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
Weatherhead Firsts
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
Notable Accomplishments
Appreciative inquiry invented at Weatherhead by David Cooperrider, PhD, Fairmount Minerals 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
Degrees
- 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/SC), Master of Science in Management-Healthcare(MSM-Healthcare), Master of Accountancy (MAcc), Master of Science in Positive Organization Development and 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)
People
- 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+
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