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In the 2023 Fall semester an interdisciplinary group of MBA and JD students devised a regional fund-of-fund structure that would take advantage of recent regulatory changes in the Small Business Administration’s Small Business Investment Company program. The new rules were introduced to increase access to capital for entrepreneurs that are underserved by more traditional forms of small business investments. The students developed an investment strategy to focus on retail and hospitality businesses and convert those to employee-owned as mechanism for both increasing investment and closing the wealth gap among the employees in target companies. For more information on this project, contact Prof. Evan Absher at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

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The CLEI is a vehicle for multidisciplinary collaborators to form and deploy teams that promote the use of entrepreneurship and innovation in providing high-quality education, addressing societal needs with a diversity of knowledge bases and perspectives, and producing thoughtful and effective solutions to generate public good. UMKC’s CLEI is led by the Law School because laws are involved in virtually all challenging endeavors and the Law School emphasizes training context-aware, creative, brave, and generous lawyers to join in teams that are instruments of positive change in communities, businesses, policy, research, and the arts. We exemplify that belief by partnering with leaders from all fields in common missions to make all of the communities we serve more prosperous.