Making the Elephant Dance Award

Award Recipient

Barbara Kawamoto
System

Barbara Kawamoto is bursar for UH System.

Kawamoto developed a new and more efficient way for students to pay their tuition via credit card.

The quarterly Making the Elephant Dance Award was created by President David McClain in 2008 to acknowledge individuals who successfully develop innovative ways to improve the university’s service to students and the community. It is named after the book Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance? Leading a Great Enterprise Through Dramatic Change, by former IBM CEO Lou Gerstner, who pushed the large corporate bureaucracy to be more responsive to customers and the marketplace.

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