nonprofit
boards in the community.
Why?
David Renz, PhD, director of the
Bloch School’s Midwest Center for
Nonprofit Leadership, says nonprofit
board involvement is a trend once
again on the rise.
“Corporations get several layers of
return when employees get involved
on boards,” Renz says. Those returns
include positive perception in the
community, leadership training and
skills, networking and a point of pride
for the employee.
“I’ve heard employees who have
been given the chance to serve on
nonprofit boards say they are proud
to be part of a company that values
such things,” Renz says. “It enriches
their job in a way that helps them
feel more allegiance to the company.
They’re part of something bigger
that supports their noncommercial
interests and aspirations.”
At companies like Hallmark, in
which giving back to the community
is a major component of company
culture, employees are encouraged
and prepared to volunteer.
Susie Haake, employee volunteer
program manager at Hallmark, has
been using the Midwest Center’s
How to Become a Nonprofit Board
Member class for years to help
educate employees who are ready and
interested in getting involved on a
board, but want to learn more.
The class, a two-hour lunchand-learn offered once per year, is a
general overview of nonprofit board
service and the basic responsibilities.
“We definitely want to encourage
people to become active in community
boards, but we want them to
understand that there are practical,
ethical and moral responsibilities in
assuming a board role,” Renz says.
Class topics include an overview
of the legal responsibilities that go
with board membership as well as self-
David Renz and his team at the Midwest Center
for Nonprofit Leadership help businesses and their
employees profit from
nonprofit involvement.
David Renz, PhD, Midwest Center for Nonprofit Leadership
assessment tools to help individuals
find out if board membership is right
for them, and if so, what kind of
board they can bring the most to.
Renz uses real life examples of boards
that have excelled, as well as those
that have failed, and examines why.
“When a board fails to serve
effectively and an organization dies
because of it, a critical resource for
people in the community disappears,
and this can be devastating for those
groups in need.”
Haake says there is big value in
employee involvement on nonprofit
boards. “Not only can employees take
the skills learned on the job to their
respective boards, they typically bring
skills learned on a board back to their
jobs,” she says. “On any given board,
you might have someone in heating
and cooling sitting next to someone
in marketing. We encourage that
kind of networking.”
workshop, Renz says, is for those
serving in leadership roles on boards
(like chairs), and it focuses on how
to effectively lead the board to work
better as a team.
Renz has also been talking recently
with two other major Kansas City
companies about developing similar
programs for their employees.
For the nonprofit organizations
themselves, Renz gives this advice:
“What’s different now about nonprofit
involvement with for-profit companies
is the way people and companies
get involved,” he emphasizes. “Time
is limited – people don’t want an
in-depth, permanent assignment
that doesn’t have clear value. It’s
incumbent upon nonprofits to make
the case for why people should get
involved. That means being able to
clearly answer questions such as ‘how
will my involvement make things
better?’ and ‘how can I measure if I’m
leadership
The Boardroom Awaits
“I’ve heard employees who have been given the chance
to serve on nonprofit boards say they are proud to be
part of a company that values such things.”
– David Renz, director, Midwest Center for Nonprofit Leadership
But Hallmark isn’t the only Kansas
City company jumping on board
with nonprofits.
Renz and the Midwest Center
team have also worked extensively
with Sprint.
“When Gary Forsee took over
the leadership at Sprint,” Renz says,
“he made a commitment that Sprint
would be a sensitive and active player
in the community, looking more closely
at how up-and-coming Sprint leaders
and top execs should be contributing
to the community through volunteer
service, including boards.”
Unlike the overview class at
Hallmark, the classes at Sprint have
been for people who are already
committed to be members of the board.
“We created a two-layer program
at Sprint,” Renz says. “There’s a basic
board performance workshop covering
board effectiveness, the job of the
board and understanding legal
fiduciary accountability.”
The second board leadership
making a difference?’”
If nonprofits want strong
volunteers, Renz concludes, they
must be effective in creating
opportunities employees can afford.
The Midwest Center for Nonprofit
Leadership takes research and theory
at Bloch and applies them so practitioners can put this knowledge to
work. The mission of the Center is to
build effectiveness of the nonprofit
community through strong nonprofit
board leadership. The Center does
this through credit and noncredit
programs designed to build leadership
and management in the nonprofit
sector.
For information about upcoming
workshops and programs, visit
www.mcnl.org.
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Pizza, Panels and Public Affairs
Funkhouser Wins!
Mark Funkhouser
Public Affairs student Mark
Funkhouser (IPhD ’00) was named
mayor of Kansas City in April 2007.
“As mayor, Mark will continue his
social worker tradition by working
to provide for the basic needs of his
new bosses: the 450,000 citizens of
Kansas City.”
This quote, found on Mark
Funkhouser’s campaign Web site, well
represents the style of Kansas City’s
new mayor.
Formerly city auditor, Funkhouser
has always been a strong advocate
for the basic needs of Kansas City’s
citizens. And while it hasn’t always
endeared him to the powers that be,
Funkhouser’s courage to speak truth
to power has become one of his
hallmarks to the average citizen.
Funkhouser says his intricate
knowledge of the city from his
auditor days was a catalyst in his
decision to run.
“I know how the system works
and I know how to make it work
better,” he says. “My job was to study
City Hall, to identify what works and
what doesn’t, and to come up with
solutions to problems that affect us
all. It was also my passion, because
I’m a Kansas Citian. I want my city
to be a clean, safe and prosperous
place to live.”
Funkhouser strongly believes in
starting with the basics. “We first
handle the most basic tasks at hand,”
he emphasizes. “In other words, forget
Paris – let’s compete more effectively
with Prairie Village.”
Bloch Alumni in Politics
Funkhouser is a graduate of the UMKC
Interdisciplinary PhD program within
the School of Graduate Studies with an
emphasis on public administration from
the Bloch Department of Public Affairs.
Outgoing mayor Kay Barnes earned her
master of public administration at Bloch
in 1978. In addition, the following Bloch
alumni were elected to Kansas City’s
new City Council: Beth Gottstein (MPA
’99), 4th District at Large; Jan Marcason
(EMBA ’99), 4th District; John A. Sharp
(MPA ’79 BPA), 6th District.
Public Affairs Student Association helps students connect with each other,
community and current events.
Every second Tuesday, 10-15
students from the Bloch School’s
Department of Public Affairs descend
on Pizza 51 across the street for a little
shoptalk and a lot of camaraderie.
Some day soon, these graduate
students will lead public service in
Kansas City and beyond, but for now,
they’re trying to learn more about
their field.
They are the Public Administration
Student Association, or PASA.
Launched in spring 2006, PASA was
created to enrich the social, academic
and professional environment of
public administration students.
Before PASA, “we didn’t have
a chance to formally talk about the
issues brought up in class, or in the
sector in general,” says Erin Nelson,
PhD student and chair of PASA. “We
didn’t have a formal venue to talk
about the research we’re doing. PASA
gives us a place to share ideas.”
