Weatherhead At A Glance at Weatherhead School of Management

Timeline

1939 — School of Business Administration established
1953 — Cleveland College relocated to University Circle; Cleveland College School of Business officially recognized by Western Reserve University
1957 — First PhD in operations research in the world awarded by Case Institute of Technology
1959 — Case Institute of Technology’s Engineering Administration Department named Department of Management Science
1965 — First PhDs in organizational behavior in the world awarded by Case Institute of Technology
1967 — Federation of Case Institute of Technology and Western Reserve University formed Case Western Reserve University
1970 — Department of Management created
1976 — Full-time MBA established
1980 — School dedicated as the Weatherhead School of Management
1988 — Enterprise Hall, Weatherhead’s first facility, completed
1994 — George S. Dively Building, home of Weatherhead Executive Education, completed
2002 — Peter B. Lewis Building completed

First graduate disciplines in organizational behavior and operations research
World's first PhDs in organizational behavior and operations research
First competency-based MBA program in U.S. for leadership and emotional intelligence
Nation's first doctoral program for practicing executives
First to explore design principles for management innovation
First business school to introduce leadership assessment in its MBA curriculum

Appreciative inquiry invented at Weatherhead by David Cooperrider, PhD, Fairmount Santrol Professor of Social Entrepreneurship
Fowler Center for Sustainable Value founded in 2009
Department of Design & Innovation established through a merger of the Marketing and Policy Studies Department and the Information Systems Department in 2013

Undergraduate degree programs: BS in Accounting, BS in Management with a finance or marketing major or a Dean's Approved Major, BA in economics
MBA programs: MBA (full-time, part-time, and global), Executive MBA (EMBA)
Specialty master's programs: Master of Science in Management-Finance (MSM-Finance), Master of Science in Management-Operations Research and Supply Chain Management (MSM-OR/SCM), Master of Science in Management-Healthcare (MSM-Healthcare), Master of Accountancy (MAcc), Master of Science in Positive Organization Development & Change (MPOD)
Doctoral programs: Doctor of Management (DM); PhD in Management with specializations in accountancy, Designing Sustainable Systems, or Design & Innovation; PhD in organizational behavior, and PhD in operations research
Joint offerings: Master of Engineering and Management (offered jointly with Case School of Engineering), EMBA Nonprofit Certificate (offered jointly with the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences)

Full-time faculty: 68 (71% tenured, 29% non-tenured); 91% PhD, 28.5% women, 37% international
Full-time staff: 83
Students: 1,211
Alumni: 17,000+