Business, Law + Politics

Last January, Michael Goldberg became the inaugural executive director of Case Western Reserve's Veale Institute for Entrepreneurship. He came to the post steeped in academic and business experience. An associate professor of design and innovation at the Weatherhead School of Management, Goldberg…

Cassandra Burke Robertson, the John Deaver Drinko—BakerHostetler Professor of Law and director of the Center for Professional Ethics has been appointed by the Supreme Court of Ohio to its Commission on the Rules of Practice and Procedure. The Supreme Court of Ohio is responsible for prescribing…

Ramona Hood (MGT '16) was seven weeks into her job as president and CEO of FedEx Custom Critical—a subsidiary that ships the most fragile and urgently needed goods across North America—when COVID-19 started interrupting business operations throughout the country.

On January 21, Jonathan H. Adler, the Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law and director of the Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law, participated in a webinar on "The Future of Environmental and Energy Policy in the Biden Administration."  Adler pointed out that the BIden…

2020 has been hard on everyone, business owners included. Now that 2021 is upon us, how do we pick up the pieces and rebuild going forward? After what has seemed like a never-ending free-fall of challenge, complexity and ambiguity, appreciative inquiry may be the most valuable strategy to help your…

People used to routinely ask R. L. Shankar to explain blockchain technology. But, because of the pandemic, they're increasingly aware of its benefits.

AIM2Flourish is the world’s first higher-education curriculum incorporating the UN Sustainable Development Goals and businesses working toward a better world. Roberta Baskin, Megan Buchter, and George Dionne discuss the foundations of the program, its global reach, the art of appreciative inquiry,…

COVID-19 undoubtedly had negative effects on the world. Students were impacted differently–much of their studies were suddenly transferred online, on-campus activities canceled, and summer internships and jobs postponed. Andrew Krauter, a second-year full-time MBA student, was hit hard by the…

For nearly 130 years, each incoming first-year law student at Case Western Reserve University began their legal education in the fall. Following a series of administrative reforms to increase flexibility in accommodating and recruiting students, the law school welcomed an inaugural spring class…

Visiting Professor Katharine Van Tassel and Professor Sharona Hoffman, co-director of the Law-Medicine Center, were published on Jan. 20 in the New England Journal of Medicine with co-author Carmel Shachar, executive director of Harvard Law School’s Petrie-Flom Center.  The article, “Covid-19…