Weatherhead School of Management
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From Classroom to Cocoa Fields: How One Weatherhead Alum is Powering a Zero Waste Future
Big news for Cocoa Potash, the social enterprise co-founded by Weatherhead alum Ithabeleng Makhetha (BS ’24). They have been named one of the top 24 teams for the Hult Prize 2025 Global Accelerator. Out of 54 incredible startups in this year’s Incubator, they have been selected to join the in…
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Case Western Reserve University economist joins national AI labor study backed by $1.6M Sloan Foundation grant
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December 12, 2012
Lucille S. Mayne, emerita professor of banking and finance at the Weatherhead School of Management, passed away Nov. 26 at age 88.
Until her retirement in 1994, Mayne taught at Case Western Reserve University for 23 years in the areas of financial institutions, financial management and money and ca...
December 11, 2012
CLEVELAND - Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and AstraZeneca, a global biopharmaceutical company, today announced the first patient enrolled in a Phase 2a trial to assess the effectiveness of AZD5847, a new test drug for patients with tuberculosis (TB), including patients with HIV ...
December 05, 2012
CLEVELAND - Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine announced that it will receive funding through the Achieving Healthy Growth program within the Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative. This initiative was launched by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to overcome persistent bottl...
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November 19, 2012
CLEVELAND - Researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have identified a genetic factor that prevents blockages from forming in blood vessels, a discovery that could lead to new therapies for cardiovascular diseases.
The findings are described in the Nov. 19 issue of the Jour...
November 16, 2012
Closing the African-American startup gap (opinion)
Entrepreneur: Despite the fact that African-American individuals are more likely to initiate the new-business creation process than white individuals, they are less likely to have up-and-running businesses a few years later, according to a survey. ...
October 11, 2012
Return to Think By Numbers, the 2012-2013 Annual Report
Distinguished University Professor Richard Boyatzis has emerged as the ninth most influential international thinker in a 2012 survey of more than 11,000 human resources directors worldwide.
Boyatzis, a New York Times bestselling author renown...
August 21, 2012
William Peirce, professor emeritus of economics, presented a paper, "Liberty, Property, and the Land Value Tax," at the 2012 meeting of the History of Economics Society.
The annual conference was held June 25 at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario....
August 20, 2012
Harvey Salkin, who served on the faculty of the Weatherhead School of Management for 43 years, passed away earlier this month after suffering complications and a stroke after surgery. He was 67.
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., Salkin earned a bachelor’s degree from Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, a master’...
July 23, 2012
A Case Western Reserve University professor this month joined the federal office charged with advising the nation’s president on economic policy.
Susan Helper will serve for a year as a senior economist on the staff of the Council of Economic Advisers. A member of the Weatherhead School of Manageme...
July 06, 2012
When the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants recently identified the most influential leaders in its 125-year history, it selected one of Case Western Reserve’s own: Distinguished University Professor Gary Previts.
But this certainly wasn’t the first time Previts, chair of the accoun...