In addition to monthly happy
hours, PASA hosts a panel and review
each semester. The PASA panel
brings in professionals from the
community who represent each
prong of public administration:
health administration, nonprofit
managementand urban affairs.
“It’s interesting to see how all
three sectors share similar concerns,”
says Nelson. “It helps us realize the
commonality between the three areas.”
At a recent panel, board members
and executives of the American
Society of Public Administration,
Council on Philanthropy, American
Fundraising Professionals, Urban Land
Institute and the American Public
Works Association spoke about the
benefits of student membership and
how their organizations were helping
students and professionals better
handle the sector’s emerging trends.
The PASA review, also held once
each semester, gives students the
opportunity to present their research
to other students and faculty, allowing
all Bloch students to see what public
administration is all about.
PASA cosponsored a mayoral
forum with the African-American
Student Association in February, and
hopes to create collaborations with
other UMKC schools.
“We enjoy the opportunity to
work with other departments and
disciplines,” adds Nelson. “It helps
us realize just how deep the roots of
public service are.”
Peace Corps Volunteers Bring World Experience Back Home
Cookingham Program allows returning volunteers an opportunity to turn skills into education.
This winter, the L.P. Cookingham
Institute for Urban Affairs in the
Bloch School’s Department of Public
Affairs introduced a new Peace Corps
Fellows/USA Program specifically for
returning Peace Corps volunteers.
One of only six Peace Corps Fellows
public administration programs in
the country, the new program not
only gives returning volunteers an
opportunity to earn a master of
public administration degree, it lets
them bring their world experience
back to communities in Kansas City
and the United States.
The program applies specifically
to Peace Corps volunteers who have
worked in a community-building
field and want to translate their skills
to work with communities in the
United States, particularly those in
the urban core.
“Peace Corps volunteers are adept
at working in arduous conditions
with limited resources, much like
the underserved communities of the
urban core of Kansas City where they
will be interning while a full-time
student,”says Liana Riesinger, program
coordinator. “What makes our program
unique is the synergy in Kansas City
between public, nonprofit and
private sectors.”
Participants in the program receive
six credit hours tuition remission
per semester; a $10,000 work stipend
through paid internships in community
-building organizations such as
nonprofits, community development
corporations, state and local
government agencies and health
service organizations; opportunities
for networking events, workshops
and conferences within their area
of study; and membership in the
American Society for Public
Administration.
“Pursuing my MPA was a natural
extension of volunteering for the
Peace Corps,” says Tim Swenney
(MPA ’06) who helped develop the
program at UMKC. “My experiences
as a volunteer deepened my
commitment to a career in community
development. My studies as a graduate
student enhanced my capacity to
manage organizations dedicated to
community development.”
To learn more about the Peace
Corps Fellows Program at the
Cookingham Institute, call
816-235-2894.
PASA Chair Erin Nelson (standing) introduces public administration community professionals and panelists to an audience of PASA students and Bloch faculty.
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The Bloch School works hard to
make its borders permeable. Whether
it’s the Bloch Advisory Council and
Bloch Executive Speakers Series,
the Executive MBA program, the
Institute for Entrepreneurship and
Innovation, the Midwest Center for
Nonprofit Leadership or the Public
Administration Student Association,
Bloch faculty, students and alumni
consistently reach beyond the brick
and mortar of the school to lead
thought, build careers and support
business in Kansas City.
Dean O. Homer Erekson’s leadership in the Greater Kansas City
Chamber of Commerce’s Economic
Advisory Board is one more example
of how the Bloch School has opened
its doors to a steady in-and-out stream
of ideas.
The Economic Advisory Board
(EAB) is the Chamber’s “economic
policy apparatus,” says David
Albrecht, manager, Business Research,
Business Growth. EAB selects the
overarching themes that form the
discussions at the Chamber’s three
economic events: the Economic
Forecast Breakfast, Inside Kansas City
and the Economic Forum. Erekson
co-chairs the board with William
Downey, president and CEO of
Kansas City Power and Light.
Representing academics, finance,
manufacturing, engineering and
transport, the EAB team bridges
business and economics—and creates
conversations about those economic
issues that affect Kansas City.
“It’s not just about equations that
rotate in the clouds, and it’s not just
financial services
Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce Economic
Advisory Board: Thought Leaders, Business Builders
State Street News Center
Putting Information in Context
about people doing business,” says
Albrecht. “The EAB helps find a
common point of interest where we
can bring the two worlds together:
the nuts and bolts of business and the
theories of economics.”
Erekson brings a serious economic
background, says Albrecht, “but he is
also a hands-on administrator when it
comes to encouraging entrepreneurship
and small business creativity.”
“The Bloch School must continue
to be a leader,” says Erekson. “This
is one way we do that, by speaking
the language of business, helping
the community focus on important
economic issues and creating a
dialogue about how those issues affect
Kansas City.”
The Bloch School has two State Street News Centers on either side of the first floor where students can sit, talk, study or catch up on world news and
industrial averages.
Global Financial Perspectives
Bloch students bank on experience in China
Last October, U.S. Treasury
Secretary Henry Paulson noted that
“China’s economic development is
very, very important to China and the
rest of the world,” and that he believed
“the most important long-term
economic relationship we’re going to
have is going to be our relationship
with China and vice versa.”
In April 2007, a group of 29 Bloch
School Executive MBA students
spent a week in China as part of an
international residency. Their trip
included meetings with Terence
Cuddyre, a managing director of
Citigroup, Sarah Kemp, commercial
officer for the U.S. Embassy and a
forum with Graham Brown and Wei
Xin, two attorneys for JunZeJun
Law Offices, a prominent law firm in
Beijing specializing in international
business finance.
EMBA student Donna Ward,
assistant vice president at the Federal
Reserve Bank of Kansas City, was
intrigued by the challenges facing
regulatory authorities in China and
noted that “it was apparent that
banking was at the center of economic
activity in China.”
Financial planning in China faces
special challenges with the average
Chinese citizen saving 40 percent of
their income, in comparison to 1
percent for U.S. citizens. It occurred to
EMBA student Tammy Breitenbach,
director of sales development for H&R
Block, that “the growing middle class
holds interests for firms in the tax
preparation business or for firms able
to provide financial planning advice.”
Qing Cao, Bloch School assistant
professor of management information
systems, accompanied students on
the trip and made the following
observation: “For all of our students,
it became clear that doing business in
China involved sometimes complex
relationships, but ones that were
imperative to confront with the
growing importance of China in the
world economy.”
The Bloch school strives to
incorporate global perspectives into
curriculum, from undergraduate
through Executive MBA levels, to
prepare students for the ever-changing
global economy in which they will
live and work.
