In Case Western Reserve University's Weatherhead School of Management, the Center exists to advance the scholarship and practice of flourishing enterprise.
The Fowler Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit is the academic center within the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University. The Center exists to advance the scholarship and practice of flourishing enterprise. The Center’s primary focus is on for-profit organizations that use their core activities to create value for society and the environment in ways that create even more value for their customers and shareholders. Its theory of change draws on Appreciative Inquiry, Sustainable Value, Design, and Systems Thinking to create a business-led world of prosperity and flourishing.
The flourishing enterprise is about people being inspired every day and bringing their whole selves into the enterprise; it’s about innovation arising from everywhere; and it’s about realizing remarkable relationship value with stakeholders, including customers, communities, and societies, and ultimately with a thriving biosphere.
— David Cooperrider, 2014
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