Dr. J. Kirk Ring

I'm so proud of my Godchild who has just completed his dissertation, Stakeholder in the Family Firm, and will graduate from Mississippi State University with a Doctorate of Philosophy in strategic management. His research focused on entrepreneurship and family businesses. He holds an assistant professor faculty position at the W. Frank Baron School of Business at Wichita State University in Kansas, where he teaches strategic management. He is a 1996 graduate of St. Aloysius High School here in Vicksburg and is the son of Charles and Jeanette Ring. Jeanette has been my best friend since back in the early seventies and we have remained the closest of friends through the years. Jeanette and her husband have raised three fine young men. Congratulation John Kirk!