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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