The Char and Chuck Fowler Chair in Sustainable Enterprise is designed for a preeminent scholar who is internationally recognized for her/his research and educational impact in Business Sustainability and Social Entrepreneurship. The Professor/Associate Professor holding this position is expected to teach and provide leadership for a world-class research program in the Weatherhead School’s Center for Sustainable Value.
Candidates for the Chair should possess a clear vision of emerging research and educational opportunities in Business Sustainability and Social Entrepreneurship and be innovative in implementing that vision. She or he should be an active and driven researcher and an institution builder. In addition, all candidates must hold a PhD or DBA in a related topic and have demonstrable record of— or potential for — high impact scholarly contributions in his or her respective field and an outstanding teaching record, along with a managerial orientation.
The faculty at Weatherhead is recognized for its research and impact in shaping the practice of Sustainability and Social Entrepreneurship. The position is open to scholars from all fields that have an interest in Business Sustainability and Social Entrepreneurship. We are particularly interested in scholars who can work across disciplinary boundaries, given that opportunities exist for such collaboration, both within our school and across the university.
Case Western Reserve University is a world-class, private research university located in Cleveland OH USA. The Weatherhead School of Management aspires to foster innovative approaches and bold, high-impact ideas for management theory and practice through its undergraduate and MBA programs (full-and part-time), and its specialty programs in Accountancy, Banking & Finance, Operations, and Positive Organization Development and Change.
In employment, as in education, Case Western Reserve University and the Weatherhead School are committed to equal opportunity and world class diversity. International candidates will be considered. Employer will reimburse relocation costs. Salary and teaching load are AACSB competitive.
Applicants should provide a detailed resume, and a list of five professional references. Application materials should be e-mailed to rmh2@case.edu or submitted by mail to Professor Sayan Chatterjee, Chair, Search Committee, Weatherhead School of Management, Peter B. Lewis Building, Room 230, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, 44106-7235. The position will remain open until filled.
The Weatherhead School of Management is open to applicants from a broad range of disciplines. Examples of applicants we would welcome include (but are not limited to):
- Someone who uses appreciative inquiry to increase the effectiveness of volunteer environmental or social action organizations
- An environmental economist
- A socio-economist
- A finance person who studies carbon emission markets
- An accountant who studies environmental or social action scorecards
- A marketing person whose research in decision-making behavior investigates consumer reactions to advertised descriptions of product environmental impacts
- An operations person who studies closed-loop supply chains
- A statistician who specializes in forecasting the biological impacts of global climate change
- An information systems person who studies global information systems concerned with hunger or with melting arctic sea ice
- Someone who studies Bottom of the Pyramid strategies