Laidlaw named associate dean

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Posted 12-13-99

Laidlaw named associate dean for executive education at CWRU's Weatherhead School of Management

William K. Laidlaw Jr., E.D.M., has been appointed associate dean for executive education and professor for the practice of management at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University. His appointment will be effective January 1.

Since 1975, Laidlaw has served as executive vice president and chief operating officer of AACSB - The International Association for Management Education in St. Louis. AACSB is the accrediting agency and service organization for university-based business schools and programs worldwide. Prior to joining AACSB, he served as director of business school programs for the Educational Testing Service in Princeton, New Jersey.

At the Weatherhead School, Laidlaw will oversee the growth and development of the school's executive education program portfolio and the management of its executive education facility, the George S. Dively Building. The Weatherhead School offers non-degree executive education programs through the Dively Center for Management Development, the Health Systems Management Center, the Center for Regional Economic Issues, Enterprise Development Inc., and the Mandel Center for Nonprofit Organizations, as well as the nationally ranked Weatherhead Executive M.B.A. program and Executive Doctor of Management (E.D.M.) program.

Laidlaw received his E.D.M. degree from the Weatherhead School earlier this year. He also holds an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. from Hamilton College. He has an extensive record of involvement in community service and professional activities, currently chairing the executive committee of INTERMAN, part of the International Labor Organization, United Nations Development Program, based in Geneva, Switzerland. He will make his new home in Cleveland Heights.

The Weatherhead School of Management has been recognized as one of "the most innovative business schools in the world" by Business Week's Guide to the Best B-Schools. Weatherhead introduced the first competency-based M.B.A. program in the United States in 1990, and the E.D.M., the nation's first doctoral program offered exclusively to practicing executives, in 1995. Today the Weatherhead School offers 30 academic programs leading to bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees, as well as certificate and executive education programs.

In April 1999, the Weatherhead School broke ground for the Peter B. Lewis Building, designed by world renowned architect Frank O. Gehry. Completion of the Lewis Building is scheduled for late 2001.

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