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UMKC Rankings Issue Prompts Another Resignation

Less than a week after the resignation of the top official embroiled in the controversy over the Bloch School of Management's rankings for entrepreneurial education, a second faculty member has resigned. UMKC announced this afternoon that John Norton had resigned as associate… more

Michael Song Resigns at UMKC in Wake of Bloch School Ranking Loss

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… more

It’s Official: Dairy Farmers of America Says It Will Build New HQ in Wyandotte County

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… more

UMKC Loses 2014 Princeton Review Rankings

    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of graduate and undergraduate entrepreneurship programs as among the Top 25 in the nation, the Princeton Review has withdrawn the designations it bestowed in… more

Report to MU Curators Supports Rankings of Bloch School at UMKC

     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.… more

BATS Extends Its Global, Market Reach With $365 Million Acquisition of Hotspot FX

Officials with BATS Global Markets said this morning that the equities-trading firm would acquire Hotspot FX, an institutional spot foreign exchange market, from KCG Holdings for $365 million. The deal, which expected to close before summer, would give BATS greater capacity for non-equity trading businesses and a… more

Epiq Systems to Relocate New York City-Based eDiscovery and Corporate Restructuring Businesses to New Midtown Headquarters

 Epiq Systems, Inc., a leading global provider of integrated technology solutions and services for the legal profession, today announced that the majority of its New York City operations will move to new centralized offices located at 777 Third Avenue by… more

UMKC Provost Hackett to Virginia Commonwealth

Gail Hackett, Ph.D., executive vice chancellor and provost at the University of Missouri-Kansas City since 2008, has accepted an appointment as provost of Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. Hackett will begin her duties at VCU on March 1. VCU has… more

Businesses, Northwest, MCC, Northland CAPS, Northland schools celebrate innovation partnership designation, receipt of grant

Representatives of the Northland Center for Advanced Professional Studies (Northland CAPS), which includes Kansas City area businesses and six Northland school districts, as well as Metropolitan Community College (MCC) and Northwest Missouri State University gathered today at Cerner World Headquarters… more

VML promotes Eric Campbell to president

VML today, Dec. 11, announced the appointment of Eric Campbell as the agency’s new president. Jon Cook has served as the global CEO since 2011 and president since 2007. With the promotion of Campbell to president, Cook will continue as the… more