The Weatherhead School of Management is a private business school of Case Western Reserve University located in Cleveland, Ohio. Weatherhead is considered a top-tier business school, with its strongest programs concentrated in organizational behavior, nonprofit business, information systems, entrepreneurship, and executive education. Weatherhead has also focused on the issues of sustainability and global development through the work of David Cooperrider at the blank">Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit.
The hallmark facility of the Weatherhead School of Management is the Peter B. Lewis Building, named after the Cleveland philanthropist who donated over $60 million dollars for its construction. Designed by _Frank Gehry, the building has an area of approximately 150,000 square feet and stands at five stories tall. The buildings decentralized design was chosen so that, “Faculty offices, classrooms and meeting areas are distributed on every floor to encourage informal interaction and complement the Weatherhead School’s learner-centered curriculums.”
On May 9, 2003, Biswanath Halder, an alumnus of the school, went on a shooting spree, killing one student, Norman Wallace, and wounding a professor and a Ph.D. student.
