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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December 01, 2016
New ϳԹ, U.S. Department of Commerce report documents value to companies when investing in apprentices
A ϳԹ Weatherhead School of Management professor was a key researcher and co-author for a U.S. Department of Commerce study that validates th...
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November 11, 2016
David Cooperrider, Distinguished University Professor and the Fairmount Santrol - David L. Cooperrider Professor in Appreciative Inquiry, was selected to give the keynote address at the International Positive Psychology Association’s fifth World Congress on Positive Psychology.
The congress will be...
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November 07, 2016
Legendary Weatherhead School of Management Professor Richard L. Osborne—better known on campus as the "Gorilla"—died Friday after a brave battle with illness. He was 78.
A member of the ϳԹ community for 45 years, Osborne inspired deep admiration and affection among students, colle...
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November 07, 2016
A multi-institution academic-industrial partnership of researchers led by ϳԹ School of Medicine has developed a new method to broadly assess cell communication networks and identify disease-specific network anomalies. The computer-based method, called InFlo, was develope...
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November 02, 2016
Interested in studying business? Stop by the Fall Weatherhead Open House Friday, Nov. 4, from 12:30 to 2 p.m. in Peter B. Lewis Building, Room 208 to learn more about academic programs at the Weatherhead School of Management.
Undergraduate students are invited to meet with faculty, advisers and cur...
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October 28, 2016
The Graduate Business Student Association (GBSA) will host the Weatherheadless Ball Saturday, Oct. 29, from 8 p.m. to midnight on the lower level of the Peter B. Lewis Building.
The haunted masquerade-themed event will feature music, games, food and a costume contest.
The event is open to all grad...
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October 28, 2016
Chris Laszlo, the Char and Chuck Fowler Professor of Business as an Agent of World Benefit and faculty executive director of the Fowler Center, wrote an article for The Huffington Post about mindfulness in business practices.
He discussed the role of mindfulness practices in business and the conver...
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October 11, 2016
Student entrepreneur builds growing business with magnetic bottle openers
It began as a simple gesture of thanks.
Brian Tighe made a bottle opener for a friend’s grandfather to mount on the dock at his pond as a thank-you for letting him fish there.
Except the man really didn’t care for the gift,...
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October 10, 2016
Nicholas DiFranco distinctly remembers reading an article a few years ago that completely changed his career perspective. “I want to be on this side of the biomedical engineering world,” he remembers thinking.
The piece detailed the artificial heart that two doctors and an engineer created. It was ...
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October 06, 2016
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, in collaboration with the Weatherhead School of Management at ϳԹ, is sponsoring a business design and innovation competition to redefine the tire for the Internet of Things.
The Goodyear Innovation Challenge invited teams of four to f...