Executive-in-Residence, Visiting Instructor
Phone: 816-235-2730 | hudsondm@umkc.edu
335 Bloch School
Henry W. Bloch School of Business and Public Administration
University of Missouri-Kansas City
5100 Rockhill Road
Kansas City, MO 64110-2499
Doranne Hudson is an executive-in- residence at The Bloch School. She teaches undergraduate, MBA and executive MBA courses in leadership as well as non-degree executive education courses and workshops to a wide variety of businesses and organizations, including Sprint, H&R Block, Fleishman-Hillard and Hallmark. Her research and teaching interests include organizational influence and political agility, leader self-awareness and development, networks and social capital, leading change, and leader values. As a full-time Bloch faculty member, she is also active in curriculum development, strategic marketing, and faculty selection.
Doranne’s corporate experience includes 23 years of marketing and general management at The Gillette Company and at Hallmark Cards, where she was senior vice-president. In addition to brand management and new product development, she had major line and P&L responsibilities, including leading Hallmark’s 5,000-store Gold Crown retail division and overseeing four of Hallmark’s subsidiary companies. Hudson was named a Hallmark corporate officer in 1995, and she served on the corporate executive council, the North America management team, and the Hallmark U. K. board of directors before retiring in 2001.
Hudson received a BA in psychology from Duke University, summa cum laude, and an MBA from Harvard University. She currently serves on the executive committee of the UMKC Board of Trustees and on the board of directors for the Central Exchange, Kansas City Public Television, and Midwest Research Institute.
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