Najmeh Mahmoudjafari, junior,
has an 8 a.m. class that meets every
morning in the Bloch School. She
likes to get to school a little early to
prep for quizzes, review her notes—
and catch up on Bloch news, world
events and the Dow Jones Industrial
Average.
Mahmoudjafari starts her day in
the Bloch School’s Student Lounge,
gathering her information at the
State Street News Center, four
wall-mounted LCD screens that offer
a mix of school announcements,
alumni profiles, business facts, financial
data, local weather, headline news
and live CNN feeds.
“This really lets you see how classroom information applies in the real
world,” says Mahmoudjafari.
The Bloch School Student
Association originally proposed, and
partially funded, the idea for electronic
displays that would provide news to
the Bloch community. They went to
Lanny Solomon, the Bloch School’s
associate dean for academic affairs,
who, with the help of Dean O. Homer
Erekson and Director of Development
Danny Baker, found partners to help
realize the group’s dream.
Rise Vision has nearly 15 years
experience with information-rich
news venues. They have installed and
managed content for universities,
banks and businesses nationwide,
including business schools at Notre
Dame and the University of Virginia.
Rise Vision installed the four screens
in the Student Lounge, a place chosen
because of its visual prominence,
and continues to provide Web-based
content.
“We saw this as a way to market
the school in a variety of ways to
students, faculty, alumni, anyone
who visits our building,” says
Solomon. “The displays show that
we value information, technology
and communication.”
With the solution in place, Bloch
needed a financial partner to support
the news center. State Street,
which provides financial services to
institutional asset managers, stepped
up. Allen Strain, managing director
for State Street’s Kansas City office,
had taught introductory accounting
classes at the Bloch School as an
adjunct and currently serves on the
Bloch School Advisory Council. He
saw this as a good opportunity to
support the Bloch School and UMKC.
“State Street, like other downtown
employers, wants Kansas City to have
a vibrant urban core,” says Strain.
“The tremendous generosity of the
Bloch family and the Institute for
Entrepreneurship and Innovation with
Dr. (Michael) Song are examples
of things that are beneficial to
Kansas City.
“Any opportunity to help UMKC
succeed is an opportunity to help
Kansas City succeed.”
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alumni
My fellow alumni,
What is the cornerstone of a great
university? A UMKC publication
stated that it “is found in the diversity,
character and accomplishments of
its graduates.” For me, this means a
school’s graduates continue to build
upon their academic and social
learning experiences in their career
successes and societal contributions.
The cornerstone becomes stronger
when the university benefits from
the expertise and contributions of its
graduates.
The Bloch Alumni Association
exists to provide an avenue to keep
you connected with the Bloch School,
your fellow alumni and students, our
future alumni. The Alumni Association
Board is committed to providing
opportunities for your participation
and involvement. In addition to
alumni-only activities such as happy
hours, we provide opportunities
for student and alumni interaction
through mentoring and other
forums to bring real world expertise
to students.
A significant goal for fall 2008 is
creating a legacy fundraising event for
the Bloch School, specifically hosting
the Bloch School Golf Tournament
at one of Kansas City’s premier golf
clubs. We ask for your help to make
these initiatives succeed, and no
involvement is too small.
Calvin Coolidge once said, “No
person was ever honored for what he
received. Honor has been the reward
for what he gave.” As an alumna of
the Bloch School at UMKC, my hope
is that you will stay connected and
support our activities. Contact me or
any member of the Board to discuss
these opportunities.
From all of us on the Board, we
welcome and look forward to your
involvement.
Loyally,
Patricia “Candy” Yakimo
Executive MBA ’98
Bloch Alumni Board President
Candy Yakimo
The following Bloch School alumni actively serve as your volunteer Alumni Board. As of June 30, 2007, there will be five open
positions. Consider joining the board. Visit us on the Web at www.bloch.umkc.edu/alumni-friends.
Scott Busch
Professional Direct Marketing
Certificate ’93
Business Development, Lexinet
Corporation
Board volunteer 2004–07
Michael Campo
Sub Committee Chair,
Golf Tournament
Executive MBA ’01
Senior Vice President and Team Leader
– Enterprise Business, Lockton
Board volunteer since 2006
Renee Donoho
Vice President, Communications
BBA ’98, MBA ’00
Associate, Donoho Appraisals
Pamela Linwood
Direct Marketing Certificate ’93
Owner, Linwood Direct
Communications
Pasha Hosseini
Sub Committee Chair,
Student Outreach
BBA ’05
Marketing Consultant,
H&R Block, Inc.
Judy Mullin
Executive MBA ’04
President, TRIOMEDIA
Eleanor “Leigh” Klein
MPA ’87
Former Development
Director, Sunflower House
Semi-retired
Russell Koca
Vice President, Leadership
MBA ’88
Partner, Koch & Koch
A Life, A Legacy
Bloch Leadership Associates:
A Symbiotic Relationship between School and Community
Bloch Alumni Association Board
Patricia “Candy” Yakimo
President
Executive MBA ’98
Senior Vice President, Human
Resources/Strategic Planning,
Argus Health Systems
Regina Reynolds:
Angie Salmon
BBA ’00, MBA ’01
Vice President, EFL Associates
Melanie Tucker
Immediate Past President
BSA ’89, MSA ’90
Vice President, Finance –
JE Dunn Construction
In March 2007, the Dean’s
Advisory Council of the Bloch
School launched Bloch Leadership
Associates, a new program designed to
serve business and civic organizations
and individuals who want to be
partners in helping shape the School’s
future. Inaugural members develop
a close connection with faculty and
students and are also able to take
advantage of special charter
membership privileges.
Individual-level members receive
an array of benefits to match that
individual’s interests. In addition to
continual recognition in the Bloch
magazine, the Bloch School Web site
and other publications, individual
members are invited to an annual
Bloch breakfast briefing to learn about
leading-edge research and scholarship
undertaken by distinguished faculty.
These members also earn reserved
seats for all Bloch School Leadership
Speaker Series events as well as tickets
to the prestigious Entrepreneur of the
Year Awards Dinner.
Business and civic organization
members have the privilege of
attending special presentations by the
Bloch School faculty thought leaders
and other distinguished scholars
who shed new light on the leading
business and civic topics of the day.
They will also receive special assistance in identifying extraordinary
candidates for their company’s
internships and opportunities to
serve as judges for the Institute for
Entrepreneurship and Innovation’s
New Venture Challenge
Competition, providing insider
access to new business innovations.
Those who choose to join at
the Dean’s Innovation Circle (the
highest level of membership)
also have the opportunity for
consultations with Bloch School
faculty experts to address problems
facing their business or organization
as well as exclusive semi-annual
luncheons hosted by Dean O. Homer
Erekson.
“The combination of camaraderie
and an insider’s perspective on
business topics and leaders makes
the Bloch Leadership Associates an
excellent opportunity for the School
and the business community to
connect and share a mutually
beneficial relationship,” says Danny
Baker, Bloch School director of
development.
