Spouse(s) Marion Helzberg Organizations founded H&R Block Siblings Richard Bloch | Role Businessman Name Henry Bloch | |
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Full Name Henry Wollman Bloch Born July 30, 1922 (age 101) ( 1922-07-30 ) Kansas City, Missouri, United States Alma mater • University of Michigan
• University of Missouri–Kansas City Occupation Founder and businessman Children Robert Bloch
Thomas Bloch
Mary Jo Bloch Brown
Elizabeth Bloch Uhlmann Relatives Richard Bloch (brother) Education University of Michigan, Harvard Business School | ||
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Henry Wollman Bloch (born July 30, 1922) is an American businessman and philanthropist. He is the co-founder and (since 2000) the chairman emeritus of the American tax-preparation company H&R Block. Henry and his brother, Richard Bloch, founded H&R Block in 1955 in Kansas City, Missouri.
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- Henry w bloch executive hall for entrepreneurship and innovation
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- Early life and education
- Career
- Personal life and honors
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Early life and education
Bloch was born to a Jewish family in Kansas City where he attended Southwest High School, and was an undergraduate at University of Missouri–Kansas City. He later attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, graduating in 1944. Through the U.S. Army Air Corps he received graduate training at the Harvard Business School in Boston, Massachusetts.
Career
Bloch founded the H&R Block company with his brother Richard in 1955.
Personal life and honors
In 1951, Bloch married Marion Helzberg; they had four children: Robert Bloch, Thomas Bloch, Mary Jo Bloch Brown, and Elizabeth Bloch Uhlmann and lived in the Kansas City metropolitan area.
The Henry Wollman Bloch Fountain in front of Kansas City's Union Station is named in his honor, as is the Henry W. Bloch School of Management at the University of Missouri–Kansas City and the Bloch Building, a major addition to Kansas City's Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
Bloch was inducted into the Junior Achievement's U.S. Business Hall of Fame in 2001.