Even in the early days of the subprime mortgage crisis, it was easy to understand one of the basic causes: the financial industry loaned too much money to the wrong people. The subprime crisis had exposed the limits of credit scores. The industry simply needed a better tool to assess lending risk. “It became obvious to us that a credit
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Companies often have to evolve before reaching their full potential. For Moneta Group, evolution has been constant during its nearly 140-year existence. Founded in 1869 as an insurance business, today’s Moneta Group is a client-centered financial services company managing more than $14 billion. Over the last three years, company revenues have increased by nearly 50 percent. Principal, Chairman, and Managing
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Although Columbia-based Bluebird Network may not be a household name, the company has quietly become part of many Missourians’ everyday lives. Over the last sixteen years, Bluebird has laid more than 6,000 miles of fiber-optic cable across Missouri and Illinois. Today, many residents and businesses—especially those in rural areas—rely on this high-speed network for everything from transmitting local hospital scans
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When David Wegenka joined with Staci Thornton, Patrick Hawkins, and Keith Hawkins in 2008 to buy IMKO from Jim Hawkins (Patrick and Keith’s father), they had big dreams for the small company. What started as one office in Saint Joseph in 1972, has now turned into five locations in Missouri and many more throughout the Midwest. Their explosive success in
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When your company is based on a love of the outdoors and a passion for fishing, you create an environment where people love to come to work and the business thrives. Lynn Reeves founded Do Outdoors – Lew’s Fishing in 2009 as a company dedicated to delivering innovative and durable products at a fair price. The company’s past six years
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Martin Mechanical is a Kansas City-area company that has been providing heating, air conditioning, and HVAC services since 1930. The company was founded during the Depression years, a time when more businesses were closing than opening. The heating and cooling industry has seen significant changes through the years and Martin Mechanical has evolved with these changes. At a time when
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Any attempt to describe the recent success at Cerner requires a thesaurus full of superlatives. The company started the year by completing its major $1.3 billion acquisition of Siemens Health Services. In one day, the Kansas City company’s workforce grew by nearly 40 percent. By mid-summer, Cerner’s massive new campus development began rising from the ground on what was once
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