In strong support of its growing reputation as a world-renowned management education center, Case Western Reserve University's Weatherhead School of Management announced today that it performed extremely well in three recent business school rankings by prominent publications, including:

• The Financial Times 2002 Executive M.B.A. Ranking - Weatherhead placed first in Ohio, 13th in the U.S. and 24th in the world. This compares with first, 24th and 34th, respectively, last year.
• BusinessWeek's 2002 "Best B-Schools" - Weatherhead was ranked as one of the top 50 M.B.A. programs in the U.S.
• The Economist - Weatherhead placed 26th in the U.S. - and 38th in the world - in the publication's first-ever rankings of the best M.B.A. programs in the world.

"These rankings are an early validation of the course set for the School in our recently-published strategic plan," said Mohsen Anvari, dean of the Weatherhead School of Management and Albert J. Weatherhead III Professor of Management. "This good news will help Weatherhead continue to attract exceptional students, the best recruiters and world-class faculty."

"Weatherhead's improvement in the rankings is not a surprise to me," said David Daberko, chairman and CEO of National City Corp. of Cleveland. "Based on the high quality of the School's graduates, and the innovative, relevant research being conducted by the faculty, it is clear to me that Weatherhead warrants consideration as one of the premier business schools in the world."

A benchmark week

News of Weatherhead's strong rankings occurred during the same week CWRU dedicated the School of Management's new home, the Frank Gehry-designed Peter B. Lewis Building. Named in honor of Peter B. Lewis, founder and retired chairman of the Progressive Corp., the building is the most advanced management school facility in the world and reflects Weatherhead's international reputation for innovative management education.

Weatherhead's dedication week also included an announcement of the School's new M.B.A. specialization in bioscience entrepreneurship. This specialization, one of the first of its kind in the country, is designed to attract the best young scientists, engineers and researchers to Weatherhead to learn the management skills they need to bring their ideas to market.

"This past week was one of the most exciting periods in Weatherhead's history and I'm extremely proud of the School's recent accomplishments and progress," Anvari said. "There's an unprecedented sense of momentum at Weatherhead, and a recognition that we are well on our way to achieving many of the goals we set for ourselves in the past year."

For additional information about the Weatherhead School of Management and its new Peter B. Lewis Building, go to http://www.weatherhead.cwru.edu/pbl.

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