For more information about
charter membership, contact
Baker at bakerdani@umkc.edu or
816-235-2316.
Those who knew Regina Reynolds
were impressed by her intelligence,
imagination and the grace with
which she handled everything that
came her way. She was known as a
leader’s leader: the person others
want to emulate and the person
everyone wants as a teammate.
Members of the 2006 Executive
MBA class knew her well. She was
a stand-out classmate and devoted
friend to many. Her professional
colleague and friend, Scott Arvidson,
vice president and chief information
officer at Kansas City Southern,
remembers Reynolds as a person
everyone wants as an associate
because she had the unique talent
to inspire every person she met to
be a success.
In February 2006, Reynolds passed
away, leaving many to miss the joy
and energy she injected into their
lives and work.
Reynolds’ classmates, family
(Warren and Nancy Reynolds,
Heather Livers and Sarah Buckley),
and Kansas City Southern Industries
joined together to keep Reynolds’
spirit and legacy alive at the Bloch
School by creating the Regina
Reynolds Scholarship – an endowed
scholarship established to support
women students who exemplify the
qualities that Reynolds embodied:
dedication to work, scholarly pursuit,
family, and to the care, growth and
development of her colleagues.
Reynolds left too soon, but her
name and legacy will be with the
Bloch School in perpetuity. For alumni
and friends interested in extending
Reynolds’ legacy with a contribution
to the scholarship that bears her
name, contact Danny Baker at
bakerdani@umkc.edu or 816-235-2316.
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CLASS NOTES
Scott Ast (MPA ’91) founded and is
now chairman of the American Society
for Industrial Security International (ASIS)
Agriculture Ad Hoc Council, fostering
professional security standards in
agriculture.
Greg M. Baker (MBA ’88) was named
president of Arvest Bank in Branson, Mo.
Todd Becker (EMBA ’04) has joined
K2B (Knowledge to Business), an Overland
Park-based company that deals in
advanced retail planning.
Karen Bell-Dancy (EMBA ’01) is
working on a doctorate degree in
leadership, education and communication
while serving as an assistant director in
the Office of Admissions at the University
of Nebraska.
Alumni Spotlight: Tom Holcom
Investing in America’s Future
Jacob Dobsch (MPA ’05) is now
a city planner with the Kansas City, Mo.
City Hall.
Teri Ann Drake (MBA ’99) was
named a corporate officer and will lead
Hallmark’s 1,400-member creative
community.
Kenneth R. Farmer (MBA ’99) is vice
president for academic affairs at God’s
Bible School and College in Cincinnati. He
recently led the institution to receiving
candidacy status with the Higher Learning
Commission of the North Central
Association of Colleges and Schools.
Marilyn Fowler (MPA ’75) is president
and CEO of the Women’s Intercultural
Network in San Francisco.
Deanne Bronaugh (EMBA ’06) has
joined the Cerner Corporation as a client
benefit consultant.
Dr. George Whitfield “Whit”
Holcomb (EMBA ’02) was recently
named one of Kansas City’s “Top Docs”
by Ingram’s magazine.
Hamad Mubarak Buamim (MBA ’02)
has been appointed deputy director
general of the Dubai Chamber of
Commerce.
Alice Kitchen (MPA ’89) was
appointed by former Kansas City Mayor
Kay Barnes to serve as vice chair for
the Housing Authority.
Steven Byers (MPA ’84) is the
new director of development and
communications for WaterPartners
International in Kansas City.
Zhihua Li (MPA ’99) is a financial
analyst with Hewlett-Packard.
Gerald Cohen (MPA ’85), currently
the Oregon State Director at AARP, is
heading a ballot initiative in Oregon to
extend a discounted prescription drug
program to all uninsured Oregon
residents.
Chuck Connely (MBA ’73) has been
promoted to general manager-vice
president of Butler Real Estate, Inc., a
subsidiary of Butler Manufacturing
Company, a BlueScope Steel Company.
Brian Corn (EMBA ’04) has
established FourView Software, LLC.
Marshall Dean III (MBA ’03) has
been promoted to customer service
manager at Top Master, Inc., a custom
countertop fabricator.
Elaine K. Mann (BBA ’97) has been
named president of KidCARE Medical
Television Network, Inc.
Michael Mayberry (EMBA ’05) is
now CEO of the Community Health
Council of Wyandotte County, Kan.
Michael McAfee (MPA ’96) has
launched an e-philanthropy company
named SimplePath, Inc. at
www.simplepath.org.
LaChondra Nevins (EMBA ’04) has
been named president of the Kansas
City chapter of the National Black MBA
Association.
Jerry C. Ney, (Professional
Direct Marketing Certificate ’95)
has been named chief executive officer
at Aldersgate Village.
Bill Roush (MBA ’91) recently joined
Black & Veatch’s Renewable Energy
Group involved in biomass, wind, ethanol
and solar power projects.
Scott Sovereign (EMBA ’02) is
national account manager for Check
Point Software Technologies.
Roderick Sturgeon (MBA ’77)
was named the first CFO of the Stowers
Institute for Medical Research.
Mark Talley (MBA ’06) was hired as
a sales agent for Fishman and Co., an
Olathe, Kan.-based real estate firm.
David P. Thomas (EMBA ’97) has
joined LaSalle Bank as group senior
vice president and head of diversity and
inclusion for LaSalle Bank Corporation
and all other North American ABN AMRO
Bank N.V. entities.
Radhilca Tripuraneni (BBA ’03)
has been appointed chief medical officer
at Summer Street Research Partners, a
boutique health care equity research firm
in Boston.
Jana Utter (EMBA ’01) is now
director of enterprise risk management
for Midwest ISO in Carmel, Ind.
Margaret J. Watts (MBA ’01) is
starting a new position as facilities
service coordinator at the Avery Dennison
Corporation.
Mike Wilson (MBA ’06) and 2005
Bloch Student Entrepreneur of the Year,
was hired as an account executive at
Ingram’s magazine/Show-Me Publishing,
Inc.
Michael B. Wood (MPA ’75) received
the 2006 World Citizen Award from then
Kansas City Mayor Kay Barnes at the
annual Mayors’ U.N. Day dinner.
At the Bloch School’s 2005
Commencement, Tom Holcom (BBA
’72) played Cheshire cat to an
audience of graduating seniors—
most, like the wandering girl in
Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland,
wanting to know which way they
ought to go from here. His challenge:
decide where you want to end up.
Holcom then distributed business
cards and asked the graduates to flip
them over and write their epitaph. It
wasn’t an exercise in morbidity, it was
an exercise in values.
This kind of long-term vision
statement, deciding where it is you
want to go, says Holcom, is what
drives businesses, nonprofits and the
people behind them to success.
He should know.
