Happy Spring! Congratulations to the class of 2021 who will soon join the 309 strong ranks of our proud alumni.
25TH ANNIVERSARY SILVER JUBILEE - Better late than never
Now scheduled for April 2022
Your Alumni Council, faculty, administration and the anniversary planning committee have voted unanimously to postpone the celebration until April 2022. We care about everyone’s safety and want to be sure enough time has passed to ensure healthy travel and a safe gathering. On the bright side, 2022 will bring even more topicality: How did business and the economy emerge from the coronavirus recession? What new technologies are changing how we live and work the most: Machine Learning? Robotics, Automated Vehicles? What are the newest global challenges affecting industrial? The Economy? What new materials and processes will spur U.S. technological innovation and growth?
We are planning for 2 ½ days, Thursday afternoon through Saturday at 3 p.m. That extra time will allow us to benefit from enriched content reflecting alumni interests as well social networking.
Planned panel topics will include:
Data Analytics, Cybersecurity, Deep Fakes and their impact on practice and scholarship
What’s after Industry 4.0 ?: workforce, technology, competition
Global geo-political and economic trends
Managing and sustaining complex systems in a messy world
Leadership and Intentional Change
Collective Action for Ethics & Values
Research Methods and Writing for Publication
And of course, there will be outstanding keynote speakers from industry and academia.
DEFINING DOCTOR OF MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS
CWRU’s Weatherhead School of Management Doctor of Management Programs now include the Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) and the Ph.D. in Management: Designing Sustainable Systems. Common curricula and coursework during the first three years provide a foundation for conducting rigorous research and practicing evidence-based management. Courses are interrelated theoretically and methodologically and prepare students to bring academic, data-driven perspectives to bear on problems they may encounter in their organizations or in public policy advocacy. The DBA prepares practitioner-scholars to think intensely and critically about problems confronting an organization, a community, a nation and the world. Students are afforded opportunities to conceptually model these "wicked" problems, challenge existing assumptions and test new ideas. This is accomplished in a cross-disciplinary fashion with relevant contributions to both management theory and practice. Currently, students choosing to go for a fourth year produce directed independent research, participate in workshops and complete a Dissertation Defense to earn their Ph.D. advance their careers in academic and practitioner disciplines.
BECOME A WEATHERHEAD RESEARCH FELLOW! If you are interested in continuing publishable practitioner-scholar research, be sure to read about Engaged Practitioner Scholarship online.
“Bring it on home!” Even if you work at a university and have the scholarly resources needed to accomplish your work, you may not feel like you have a scholarly “home” that can help you shine. EPS offers a welcoming network of fellow scholars, and the guidance to support your efforts, that can make all the difference in your success.
TELL US WHAT YOU’RE UP TO!
Help us be “proud out loud” about your achievements, publications, presentations, promotions, and new positions. Analytics that have been run on these sections of the DM Digest report that this information has the highest readership. So, please let us know what’s up with you professionally. We look forward to sharing your updates in DM Digest.
HELP WANTED!
Your Cohort Needs a Class Representative
Cohort Representatives gather updates from other members of their graduating class, reach out to them occasionally for updates, and forward the news they share. We post their updates in the DM Digest. If you would like to volunteer to be your cohort’s Representative, please send an email to Sue or Marilyn.
JOIN THE ALUMNI COUNCIL
Your Alumni Council helps ensure a return-on-investment from your degree by working on behalf of your interests. The latest example is the degree change from DM to DBA. 2021-22 can be the year for over 300 alumni to come together to benefit from, participate in and support alumni activities. To do that, we need to know how we can make your investment more beneficial and valuable. Council members are responsible for staying current with alumni concerns. Participation requires one conference-call meeting per quarter, with occasional in-betweens for planning events. Information about joining the Alumni Council will be forthcoming.
DM Program’s own “Best Seller”: Voices of Practitioner Scholars
This book embodies the plurality of exciting thinking and unique lived experiences as expressed by the voices of management practitioner scholars who completed the Doctor of Management programs. It’s available online.
SHARE DM DIGEST QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS or VOLUNTEER TO PARTICIPATE by contacting:
Beth Fitz Gibbon, DM ’09 pathfox820@gmail.com
Joann Farrell Quinn, PhD’13 jfquinn@jfqconsulting.com
Sue Nartker san2@case.edu
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