Blaine McCormick, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor
Business Insights from Gospel Parables: The (Rich) Fool
When Jesus wanted to teach a lesson about his new Kingdom, he often told a story about business. This session, lead by Dr. Blaine McCormick, takes a new look at Jesus’s Parable of the Fool in Luke 12. If you think you know how this story plays out, this session might offer you a few new surprises as you work to change this Fool into a Wise Steward.
Session Speaker
Blaine McCormick is an award-winning Management professor at the Hankamer School of Business at Baylor University. For many years, McCormick taught business acumen in the first-year business course to almost 500 students each semester. In the spring of 2009, Inc. magazine named his course one of the nine best entrepreneurship courses in the United States.
A nationally recognized scholar on the business practices of Benjamin Franklin, McCormick is interviewed frequently across all forms of media including the Forbes, Time, public radio and ABC World News Tonight. He often travels to developing countries to teach business lessons to undereducated entrepreneurs using only a bottle of Coca-Cola as a teaching aid.
A native Texan, McCormick grew up working in the cotton fields of West Texas. Before joining the Baylor faculty, he worked in the oil and gas industry. He lives in Woodway with his wife, Sarah.
