KANSAS CITY—This fall, the University of Missouri-KansasCity will open the $32 million, 58,000-square-footHenry W. Bloch Executive Hall for Entrepreneurship andInnovation. Part of the university's Henry W.Bloch School of Management, the new three-story glass andterracotta building will help 1,800 graduate and undergraduatestudents learn by doing, officials say, by providing a simulatedtrading floor, design lab and behavioral science researchspace.
“The new Bloch Hall is more like a design school than a businessschool,” said the UMKC Bloch School Dean Teng-keeTan. “While there will still be traditional classroom andcase-method learning, the Bloch School is striving to breaktraditional molds by inventing and propagating new methods ofexperiential learning.”
For example, the behavioral lab allows students to conducton-the-spot experiments to gain insights into consumer behavior.And a new finance lab, which includes the trading floor, will allowthe simulation of real-time market transactions.
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Brian J. Rogal
Brian J. Rogal is a Chicago-based freelance writer with years of experience as an investigative reporter and editor, most notably at The Chicago Reporter, where he concentrated on housing issues. He also has written extensively on alternative energy and the payments card industry for national trade publications.
