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If you’re in the business of higher-education, the numbers at first glance may be sobering: • According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the 25 fastest-growing occupations nationwide between now and 2020 include exactly three jobs that require more than…
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Loggers. Truck drivers. Construction workers. Lots of job settings can—and occasionally do—entail life-or-death consequences. But even those cases, the worst outcomes, thankfully, are anomalies. Health care, somewhat incongruously, is a different story. The “life” part of it—the against-the-odds births, the…
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Prof. Michael Song of the Henry W. Bloch School of Management at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, has resigned, the university said in a news release issued this afternoon. It comes less than a week after the Princeton Review…
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Prime Healthcare, the California hospital company that entered the Kansas City market in 2012 with acquisition of Providence Medical Center and St. John Hospital, has expanded its footprint here with by completing the acquisition of St. Joseph Medical Center and St. Mary’s Medical Center. That…
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The stories of 50 Missourians You Should Know are the stuff of inspiration, no matter what their vocation. Some find fulfillment at the molecular level, advancing the cause of science in the University of Missouri system. Some find it on…
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The recent buzz that the region's largest private company, Dairy Farmers of America, would river-hop to new offices in Wyandotte County was spot-on: The milk cooperative confirmed today that it would build its new global headquarters in Kansas City, Kansas. With…
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Just days after a state-ordered review determined that UMKC's Bloch School of Management could justify its national rankings of graduate and undergraduate entrepreneurship programs as among the Top 25 in the nation, the Princeton Review has withdrawn the designations it bestowed in…
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Olathe Medical Center announced today it will be undergoing the largest expansion in its history. Four significant construction projects will be underway this year across OMC’s 250-acre campus: a new four-story obstetrics wing with a Level II neonatal intensive care…
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An independent review released this morning by the University of Missouri System Board of Curators concludes that UMKC's Bloch School of Management's 2012 ranking as the nation's top program for innovation management research met the standards for generally acceptable professional practices.…
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McCownGordon announced today that it had completed implementation of an Employee Stock Ownership Plan, making the Kansas City construction firm 100 percent employee-owned. The move was effective Jan. 1. In a news release, the company said the move was part of a succession…
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