As the president of Pioneer
Financial Services, Holcom has led
his team of 300 associates to enhance
the quality of life and financial
independence of military members
and their families. Every day, they
make a difference in the lives of
those who serve their country, and
their work has earned accolades for
their team and for Holcom. In 2006,
Pioneer earned the American Business
“Stevie” Award for Best Corporate
Responsibility Program and was
recognized for the second time in
three years as the 18th Best
Medium-Sized Company to Work
for in America by the Great Places to
Work Institute.
U.S. Army Reservist Lt. Col. Richard McNorton (left) and Army Reservist Col. Bryan Wampler (right)
present Tom Holcom, president of Pioneer Financial Services, Inc., with the Freedom Team Salute award
in Kansas City, Mo. Holcom accepted the honor on behalf of more than 300 Pioneer Services associates
around the country who “make a difference, one military family at a time.”
Always crediting the focus and
passion of Pioneer’s associates, Holcom
earned the Entrepreneur of the Year
Award for Social Responsibility in the
Central Midwest region from Ernst &
Young and the Freedom Team Salute
for supporting Pioneer associates
who serve in the National Guard and
Reserve, both in 2006.
Outside of the office, Holcom
works with several nonprofit
organizations, including Angel Flight,
which provides access to charitable
air transportation; Big Brothers and
Big Sisters; Truman Medical Center
Foundation; Command and General
Staff College Foundation; and Athena
PowerLink, which helps women-owned
companies grow.
All of his work—with Pioneer, with
nonprofits, even when he coached his
three sons through 17 years of
soccer—follows his own personal
vision, written as an epitaph on the
back of a business card when he
graduated from the Bloch School in
1972. It reads, “He has no regrets. He
made a difference.”
Thomas H. Holcom Make a Difference Scholarship
Make a difference—the mantra has
followed Holcom throughout his professional
and civic contributions and has even seeped
into the hearts, minds and pocketbooks of
his colleagues. In 2005, the executives from
Pioneer Services elected to fund a scholarship
at the Bloch School in Holcom’s name.
“They wanted a legacy for the concepts that
we embrace so well here at Pioneer, namely
that we want to make a difference,” says
Holcom. “They, in turn, wanted to make a
difference for business students at the Bloch
School.” Holcom was so moved, he matched
the gift.
The Thomas H. Holcom Make a
Difference Scholarship is available to
full-time undergraduate or graduate students
in the Bloch School. Selection is based on
academic achievement, community
involvement, professional excellence and
financial need.
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Henry W. Bloch School of Business and
Public Administration Donor Honor Roll
The following Donor Honor
Roll is in appreciation and
gratitude to our contributing
partners and reflects gifts of
$100 and above received
between July 1, 2005 and
Jan. 31, 2007. The names that
follow are those of alumni,
friends, faculty and staff,
businesses, foundations, and
organizations. All have made
a public commitment to the
unique education offered by
the Henry W. Bloch School
of Business and Public
Administration and through
their action have enriched the
lives of countless individuals.
Charter members of the Bloch
Leadership Associates are
noted with an asterisk (*)
and have made a special
commitment to support the
dean’s strategic initiatives.
The Donor Honor Roll is
based on cumulative gifts for
the period.
100,000+
Anonymous
Henry W. & Marion H. Bloch
and Affiliated Funds/
Endowments
The Children of Henry W. &
Marion H. Bloch:
Robert L. & Barbara Bloch
Thomas M. & Mary S. Bloch
Mary Jo & Robert G. Brown
Elizabeth & Paul Uhlmann III
Arvin Gottlieb Charitable
Foundation
H&R Block Foundation
Missouri Department of
Economic Development
The Roetheli Lil’ Red
Foundation*
50,000+
William T. Kemper
Foundation
State Street*
20,000+
George K. Baum Foundation
The Farmer Family Foundation
H&R Block, Inc.*
William T. Kemper Trust
The John Sublett Logan
Foundation
The Sosland Foundation
10,000+
American Century Foundation
Blue Cross Blue Shield of
Kansas City
Mr. Philip J. Brummel
Entertainment Properties Trust
Mr. James E. Ferrell
Louis & Elizabeth Flarsheim
Foundation
Hall Family Foundation
Mr. & Mrs. Barnett C.
Helzberg Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H.
Holcom Jr.*
Hunt Midwest Enterprises, Inc.
Kansas City Southern
Industries, Inc.
Muriel McBrien Kauffman
Foundation
Pioneer Financial Services, Inc.
George P. Reintjes Company, Inc.
Victor & Caroline Schutte
Foundation
The Ten Ten Foundation
5,000+
Aquila, Inc.
BNP Paribas North America,
Inc.
Thomas Cairns Jr. Trust
Mr. and Mrs. Newton A.
Campbell
Commerce Bank
Ernest & Young LLP
Shirley and Barnett Helzberg
Foundation
JMW & Associates, LLC*
KPMG LLP*
Kansas City Power & Light
Company
Enid & Crosby Kemper
Foundation
Massman Construction
Company
Midwest Mechanic Contractors
Polsinelli Shalton Flanigan
Suelthaus PC
Lockton Companies, Inc.
Mr. Steven B. Rafferty
RSM McGladrey, Inc.
Vincent V. Smith Charitable
Lead Trust
Stinson Morrison Hecker LLP
Norman and Elaine Polsky
Family Supporting
Foundation
U.S. Bancorp Foundation
Whitbread Management, Inc.
2,500+
Mr. Alan D. Barnes
Thomas and Janet Bash
Berkel & Company Contractors, Inc.
Robert & Phyliss Bernstein Family
Foundation
Bernstein-Rein Advertising, Inc.
Black and Veatch*
Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin, LLP
Cereal Food Processors, Inc.
Cerner Corporation
Columbian Bank*
Deloitte & Touche
DST Systems, Inc. Advised Fund
Kansas City Business Journal
Kingston Environmental
Services, Inc.
Laser Cycle/Ink Cycle, Inc.
Ms. Catherine A. Lewis
Mrs. Jeanette Nichols
Right Management Consultants
Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal
Sprint Nextel Corporation
1,000+
Adams-Gabbert & Associates, Inc.
Andrews McMeel Universal
Foundation
Armstong Teasdale LLP
Baker University
Bank of America
Bank Midwest
Benedictine College
Mr. Peter W. Brown
Bryan Cave LLP
Centene Management Company LLC
Century Business Services, Inc.
Mr. Kenneth S. Cherry
Citizens Bank and Trust
Mr. & Mrs. Thornton Cooke II
Creative Blow Mold Tooling
Barry & Pat Daneman
Dr. and Mrs. Richard E. Davis Sr.
DCM Construction, Inc.
Renee L. Donoho*
Economic Development Corporation
of Kansas City
Enterprise Bank & Trust
Dr. O. Homer Erekson
Randall Ferguson Jr.*
Francis Family Foundation
Golden Star, Inc.
