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The Bloch School’s Council for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and the Institut e for Entrepreneurship and Innovationannounced Blank, co-founder of , as the recipient in a releasew Thursday. Blank will be honored as the 24th-annualk Entrepreneur of the Year AwardsDinner Oct. 8 at the . Blanjk helped build The Home Depot (NYSE: HD) into the world’sd largest home improvement retaileer andthe second-largest retailer in the Unitedr States. He co-founded the company in 1978 and retirecdas co-chairman in 2001.
“By honorinv entrepreneurs and innovators likeArthur Blank, alongf with our regional and student entrepreneurs, we marry the legacy and futurr of entrepreneurship in Kansas City and around the world,” Lee Bolman, interi m dean at the Bloch School, said in the “The Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovationn at Bloch plays an integral role in developinbg tomorrow’s entrepreneurs — people who will builxd new business, create and provide the growth and sustainability needexd for a successful future.
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