ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the social potential of the teaching mission of business schools. To provide insight into service-related—or service-learning—experiences in business schools, it focuses on a national program—the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC) Business School Network. The Initiative is a recently established program that is funded at both local and national levels. The chapter draws on the experience of ICIC’s current model program in Kansas City for which the author’s home institution, the Bloch School of Business and Public Administration at the University of Missouri at Kansas City, was the initiating partner. The ICIC in Kansas City has activated three of the ICIC’s programs: research, Advisors, and University Alliance teams. Good business education ultimately involves a partnership between the business and academic communities. Service-related learning, at its best, simultaneously delivers both demonstrated value to the community and learning to students and faculty.