Hallmark Cards, Incorporated
Helzberg Entrepreneurial Mentoring
Mr. Dave Hinck
Human Resource Forum
Integra Realty Resources
J T & A, Inc.
J.E. Dunn Construction Group, Inc.
J.P. Morgan Chase
Kansas City Area Life Sciences
Institute, Inc.
Kansas City Area Development
Council
Kansas City Life Insurance Company
KC Small Business Monthly
K. C. Southern Industries Charitable
Fund
Kearney Commercial Bank
Mr. Lee R. Lyon
M & I Bank
Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw
Mr. and Mrs. Harry C. McCray Jr.
Mr. Robert McMullan
Mrs. Mary A. Mullis
William and Barbara Nelson
Mr. Edward Newberry
Mr. & Mrs. Fred H. Pryor
Mr. & Mrs. Warren L. Reynolds
Mrs. Elaine B. Ryder
Schifman, Remley & Associates
Mr. Michael A. & Mrs. Cathy P.
Schultz
Shughart Thomson & Kilroy, P.C.
Frederick & Elizabeth Solberg
Mr. Arthur L. and Mrs. Barbara S.
Stern
Mr. William D. Sullivan
Truman Medical Center Charitable
Foundation
Turner Construction Company
UMKC Alumni Association
University of Kansas Hospital
Authority
Valentine Radford Communications,
Inc.
Venture West Development, LLC
Douglas and Julie Welch
Frank & Helen Wewers Family Fund
Mr. Gene Wilson
Mrs. Sally Kemper Wood
Ms. Nicole Wright
Mr. Michael & Mrs. Patricia Yakimo*
Mr. Edgar & Mrs. Carol C. Yee*
Mr. Hugh J. Zimmer
The Zimmer Companies
500+
Baird, Kurtz & Dobson
Greater Kansas City Chamber of
Commerce
Dr. David P. Donnelly
Mr. Anthony Downs
Mr. James R. and Mrs. Judith Y. Gold
Grant Thornton
Dr. Frederick H. Hays
Highwoods Properties-JC Nichols
Mr. William K. Hoskins
Ms. Michelle M. Martin
Mr. Robert L. McKim Jr.
Mr. Michael F. Morrissey
Newcastle Partners, LLC
NMR
Mr. and Mrs. Roderick M. Olson
Price Waterhouse Coopers
Mr. Robert J. Reintjes Jr.
Mr. Bill L. Richards
Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Slegman
Dr. Lanny M. Solomon
Southfield Capital Advisors, LLC
Mr. Donald Stanley
Harry S. Truman Library Institute
UMKC Trustees
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Vittetoe
Mr. and Mrs. Peter L. Woodsmall
250+
Mr. Jim Alsup
Mr. Don R. and Mrs. Wendy S.
Armacost Jr.
Mr. Daniel Baker
Blue Chip Group, Inc.
Mr. Roger W. Borgelt
Mrs. Mary Shaw Branton
Dr. Bibie M. Chronwall
Copaken Family Foundation
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29
Mr. Chris D. and Mrs. Cheryl
L. Davis
Mr. Frederick Anthonious Findley
Fleishman-Hillard, Inc.
Mr. Joe B. Freeman
Mr. Michael G. Gerken
Mr. and Mrs. Gary Gradinger
Grant Thornton Foundation
Donald and Adele Hall
Heartland Bank
Ms. Laura R. Hockaday
Dr. and Mrs. John D. Hunkeler
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Jezak
Kansas City Chiefs
Mr. William Henry Laws
Thomas J. Lee
Dr. Karyl B. and Mr. Salvatore J.
Leggio
Mr. Richard M. and Carol H.
Levin Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Harold S. Melcher
Mr. C. Stephen Metzler
Dr. Stephen J. Morris
Mr. Earl T. Newton Jr.
Mr. Mark J. Otterstrom
Ms. Michelle M. Piranio
Mr. Todd Pleimann
Ms. Janice Y. Preston
Mr. Billy Prim
Dr. Stephen W. Pruitt
Dr. Mark and Dr. Jen Reintjes
Ms. Caroline Reintjes
Dr. Steve and Mrs. Mary P.
Reintjes
Mr. Irving C. and Mrs. Anna Lee
Rubin
Dr. Walter Joseph Rychlewski III
Ms. Julie Schaller
Mr. Michael K. Schnitker
Mr. David Seay
Mr. Richard D. Sewell
Mr. Stephen W. and Mrs. Linda
Skrainka
Mr. Eric Slusser
Mr. Steven W. Spillman
Ms. Patricia E. Taylor
Bryan and Jennifer Wampler
Mr. Patrick J. Whalen
100+
Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Adkins
Mr. Robert G. Aikin
Mrs. Barbara J. Anderson
Association for Corporate Growth
– KC Chapter
Mr. Bret Douglas Aulgur
Ms. Andrea Babbit
Mr. and Mrs. John R. Baker
Dr. Gary D. Baker
Ms. Shirley Baker
Dr. F. Barry Barnes
Mr. Edward J. Bartak
Bayer Healthcare, Animal Health
Division
Mr. Paul J. Beggs
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Bell
Mr. David and Ms. Josephine M.
Belpedio
Mr. and Mrs. Irvin V. Belzer
Mrs. Shelli Benner-Rigolosi
Berkebile Nelson Immenschuh
McDowell
Ms. Kristine S. Birney
Mr. and Mrs. Murray Max
Blackwelder
Mrs. Rhayma Ann Blake
Ms. Deborah J. Blakely
Mr. and Mrs. Howard T. Boasberg
Mrs. Catherine C. Bortnick
Mr. Aaron Boyd
Ms. Deanne Bronaugh
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene D. Brown
Dr. Kenneth Buchwach
Mr. Wilbur Craig Buckheit
Mr. and Mrs Troy R. Butler
Mr. Mark K. Byler
Mr. and Mrs. Dale L. Cantrell
Mr. Ronald C. Chamberlain
Mrs. May Hongmei Chen
Mrs. Courtney W. Christensen
Ms. Barbara J. Clark
Mr. Richard L. Clark
Ms. Lynne Clawson-Day
Coffman Group
Dr. Mary Davidson Cohen
Mr. James A. and Mrs. Connie
K. Cole
Community America Credit Union
Mr. William Conroy
Ms. Gertrude F. Coogan
Mr. David E. Crandall
Mr. Patrick D. and Mrs. Janice L.
Cubbage
Curtis Management, Inc.
Mr. Kristopher Dabner
Mr. James H. Dailey
Mr. Gerald F. Deneen
Mr. Michael Devine
Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Downey
Mr. John P. Dreves
Mr. D. John Dr. Linda L. and Edwards
Mr. Gregory Eugene Emery
Dr. Susan T. and Mr. David E.
Everson Jr.
Mr. Steven Fehr
Mr. Robert L. Ferguson
Ms. Sandra Ferguson
FLM Industries, Inc.
