The 2023 Arkansas Enterprise Corridor of Fame inductees (l-r) Curt Bradbury, chief working officer of Stephens Inc.; Judy R. McReynolds, chairman, president and CEO of ArcBest; Ross M. Whipple, president and CEO of Horizon Capital Companions LLLP; and E. Fletcher Lord Jr., chairman of the board of Bumper to Bumper/Crow-Burlingame Co. stand with Walton Faculty Dean Matt Waller.
Give sturdy enterprise leaders the popularity they deserve.
There’s nonetheless time to appoint achieved Arkansans – by delivery or by selection – who’ve made significant contributions to their trade, neighborhood and state for induction into the Arkansas Enterprise Corridor of Fame. Nominations for the 2025 class can be accepted till Thursday, Aug. 15.
Since its creation in 1999, the Arkansas Enterprise Corridor of Fame has grow to be certainly one of our state’s most prestigious honors for enterprise leaders. This previous February, 4 enterprise leaders have been acknowledged within the class of 2024:
- John L. Conner Jr., president, Holden-Conner Firm
- Gary C. George, chairman, George’s, Inc.
- Eric Jackson, senior vice chairman, Oaklawn
- Dhu C. Thompson, proprietor, US Irrigation; former proprietor/president, Delta Plastics and Revolution Bag
Take heed to the inductees share their paths to turning into trade leaders right here.
Choice standards and nomination kinds for the 2025 class can be found at walton.uark.edu/abhf. For questions concerning the shape or course of, contact the Sam M. Walton Faculty of Enterprise Workplace of Exterior Relations at (479) 575-6146 or e-mail [email protected].
The honorees, chosen by an impartial group of enterprise leaders, can be inducted into the Arkansas Enterprise Corridor of Fame on Feb. 14, 2025, on the Statehouse Conference Middle in Little Rock.
Concerning the Sam M. Walton Faculty of Enterprise: Based in 1926, the Sam M. Walton Faculty of Enterprise is AACSB-accredited and ranks among the many high enterprise faculties within the nation. Walton Faculty is the biggest faculty on the College of Arkansas, serving almost 9,000 undergraduate, grasp’s and doctoral college students. Walton Faculty is acknowledged amongst U.S. Information & World Report’s 2023 “Greatest Enterprise Colleges,” and its undergraduate provide chain administration program was ranked No. 1 in North America by Gartner. The faculty’s Grasp of Enterprise Administration program was additionally ranked No. 11 for finest return on funding by The Wall Avenue Journal. The Princeton Evaluation ranked the faculty’s graduate entrepreneurship program as one of many high within the nation for the primary time within the 2022-23 12 months. And in partnership with the International Campus, the U of A’s on-line enterprise diploma program ranked No. 12 nationally amongst 214 establishments by U.S. Information in 2023.
Concerning the College of Arkansas: As Arkansas’ flagship establishment, the U of A gives an internationally aggressive schooling in additional than 200 educational packages. Based in 1871, the U of A contributes greater than $2.2 billion to Arkansas’ economic system by means of the instructing of recent information and abilities, entrepreneurship and job improvement, discovery by means of analysis and inventive exercise whereas additionally offering coaching for skilled disciplines. The Carnegie Basis classifies the U of A among the many few U.S. schools and universities with the best stage of analysis exercise. U.S. Information & World Report ranks the U of A among the many high public universities within the nation. See how the U of A works to construct a greater world at Arkansas Analysis and Financial Improvement Information.
