At Weatherhead School of Management, we aim to relentlessly carry out our mission by working toward our vision in a culture defined by our values.
Mission
Our mission at Weatherhead is to transform the world’s most complex challenges into humanity’s greatest breakthroughs.
- Shaping leaders who thrive in complexity and drive intentional change
- Sparking discovery that translates into impactful solutions
- Mobilizing our community to scale impact
Vision
The Weatherhead School of Management is a personal, interconnected, pathbreaking academic community that catalyzes change at the nexus of business, humanity, and technology.
Values
These values form the strategic foundation of our institutional identity. They’re not aspirational ideals, but the deliberate behaviors that operationalize our mission and distinguish our approach to management education.
- Curious: Drive transformational discovery
- Inquire openly across boundaries. Probe convention and invite dissent. Run small tests to validate assumptions. Challenge defensive positions. Make methods transparent, not obscure. Stay humble about what we know and hungry to learn..
- Courageous: Take calculated risks and drive breakthroughs that improve lives and strengthen communities.
- Act despite uncertainty. Say difficult things kindly. Make small bets and learn quickly. Raise risks early with proposed solutions. Be intentional about impact—make work useful and used, not just interesting. Start with the problem and audience. Seek evidence over claims.
- Collaborative: Unite diverse perspectives across boundaries to tackle truly complex problems
- Build with students, colleagues, alumni, partners, and community. Communicate early and often. Prioritize co-creation over individual work. Share knowledge openly and ethically. Invest in relationships and care for each other. Couple ideation with pilots to test ideas together.