Mr. Kenneth James Fulk
Mr. and Mrs. David Raymond
Gaebler
Mr. Robert V. Gahagan
Ms. Beverly A. Godwin
Mr. Gerald W. and Mrs. Anita B.
Gorman
Mrs. Nancy A Grasse
Mr. David C. Graves
Mr. Thomas D. Green
Mr. Jim B. and Mrs. Sharon
Greenwood
Mr. Terrence M. and Mrs. Lois S.
Greenwood
Mr. David Drew Griscom
Mrs. Marian N. Grossman
Growth Opportunity Connection,
Inc.
Mrs. Paula Bush Halsey
Mr. Donald Charles Harms
Mr. and Mrs. Carter Harrison Jr.
Mr. Jeffrey S. Hartmann
Ms. Joan L. Hartung
Mr. J. Randall and Mrs. Cathy L.
Hedlund
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Joe Heide
Mrs. Betty L. Henson
Ms. Anita Jean Herbers
Dr. Robert D. and Mrs. Charlotte
Herman
Mr. Greg and Ms. Libby Hinrichs
Mr. Dan H. and Mrs. Louise A.
Hoxworth
Prof. Christopher R. Hoyt
Mr. Gregory A. and Mrs. Jeanne
Hultgren
Ingels, Inc.
Mr. Ben B. Inzerillo
Mr. Eric J. Jantzen
Rev. Carl and Ms. Helen Marie
Johnson
Mr. Richard W. Johnson
Dr. Michael and Mrs. Jerilyn Jones
Kansas City Visitors and Convention
Association
Keeping the People, Inc.
Dr. Kathryn Kelm
Mr. Larry R. Kemm
Mr. Ian G. Kennedy
Key Consulting Associates
Ms. Karen Lynn Krumme
Mr. Timothy J. Kruse
Mr. Andrew Lai
Mr. and Mrs. William J. Lavery
Ms. Bobbi Abram Layton
Mr. Wayne Lebsack
Mr. Bradley A. and Ms. Julie
Mercer Lee
Mr. Harry J. Lemley III
Mr. Mark Dawson Leslie
Mr. Harlan L. Limpus
Mr. Albert Y. Lin
Mr. Hsu-Yang Sunny Lu
Mr. and Mrs. Larry C. Maddox
Mr. Henry I. Marder
Col. Ronald W. Marley
Mr. and Mrs. Alan R. Marsh
Mr. C. Frank and Ms. Deborah
McCalmon
Mr. D. Scott McCoy
Ms. Virginia B. McCoy
Mr. William R. McCullough
Ms. Kelly Anne McLean
Meara, King & Company
Ms. Kathryn L. Mendicki
Ms. Linda Eileen Miller
Mr. Wesley C. Miller
Missouri Council on Economic
Education
Mrs. Lillian Moore
Mr. Thomas Morefield
Mrs. Marsha L. Morgan
Mr. Kerry Morris
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Moulder
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Mr. Edward W. Nicholson Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Carl Nigro II
Mr. Masami and Mrs. Joyce H.
Nishimoto
Mr. Steven D. Ornduff
Mr. John Owen
Mr. Steven and Mrs. Karen Pack
Mr. Paul Eugene Palmer
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Gene Patterson
Ms. Karen L. Patton
Mr. Kevin Paul Pavicic
Mr. Harold Raymond Patterson
Mr. and Mrs. Gary Allen Pettus
Mr. and Mrs. John R. Phillips
Ms Heidi Pitts
Mrs. Barbara J. Plattner
Mr. Barry and Mrs. Peggy Jean Pollara
Dr. Edward J. and Mrs. Merry Prostic
Mr. Michael Pruitt
Mr. Steven R. Purvis
R&L Holdings, LLC
Mr. B. John Readey III and Mrs.
Ann P. Readey
Mr. William Blinn Rector
Dr. and Mrs. Sarvotham K. Reddy
Red Ram Trading Companies
Mr. Jerry Reece
Ms. Sharra Lynn Reed
Mr. Robert J. Reintjes Sr.
Mr. and Mrs. William Reisler
Mr. Carl R. Renfro
Mr. Randall Laverne Rhoads
Mr. Steven Rinne
Mr. Phillip J. Risalvato
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Robb
Mr. Donald Lee Robbins
Mr. Don L. Roberts
Mr. Warren A. Roberts III
Mr. Charles E. Roller
Mr. Dewayne Rothfuss
Rubin Brown, LLC
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Frederic Saeger
Ms. Karen Ann Sanders
Mr. and Mrs. Carroll Delmar
Satterfield
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Noel Sawyer
Mr. Andrew Schmidt
Mrs. Judith A. Schmidt
Mr. David Schoenherr
Mr. Dennis W. Scott
Siegel Enterprises, Inc.
Mr. Lester and Mrs. Myra Siegel
Dr. Joseph F. Singer
Ms. Susan Mitchell Smith
Mr. Eric L. and Mrs. Diane E. Smith
Mrs. Laura L. Snow
Mr. David Wayne Spellerberg
Mr. Marc R. Sportsman
Mr. and Mrs. George W. Steincross
Mr. Peter Steitz
Mr. Charles J. and Mrs. Sandra J.
Stimetz
Mr. Robert A. Stoy
Dr. Pamela S. Stuerke
Mr. Jon E. Stufflebean
Mr. Gary L. Sweany
Mr. and Mrs. Larry Taft
Mr. Glenn Talboy
Mr. M. Gary Talley
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Teater
Mr. Junior K. Thiry
Mr. Marlin Robert Thyer
Mr. Edward Tompkins
Dr. Robyne S. Turner
Mr. Dennis W. Valet
Mr. John Van Leuven
Ms. Karen Von Der Bruegge
Mr. Paul R. Voris
Mr. John Allan Wagner
Dr. Sidne G. Ward
Mr. and Mrs. Scott David Wedel
Ms. Julie D. Weltmer
Ms. Cynthia Sue Wendt
Mr. John James Wickstrom
William Jewell College
Mr. Henry Willis Jr.
Mr. Robert K. and Mrs. Amy Wolf
Mr. Dale J. Wolf
Mr. Guoqiang Xie
Mr. Stephen Ray Young
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Bloch School Faculty & Administration
new faces
The Bloch School continues to attract talented staff. Below are the newest additions.
Sandra Bretz
Executive Assistant
to the Dean
Jennifer Burke
Program Services Coordinator
Institute for Entrepreneurship
and Innovation
Florella Fisher
Administrative Assistant
UMKC Small Business and
Technology Development Center
Dewayne Long
Director, Northern Kansas Region
Heartland Procurement Technical
Assistance Center
Institute for Entrepreneurship
and Innovation
Eugene Pegler
Student Services Coordinator
Bloch Student Services Office
Victoria Prater
Director of Communications
Jill Stempleman
Administrative Assistant
External Relations Office
“We are blessed with having
dedicated and very productive
staff in the Bloch School. Often
our staff members are the first
contact for visitors to the Bloch
School. The day-to-day support
of our staff makes effective
learning, research and important
initiatives possible.”
