Catherine Shenoy, PhD, MBA, is Director of the Applied Portfolio Management program at the University of Kansas School of Business. She has worked for the U.S. State Department as a Foreign Service Officer in Washington, DC, and Tunis, Tunisia. Since 1993, she has taught accounting, statistics, and finance at the University of Kansas. Shenoy's research areas include corporate governance, corporate financial policies, and applications of artificial intelligence to portfolio analysis. Kent C. McCarthy, MBA, is President and Chief Investment Officer of Jayhawk Capital Management. In 1994, he retired from Goldman Sachs, returned to Kansas, and founded the Applied Portfolio Management class.… McCarthy taught the class full-time until 1995, when he founded Jayhawk Capital Management, which manages hedge funds and private equity funds primarily focused on the Chinese equity markets. He continues as an Executive Lecturer in the APM class.