Business, Law + Politics

Congratulations to first-year law students Sierra Lipscomb and Makela Hayford for a fantastic finish at the 1L Law Student Diversity Case Competition hosted by the University of Cincinnati College of Law and Keating Muething & Klekamp. Lipscomb and Hayford placed third out of 18 teams from eight tr...

One grant, two Weatherhead undergraduate students and the desire to make an impact on the world. That’s all it took for Kareem Agag and Aayush Parikh, both senior economics majors, to change the lives of students in a small rural town in India this summer. As Great Lakes Energy Institute Fellows, ...

Professor Max Mehlman, director of the Law-Medicine Center, recently co-authored an article in the Pathogens and Immunity journal with Dr. Michael Lederman, titled, “Compulsory Immunization Protects Against Infection: What Law and Society Can Do.” The article examines potential legal remedies to co...

Each semester, the finance department holds an award ceremony to recognize its outstanding students, in the categories of leadership and academic excellence. This year, student Sicheng Chen received the Student Leadership Award and Wan Liu was named an Outstanding Student in Finance. Faculty member...

Studies show that delaying criminal background checks in the hiring process can boost the job prospects of a worker pool with particularly stubborn rate of unemployment: ex-convicts looking to re-enter the labor market. Now, a newly passed U.S. law—based on research and advocacy by a Case Western ...

In 2013, Felipe Gomez was a promising engineering student at Case Western Reserve University with a big idea – increase fuel efficiency in jet engines through innovative use of plasma in the fuel injection process. Leveraging the considerable university assets available to assist student entrepren...

Bianca Smith, a Case Western Reserve double alumna who served as the Director of Baseball Operations from 2013-17, was hired by the Boston Red Sox as a minor league coach, becoming the first Black woman to coach in professional baseball....

For the second consecutive year, Ellen Zentner, chief U.S. Economist and managing director at Morgan Stanley, presented at the Weatherhead School of Management’s David A. Bowers Economic Forecast Luncheon. More than 200 attendees received an insider’s view of the near-term U.S. economic landscape d...

Last week, 100 companies from Northeast Ohio were recognized by the Weatherhead School of Management at the annual black-tie awards banquet for their example of leadership, growth and success in the region. Established in 1988, the Weatherhead 100 awards are the premier celebration of the companies...

Yes, the year’s end looms over our heads weeks before it actually happens, with accumulating tasks on our to-do list. There is the urgent and the important; the postponed and what we don’t want to carry over to next year, and what would be so nice to finish....