– O. Homer Erekson, dean
Faculty contributions
Bloch School faculty regularly publish in leading
academic and professional journals. Below is a
sample of prestigious journals to which the faculty
contributed articles in 2006:
Academy of Management Learning and Education
Case Research Journal
Communications of ACM
Economics Letters
European Journal of Operational Research
Industrial Marketing Management
Information and Management
International Journal of Information Technology &
Decision Making
Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science
Journal of Applied Finance
Journal of Business
Journal of Consumer Marketing
Journal of Financial Planning
Journal of Information Technology Management
Journal of the Patent and Copyright Society
Journal of Product and Brand Management
Journal of Small Business Strategy
Management Science
Oil, Gas, and Energy Quarterly
R&D Management
SCMS Journal of Indian Management
Services Marketing Quarterly
The Nonprofit Quarterly
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This is a small sampling of awards and recognition
Bloch faculty received in the past year.
Lee Bolman, Marion Bloch/Missouri Endowed Chair
in Leadership, and his co-author Terrence Deal,
published their most recent book, The Wizard and
the Warrior (Jossey-Bass).
David Cornell, associate professor of accounting,
received the Elmer Pierson Award for Effective
Teaching.
Nancy Day, associate professor of human resource
management, and Doranne Hudson, Executivein-Residence, received a UMKC Faculty Research
Grant to conduct a study on the religious values
of entrepreneurs.
David Donnelly, chair, Department of Accountancy,
received the 2006-07 Bloch Graduating Student
Distinguished Faculty Award.
Randall Gardner, professor of accounting,
published the 8th edition of his book, 101 Tax
Saving Ideas (Wealth Builders Press).
Karyl Leggio, associate dean for academic
programs, and Marilyn Taylor, Gottlieb/Missouri
Chair of Strategic Management, along with their
co-author, David Bodde, published Managing
Enterprise Risk: What the Electric Industry Experience
Implies for Contemporary Business (Elsevier).
Michael Song, Charles N. Kimball, MRI/Missouri
Endowed Chair in Management of Technology and
Innovation, ranked No. 1, and Mark Parry, Ewing
Marion Kauffman/Missouri Endowed Chair in
Entrepreneurial Leadership, ranked No. 13, as
“World’s Top Innovation Management Scholars,”
in May 2007 article in the Journal of Product
Innovation Management.
The Bloch School received 2006 CASE (Council
for Advancement and Support of Education) Silver
Award for Excellence in Advertising for the BizEd
Series “The Bloch School Knows: Innovation
is Essential.”
O. Homer Erekson
Dean and Harzfeld Professor of
Economics and Business Policy
PhD, University of North Carolina
Lanny M. Solomon
Associate Dean for Academic
Affairs
Professor of Accounting
PhD, Case Western Reserve
University
Karyl Leggio
Associate Dean for Academic
Programs
Associate Professor of Finance
PhD, University of Kansas
Kami Thomas
Assistant Dean, Student Services
Gregory W. Arling
Associate Professor of Health
Services Administration
PhD, University of Illinois
Rajinder Arora
Schutte Professor of Direct
Marketing
PhD, Claremont Graduate School
Lee G. Bolman
Marion H. Bloch/Missouri
Endowed Chair in Leadership
PhD, Yale University
Gene Brown
Valentine Radford/Missouri
Endowed Professor of Marketing
PhD, University of Alabama
Rita M. Cain
Professor of Business Law
JD, University of Kansas
Qing Cao
Associate Professor of Management
Information Systems
PhD, University of Nebraska
David W. Cornell
Associate Professor of Accounting
PhD, Louisiana Sate University
Philip Crossland
Associate Professor of Business
Nancy Day
Associate Professor of Human
Resources
Stephen A. DeLurgio
Professor of Operations
Management
PhD, St. Louis University
David Donnelly
Professor and Chair, Department
of Accountancy
PhD, University of Illinois
Shad Dowlatshahi
Professor of Operations
Management
PhD, University of Iowa
Joan V. Gallos
Professor of Leadership
EdD, Harvard University
J. Randall Gardner
JD, University of Kansas
Larry R. Garrison
Richard A. Hamilton
Associate Professor of Direct
Marketing
DBA, Kent State University
Fred H. Hays
Carl W. Allendoerfer Professor of
Banking and Finance
PhD, Louisiana State University
Robert D. Herman
Professor of Organizational
Behavior
PhD, Cornell University
Jin-Mo Kim
Assistant Professor of Finance
PhD, Korea University
LaVern E. Krueger (Howie)
DBA, University of Colorado
David Kuipers
Assistant Professor of Finance
PhD, University of Missouri
Mark Parry
Ewing Marion Kauffman/Missouri
Endowed Chair in Entrepreneurial Leadership and Professor of
Marketing
PhD, University of Texas-Dallas
Nicholas C. Peroff
Professor of Public
Administration
PhD, University of WisconsinMadison
Roger A. Pick
Professor of Management
Information Systems
PhD, Purdue University
Stephen W. Pruitt
Arvin Gottlieb/Missouri Endowed
Chair in Business Economics
and Finance
PhD, Florida State University
David O. Renz
Beth K. Smith/Missouri Endowed
Chair in Nonprofit Leadership
PhD, University of Minnesota
Leon Robertson
Professor of Strategic and
International Business
PhD, Georgia State University
Joseph F. Singer
Professor of Business Operations
and Analysis
PhD, University of Arkansas
Michael Song
Charles N. Kimball, MRI/Missouri
Endowed Chair in Management of
Technology and Innovation and
Professor of Marketing
PhD, University of Virginia
Marilyn L. Taylor
Arvin Gottlieb/Missouri Endowed
Chair in Strategic Management
Chair, Department of Finance,
Information Management and
Strategy
DBA, Harvard University
Robyne S. Turner
Victor E. and Caroline E. Schutte/
Missouri Endowed Professor in
Urban Affairs
Chair, Department of Public Affairs
PhD, University of Florida
Sidne G. Ward
Associate Professor of Management
Information Systems
PhD, University of California-Los
Angeles
Nancy Weatherholt
Create Opportunities and Shape the Future
we hope your education at Bloch played
a positive role in shaping your future. Please
help us continue the momentum we are
building through all of the exciting new
programs and initiatives you’ve read about
in this issue of the Bloch magazine.
There are many ways to reconnect and
make a valuable gift to the Bloch School.
Time or money, large or small, no gift is
without impact.
To learn more about your role in shaping
the future for Bloch students, contact
Daniel Baker, director of development, at
816-235-2316 or e-mail bakerdani@umkc.edu.
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