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January 26, 2007
Drug-testing lab in Mogadore takes a chance; rewards follow
Akron Beacon Journal, January 26, 2007
Omega Laboratories—a six-year-old Mogadore, Ohio, business that tests hair for drug use—is enjoying its status as the sixth-fastest growing company in Northeast Ohio, as ranked by the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. Read article.
January 25, 2007
Coshocton kids score some cash
The Plain Dealer, January 25, 2007 (editorial)
It's one thing to reward high-achieving students with a pizza party or a movie, but quite another to give them cold, hard cash. Or is it? Robert E. Simpson, a local businessman, launched the effort after reading about a project in Kenya that paid students for good marks. He donated $100,000 and persuaded dubious school staff to give it a try. Meanwhile, Case Western Reserve University economics Professor Eric Bettinger came on board to design a formal research model to measure the impact of the cash awards. Read article.
January 09, 2007
Do startups really need formal business plans?
The Wall Street Journal online, January 9, 2007 (subscription required)
Business schools and consultants have long preached that writing a formal business plan greatly improves a startup's odds of success. But a growing number of academics are questioning whether that's really the case. Scott Shane, a professor at Case Western Reserve University, says most studies that discount business planning are flawed because they don't correct for business failure rates, only accounting for businesses that survived. Read article.
January 04, 2007
Weatherhead receives $2.4 million donation
The Plain Dealer, January 4, 2007
"There's no I in Sand," announces the Web site of Fairmount Minerals, a Chardon, Ohio-based company whose sand is sold by Toys "R" Us for sandboxes and is turned into glass for the Ford Motor Co. That philosophy—keyed to environmental and social responsibility—motivated the company's $2.4 million gift to the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University. Read article.
Weatherhead gets $2.4M in gifts
Crain's Cleveland Business, January 4, 2007
Fairmount Minerals Ltd. of Chardon has made two gifts totaling $2.4 million to the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University to bolster the school's Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit. "The principals and managers at Fairmount Minerals have supported Weatherhead for more than 20 years. We are delighted that they have chosen to permanently associate their name with our school," said Mohan Reddy, dean of the management school, in a statement. Read article.
December 22, 2006
Reddy takes Weatherhead job permanently
Crain's Cleveland Business, December 21, 2006
Case Western Reserve University has taken the "interim" off Mohan Reddy's dean title at the Weatherhead School of Management. The university announced that Reddy has been named permanent dean at the business school, succeeding Myron Roomkin, who stepped down last August 1. Reddy was named interim dean last August 10. Read article.
Case retains its interim at school of business
The Plain Dealer, December 22, 2006
Case Western Reserve University on Thursday named N. Mohan Reddy dean of its Weatherhead School of Management. Reddy had been interim dean since August 1, when Myron Roomkin stepped down after two years. Reddy's leadership over the past few months apparently won over faculty members at the school that has experienced instability in leadership over the past eight years. "We are pleased to be able to continue to draw from Mohan Reddy's insight and leadership in continuing to advance the Weatherhead School of Management," said John L. Anderson, provost and university vice president. Read article.
December 11, 2006
Case lecturer sees drop in GDP growth
Crain's Cleveland Business, December 11, 2006
Gross domestic product growth will slow and unemployment will rise, but the economy will remain in decent shape for 2007, according to an economic forecast by Sam Thomas, a senior lecturer in banking and finance at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University. In an interview prior to delivering the 33rd annual David A. Bowers Economic Forecast on December 8, Thomas said he projects real GDP growth of 2.4 percent for 2007, down from 3.2 percent in 2006. Read article.
Happy returns: Hobbyists-turned-entrepreneurs make their leisure activities serious business
Crain's Cleveland Business, December 11, 2006
Art Good is a certified public accountant. As the owner of Arthur W. Good C.P.A. Inc. in Seven Hills, he provides tax planning and accounting system design services. He also is a Cecropia moth breeder, the "guy that figured out how to raise moths" free from disease and safe from predators. His unusual fascination with moths aside, Mr. Good is far from unique in his drive to make a business out of his hobby. But he does typify the kind of entrepreneur who manages to make money off of what was once just an enjoyable pastime. "These folks back into the business, but still have 'keys' to a business," said Tracey Messer, an organizational behavior doctoral candidate at Case Western Reserve University's Weatherhead School of Management in Cleveland. Read article. (subscription required)
December 08, 2006
Asian concern buying Hoover
The Plain Dealer, December 8, 2006
An emerging global corporation based in Hong Kong announced Thursday that it was adding long-suffering Hoover Co. to its list of international power-tool and appliance brand names. Techtronic Industries Co. said it will pay $107 million in cash along with "certain assumed obligations" for the iconic vacuum cleaner maker, whose home has been in North Canton since its founding in 1908. Susan Helper, a professor at Case Western Reserve University's Weatherhead School of Management, said that although production labor is cheaper abroad, TTI might find value in keeping it in Ohio,"close to its market in the United States." Read article.
