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The Weatherhead School of Management is excited to announce its 2022 Alumni Awards winners: Kirk Neiswander (MGT '81), Duwain Pinder (MGT '10) and Sherry Sanger (MGT '95 and '16). Weatherhead launched the annual Alumni Awards in 1993 to establish a tradition of honoring living alumni who personify…

CWRU Adjunct Professor Steve Anway is one of five global winners of this year’s Law360 MVP Award in International Arbitration. The MVP Award honors attorneys that have distinguished themselves from their peers by securing hard-earned successes in high-stakes litigation, complex global matters and…

Max Mehlman, co-director of the Law-Medicine Center, is co-principal investigator on a project recently awarded a four-year $1.6 million grant by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Dean Jessica Berg, an expert on informed consent, is…

The Middle-Market Challenge for Growth Middle-market companies enjoy a uniquely advantageous position: They are small and agile enough to quickly innovate while simultaneously have the nimble resources to effectively support growth. Why then, do some find themselves stalled, unsure of how best to…

The Feb. 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and the international response has ushered in the most dangerous period since the height of the Cold War. Just this week, Russia mobilized 300,000 troops, organized a sham referendum on independence in occupied Ukrainian territory and threatened the use of…

The Business of Building A Better World by David Cooperrider and Audrey Selian, published by Berrett-Koehler in 2021, is announced to be on the shortlist for the getAbstract International Book Award 2022 in the Business Impact catagory.

National Hispanic Heritage Month takes place each year from Sept. 15 through Oct. 15. In honor of the month, we are highlighting members of the Weatherhead School of Management community who are of Hispanic heritage to shed light on their experiences at the school and learn how they like to…

For nearly thirty years, Case Western Reserve University School of Law’s Federal Judicial Externship program has provided the opportunity for hundreds of students to extern with federal judges in the summer after their first year of law school. The program is one of the many legacies that the late…

Third-year law student Emma Geesaman won first place in the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Real Property, Trust, and Estate Law for her paper, “The Ownership of Fossils Found on Private Property: Are They Part of the Mineral Estate or the Surface Estate?” The paper, which centers around…

Receiving a Fulbright Scholar Award has given Associate Professor of Marketing Rakesh Niraj the opportunity to immerse himself in teaching and research in a new place outside of the U.S. In August, Niraj began his 10-month fellowship in Mauritius, a country located in East Africa. The Fulbright…