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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

Sales Spree Continues; Freightquote Sold to Minnesota Company

Freightquote, one of the Kansas City region's entrepreneurial shining stars for the past 15 years, is about to get a new owner: C.H. Robinson, based in Eden Prairie, Minn., has announced that it will acquire Freightquote for $365 million. Pending approval from regulators,… more

It’s Thanksgiving. Give thanks, or say thanks?

It’s Thanksgiving! It’s the coolest holiday of the year to me. I love Thanksgiving. Food, family, you name it. It’s a time to be thankful. But I want to challenge you on the way that you’re thankful, and I want… more

Kansas City Jewish Day School, community express sympathy for “family” killed in Jerusalem attack

OVERLAND PARK – Kansas City’s Jewish community has once again been touched by tragedy – this time in the heart of Israel. Rabbis Kalman Levine and Mosheh Twersky were among four religious men brutally gunned down in a Jerusalem synagogue… more

Dairy Farmers of America, Chinese Partner to Build $100M Kansas Plant

Dairy Farmers of America has issued a statement confirming that it will partner with one of China's largest dairy companies to build a milk-powder plant in Kansas. Various media reports put the value of the plant at $100 million, but… more