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From Classroom to Cocoa Fields: How One Weatherhead Alum is Powering a Zero Waste Future
Big news for Cocoa Potash, the social enterprise co-founded by Weatherhead alum Ithabeleng Makhetha (BS ’24). They have been named one of the top 24 teams for the Hult Prize 2025 Global Accelerator. Out of 54 incredible startups in this year’s Incubator, they have been selected to join the in…
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January 07, 2019
Michael Goldberg, assistant professor of design and innovation, was recently elected to the ideastream board of trustees.
Goldberg was one of four new trustees named to the board.
ideastream is a publicly supported and locally owned multimedia source for the Northeast Ohio region....
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January 04, 2019
J.B. Silvers, the John R. Mannix Medical Mutual of Ohio Professor of Health Care Finance, recently wrote about a Texas judge’s ruling that the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate is unconstitutional.
It’s widely believed the ruling will not stand on appeal, but Silvers explained the impact unc...
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December 21, 2018
Poets & Quants named Karen Braun, professor of accountancy, one of the top 50 undergraduate business professors in the United States.
Braun also has won the Weatherhead Undergraduate Teaching Award four times since joining the university in 2006.
She is widely known for her book, Managerial Accoun...
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December 12, 2018
To grow sales, more companies are teaming up to attract each other’s customers—and persuade their existing customers to buy more—by creating a positive association with another brand. Well-known alliances include McDonald’s Happy Meals with Disney toys and Dell PCs with Intel processors.
While such...
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December 07, 2018
After Enyou Wang’s first acting class at ӰƵ two years ago, the instructor, theater lecturer Anaya Farrell, pulled him aside. She immediately recognized his innate fashion sense and authentic presence—that inexplicable “it” factor—and asked if he was a model. He wasn’t, b...
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November 30, 2018
The ӰƵ-based awards include companies in a variety of sectors, including consulting, financial services, medical devices, real estate and digital media
Roger Zona, founder of TPI Efficiency
Cleveland-based budget-consulting firm TPI Efficiency—with sales growth topping...
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November 27, 2018
Electronic health records (EHRs) produce savings for hospitals by reducing the average length of patient stays—but only in facilities meeting the highest federal standards for implementing the technology, according to new research from ӰƵ.
The findings are significant f...
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November 26, 2018
At our Thanksgiving table, my husband raised his glass in a toast. Present were all four of the children in our blended family and their partners, our five grandchildren, plus miscellaneous in-laws. The table was loaded with dishes contributed by each family. The little ones were already consuming t...
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November 13, 2018
The university community is invited to the 45th annual David A. Bowers Economic Forecast Luncheon featuring keynote speaker Ellen Zentner, chief U.S. economist and a managing director at Morgan Stanley.
The David A. Bowers Economic Forecast Luncheon gives a near-term economic outlook of emerging tr...
November 08, 2018
Alex Huang, MD, PhD
Leading cancer researcher, Alex Huang MD, PhD, has been awarded a three-year, $1.35 million grant from the St. Baldrick’s Foundation and the Osteosarcoma Collaborative to develop new ways to treat osteosarcoma, a rare cancer that begins in the bone.
Huang, who is a pr...