Business, Law + Politics

Fowler Center Advisory Board member, Roberta Baskin, presented the AIM2Flourish program in a keynote address to a 30-team international competition of business school students focused on innovation and the SDGs at the Loyola Marymount University International Business Ethics and Sustainability Case…

Weatherhead School of Management has officially partnered with the Forte Foundation to launch its Rising Star Program for undergraduates at Case Western Reserve University. Forte is an organization dedicated to launching women into fulfilling, significant careers through access to business…

On Tuesday April 9, 2019 Business Volunteers Unlimited (BVU), an organization that connects for-profit companies with nonprofits needing volunteers here in the Northeast Ohio region, hosted their annual Business Summit at the Tinkham Veale University Center at Case Western Reserve University…

On Thursday, April 4, 2019, the Fowler Center had the opportunity to present their “Employees for the Global Goals” workshop to the Provost Scholars. The Provost Scholars program is a partnership between Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) and East Cleveland City Schools. The Provost Scholars…

On March 19, the Fowler Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit and Weatherhead Net Impact chapter co-hosted the CWRU Office of Energy & Sustainability for a Lunch & Learn about the university’s commitment to a neutral climate impact by the year 2050. Students asked many questions about…

Efforts to ban such questions show promise to ease re-entry into workforce for increasing number of Americans with criminal histories Former prisoners have a better chance of getting hired if a job application doesn’t include questions about criminal history, according to new employment…

On March 25, Amal Abu-Alkom—advocate for female entrepreneurship and education—will speak at Case Western Reserve University and meet with students Last May, Jessica Stoner, then a first-year student at Case Western Reserve University, traveled overseas for the first time. She and her Weatherhead…

$1 million federal grant seeks to aid inmates re-entering society People who re-enter society from prison with unresolved issues are more likely to commit more crime and head right back to jail, according to government statistics. A new partnership between the Case Western Reserve University…

The Dodd-Frank Act, enacted in 2010 to promote economic stability and protect consumers in response to the 2008 global financial crisis, is showing mixed results, according to a new study by Case Western Reserve University. Most banks in the United States are not taking fewer risks, while others…

The Human Trafficking Program at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law is expanding its community outreach, education and survivor identification with a new round of state funding. The Ohio Attorney General’s Victims of Crime Act Fund (VOCA) recently awarded the initiative $425,000 to…