Proven Excellence
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The Weatherhead Advantage
Personalized
Learn in small cohorts where professors know your goals and challenge your thinking, surrounded by peers who share your commitment to tackling complex problems. With access to an active, worldwide alumni network, you'll discover the leader you want to become.
Interconnected
Build relationships that propel your career forward. Partner with Fortune 500 companies and enterprises across healthcare, manufacturing and technology. Collaborate across CWRU's top-ranked professional schools. Join a global alumni network that mentors and opens doors. Engage with executives from our advisory boards across our speciality programs.
Pathbreaking
Innovation is in our DNA. We created the first competency-based MBA for leadership and emotional intelligence and launched the nation's first doctoral program for practicing executives. We're most comfortable pushing boundaries. Today, you'll solve problems that require advanced approaches, build AI-powered solutions for enterprises across industries and graduate with proof of what you can deliver.
Weatherhead Centers of Excellence
Build AI Solutions That Ship
Organizations need leaders who can harness technology and inspire people. At xLab, our digital innovation hub, you develop digital solutions for actual management challenges—building the technical fluency and strategic judgment that tomorrow's organizations demand.
Lead With Purpose
Business has the power to solve some of society's most pressing challenges. Through the Fowler Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit, you can work on projects that meaningfully impact communities, advance sustainability and create shared value. You will graduate confident that your work can generate profit and purpose.
From Classroom to Company
Turn your ideas into funded ventures. Through the Veale Institute for Entrepreneurship, you can launch startups, compete for investment and work with mentors who've built businesses.
Lead With Agency
At Weatherhead we created groundbreaking frameworks, such as appreciative inquiry, that are used worldwide to drive organizational change through emotional intelligence and strength-based leadership. Through the Celia Scott Leadership Institute, you'll develop agentic leadership: the ability to act with intention, make decisions under pressure and drive outcomes when the path isn't clear.
Your Training Ground
From family businesses to Fortune 500 companies, Cleveland is home to countless enterprises that redefine America's industrial heartland. Since 1952, we've built relationships with leading hospital systems and advanced manufacturing facilities that give you unparalleled access to internships, consulting projects and career opportunities.
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