December 06, 2006
Alternatives to coal for alternative energy
Crain's Cleveland Business (Letters to the Editor), December 4, 2006
Written by Stephen Lamoreaux, economics major, Class of 2008
Allowing the city of Cleveland to invest in a coal-burning power plant, as noted in your November 13 story, "Cleveland Public Power eyes stakes in Ohio plant," seems hypocritical in light of recent statements made by Ohio's senator-elect, Sherrod Brown, no matter how clean proponents claim it can be. If Ohio is going to become the "Silicon Valley of alternative energy," it is necessary to consider alternatives and their potential economic and environmental impacts. Ohio should look to concepts like distributed energy, the use of photovoltaic modules, and fuel cells assembled in a noncentralized method. Read article. (Subscription Required)
December 04, 2006
Growing health advocacy industry takes pressure off individuals
Crain's Cleveland Business, December 4, 2006
Tom Bregar spent two years writing what he calls the "perfect software program" to flush out errors and reconcile and compile medical bills and insurance. In 2002, he turned his idea into MedBill Advantage—his Broadview Heights company that is part health-service- and part technology-based. Today, MedBill Advantage is part of a growing industry of health advocates geared toward helping busy and overwhelmed patients work their way through the health care maze. "This is an outgrowth of taking care of grandma's bills from a shoebox," said J.B. Silvers, faculty director of the Health Systems Management Center in Case Western Reserve University's Weatherhead School of Management. Read article. (subscription required)
November 21, 2006
Cyber-strikers ask: which site are you on?
The Plain Dealer, November 21, 2006
Northeast Ohio is in the thick of two significant labor actions, a nationwide United Steelworkers strike against Akron-based Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. and United Auto Workers Local 1050's strike against Alcoa Inc.'s Cleveland Works. In both, digital communication is playing a bigger role in the conflicts than labor experts have seen in the past. "Perspective is the right word," said Paul Gerhart, economist and professor at Case Western Reserve University's Weatherhead School of Business. "These sites do function as bulletin boards for striking union members, the company employees and shareholders, and others, too." Read article.
November 09, 2006
What now?
The Plain Dealer, November 9, 2006
Democrats control the U.S. House—and may take the Senate as well. They bring with them an agenda that affects executives and managers, consumers and workers. Foreign trade: Not-so-fast track: We may say bye-bye to the "fast track" authority for the president's trade agreements. The authority, up for renewal next year, requires Congress to vote on trade treaties without making amendments. John Soper, economics professor at John Carroll University, worries that ending fast track will make each treaty subject to endless rounds of renegotiation. But Susan Helper, economics professor at Case Western Reserve University, says it would encourage a fuller debate. Read article.
Strategic thinking
Greenbiz.com, November 2006
Column written by Nadya Zhexembayeva
The sign of a tipping point emerged for me at exactly 3:11 p.m., October 25, 2006. It was the closing ceremony of the Global Forum "Business as an Agent of World Benefit: Management Knowledge Leading Positive Change," convened by the Academy of Management (AOM), Case Western Reserve University, and United Nations Global Compact. In a casual, I-forgot-one-more-thing-during-my-thank-you-speech, AOM's President Ken Smith returned to the microphone and announced a joint effort to create "world benefit" principles for management education and research. Suddenly, it seemed that "tipping" the whole system of management scholarship was a reality just around the corner. Read article.
November 08, 2006
Analysis: elections hold sway for health
United Press International, November 7, 2006
This Election Day voters are taking health to the ballot box through several state initiatives and their views on medical research, experts say. A series of midterm ballot initiatives on tobacco, reproduction and social determinants such as housing throughout the country may dramatically sway the direction of public health, said Dr. Georges Benjamin, director of the American Public Health Association. Yet some experts predict a troubled outlook for funding health initiatives, regardless of what party takes over. The "big clash" will come in trying to save money in the federal budget while also funding federal agencies such as NIH, said J.B. Silvers, a professor of health systems management at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University. Read article.