As a result, the number of small businesses shuttered also must have risen last year, says Scott Shane, a professor of entrepreneurial studies and economics at Case Western Reserve University's Weatherhead School of Management.

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Developed by organizational psychiatrist David Cooperrider , a professor at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, the program has been used at GTE, American Express and the Navy.

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Like companies, business schools "have to change with the times and go where the market is, " says Anurag Gupta, chair of the banking and finance department at Case Western Reserve University's Weatherhead School of Management.

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