Weatherhead School of Management
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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 27, 2016
Served key roles with White House Council of Economic Advisers and Department of Commerce
As they interact with Susan Helper in the classroom and on research, students at ӰƵ are getting a chance to learn first-hand what goes into national economic policy-making at the hi...
January 26, 2016
Interested in human resources or organizational behavior? Did you know that in Ohio, you can be fired for being lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender?
The LGBT Center and Office of Student Experience will hold Work It Out, a panel discussion with four LGBT-identified business professionals to discu...
January 19, 2016
ӰƵ’s Weatherhead School of Management and Women in Manufacturing (WiM) announced the creation of a Leadership Lab for Women in Manufacturing, which will provide executive education and training to WiM members in mid- to high-level management roles in manufacturing career...
January 15, 2016
Jess Shoop, a current PhD candidate in Management: Designing Sustainable Systems and senor project director in Information Technology Services, presented her research on the skills, behaviors and traits that characterize an effective senior leader within information technology organizations at the I...
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January 14, 2016
In the heat of competition, women value winning more than men.
Women also bid more in auctions than men—but only when competing against other women. Against men, women bid about the same as men competing against each other.
These discoveries, drawn from a new study co-written by an economist at Ca...
June 18, 2015
David Cooperrider, the Fairmount Santrol - David L. Cooperrider Professor in Appreciative Inquiry, recently visited Macquarie Graduate School of Management in Sydney, Australia to launch the Leadership Deep Dive program.
At the launch, Cooperrider presented "business as an agent of world benefit," ...
May 15, 2015
Jason N. Rucker was named this year's scholarship recipient of the Ohio Collegiate Plate Program, sponsored by The Alumni Association of ӰƵ. The CWRU Ohio License Plate Scholarship is awarded to a student who demonstrates a strong commitment to classmates and the univers...
May 14, 2015
ӰƵ Professor of Organizational Behavior Diana Bilimoria is attracting a global audience to her expertise on how women and men can achieve their full leadership potential in their workplaces.
Her massive open online course (MOOC), called Women in Leadership: Inspiring Po...
May 08, 2015
Mariana Carrera and Justin Gallagher, assistant professors of economics in the Weatherhead School of Management, recently published an op-ed in The Plain Dealer on the economic benefits of vaccinating children.
Carrera and Gallagher’s approach examined why people opt out of vaccinating children, at...
May 08, 2015
Distinguished University Professor Richard Boyatzis will host a free webinar, titled “Coaching with Compassion,” on Tuesday, May 12, from 4 to 5:30 p.m.
Using his well-established Intentional Change Theory (ICT) and complexity theory, Boyatzis has researched how people and organizations engage in s...