A longtime Springfield business magnate will lead Drury University’s business program for the next few months.
The university on Dec. 21 announced that Jack Stack, president and CEO of SRC Holdings Corporation, will serve as interim dean of its Breech School of Business Administration. Starting on Jan. 1, he will lead the program for about six months, until a permanent dean can start for the fall 2024 semester.
He will be working with former dean Jeff Zimmerman, who stepped away from the post to focus on teaching and the university’s reaccreditation process for the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, according to a press release. That accreditation is a designation held by only about 5% of the world’s business programs.
Rita Baron, chair of Drury’s Board of Trustees, said the university is proud to have Stack in the post, and looks forward to collaboration and innovation during his temporary term.
“A distinguished member of our community, he not only brings a wealth of professional experience but also a deep understanding of our local ethos,” Baron said in the release. “As a true pioneer, Jack is poised to lead our business school into a future of unprecedented success, setting the standard for excellence and inspiring the next generation of leaders from within our very own community.”
Stack is a national icon for business building. The author of “The Great Game of Business” and “A Stake in the Outcome” has earned accolades from Fortune and Inc magazines. SRC, the company he founded in 1983, has become known as the birthplace of open-book management, a system that shows how every employee contributes to profit margins.
He served on Drury’s Board of Trustees from 2004 to 2013, and is currently on the university’s presidential search committee.
The Breech School merges business with aspects of technology, design and science, offering programs in accounting, business economics, cyber-risk management, finance, integrated business, and management and marketing, as well as a master’s degree in business administration.
In the press release, Stack said he is looking forward to developing “a treasure chest” of educational opportunities.
“This is an opportunity for us to better understand the relationship between learning, decision-making and outcomes,” Stack said. “We are always looking for the possibilities of finding learning opportunities in uncertain environments.”
Editor's note: SRC Holdings is a founding partner of the Hauxeda. He is currently appearing in a series of testimonial ads noting his support for reading the Daily Citizen.
