MBAA Conference

In 2000 twelve formal organizations with approximately 700 active members make up the MBAA. These organizations represent a variety of disciplines, including accounting, economics, finance and insurance, health administration, human resources, information systems, international business, legal studies, management, marketing, operations management and entrepreneurship, and case studies, www.bizcoach.org

At the 1999 annual conference, participants from 39 of the 50 states, and many foreign countries attended. The Midwest Business Administration was conceived at the 1964 meeting of the American Economic Association in Chicago. The MBAA's inaugural meeting - 1965 - was planned by a committee consisting of Schuyler F. Otteson and L.L. Waters of Indiana University and Sidney Feldman of the University of Kansas. Their immediate objective was to ensure that those who wanted to participate in the fledgling disciplines of business administration would have a forum in which to do so. The first meeting was held on the occasion of the Midwest Economic Association meeting in Kansas City, Missouri. About 200 attended that meeting and were treated to eight sessions involving ten presenters. Topics included economic development, marketing, quantitative decision making, transportation, and public utilities