Business, Law + Politics
August 23, 2019
Executive coaches have access to a potentially huge number of possible coaching interventions that can each be used to facilitate 'best practice.' Conversely, our coachees have a similarly large number of potential responses that they could evoke in response to these interventions. As a result,…
August 23, 2019
A major supportive element of coaching-based research is cross-cultural generalizability. When particular findings are derived from a non-Western academic study, they arguably lend even greater support to certain aspects of the literature within the scholarship of coaching than those drawn from…
August 23, 2019
Do people respond differently to coaching as they get older? This was the question that Lois Tamir and Laura Finfer of Leadership Excellence Coaching sought to answer in an article recently published in Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research. The authors carefully reviewed a…
August 23, 2019
Attitudinal and behavioral changes on the part of a coachee are often thought to be the hallmarks of a successful coaching intervention. Two useful proxies for determining these kinds of changes are receptiveness to feedback on the part of the coachee and the development of a coachee's level of…
August 21, 2019
Cleveland Rising is a summit planned for October 2019 to reach a consensus on economic prosperity for all in the coming decades. The Fowler Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit is facilitating the summit.
August 20, 2019
The Academy of Management selected a symposium organized by Weatherhead School of Management faculty Melvin Smith, PhD and Ellen Van Oosten, PhD, as “Best Symposium” in the Management Education and Development Division. Smith and Van Oosten presented the 90-minute symposium, titled “Desired…
August 12, 2019
On Monday, August 12th, the Fowler Center welcomed Megan Buchter as the new Director of the Fowler Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit. Megan has been part of the Fowler Center for over ten years, first as a student volunteer while doing her CWRU undergrad degree in economics where…
August 05, 2019
With a focus of investing in strong leadership, Dealer Tire and KeyBank have chosen to support future business leaders at Weatherhead through two important scholarship opportunities. The Dealer Tire Scholarship to support graduate students interested in Business as an Agent of World Benefit and the…
July 31, 2019
On July 31, Fowler Center Scholar Annie Morino and Kent State University teammate Garima Jha, presented their project for the EDGE Fellowship Program at the MidTown Tech Hive. As part of the program, EDGE Fellows help Northeast Ohio companies validate and pursue new business ideas. Annie and…
July 24, 2019
Weatherhead's Coffee Connections program will once again match alumni with students for the opportunity to pass along career advice and insights over a cup of coffee or online. Coffee Connections is a rewarding experience for alumni and offers our students the opportunity to gain valuable…