Business, Law + Politics

On Friday, February 28th, the Fowler Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit hosted their inaugural Impact Investing Case Competition sponsored by EPOCH PI and McDonald Hopkins, LLC. Fourteen teams competed throughout the afternoon, presenting 10-minute presentations to a panel of judges....

In a memo of understanding (MOU) signed today, the HAT Community Foundation (HCF) established intentions to create a program to bring ethical innovation in the use of personal data to North America by exploring the establishment of a HAT-LAB at xLab at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case We...

Top companies like Apple and Google employ a positive approach to planning, pursuing goals, and solving problems called appreciative inquiry....

The contributors to this publication approach Conscious Business from a whole systems perspective. They ask the reader to think about how the role of business can contribute to well-being at a global level. They explore what well-being at a global level means at the deeply personal, family, and comm...

After competing in five rounds at the regional competition, the Jonathan M. Ault Mock Trial Team advanced to the national championship in the Texas Young Lawyers Association National Trial Competition for the second time in the past four years. Case Western Reserve hosted this year's regional compe...

On Wednesday March 4th, Fowler Center Business as an Agent of World Benefit Scholar, Katie Van Dusen, had the opportunity to sit down with social entrepreneur, John McMicken, CEO of Evergreen Cooperatives, to discuss his career journey and what it means to be an employee-owned business....

Displaced workers experienced a 20% increase in criminal charges the year after a downsizing Everyone knows that losing your job hurts, but the negative effects are not solely experienced by the displaced worker. Newly published research by a Case Western Reserve University economist finds that inv...

Last summer, third-year law student Kristina Aiad-Toss spent two months in El Salvador interning for International Partners in Mission (IPM), a non-profit that engages in community development projects abroad to help women and children in 66 countries. El Salvador is currently in the process of pro...

Weatherhead alumna and Fowler Center Advisory Board member, Nadya Zhexembayeva, advises companies to stop using the term 'innovation'......

Laszlo, speaking at UMASS Lowell, connected quantum physics to the changing role of business in society – arguing that sustainability, mindfulness and well-being are just as important as quarterly earnings, operational efficiency and shareholder returns......