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Richard "Gorilla" Osborne

    • JAN 31

      Born

    1938

    • Graduated BSBA magna cum laude, Bowling Green State University

    1959

    • Began career at Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University

    • Executive Dean / Director, Dively Center for Management Research

    1971

    • Executive Dean for Organizational Resources

    1981

    • Professor for the Practice of Management

    1988

    • Married Elizabeth C. Osborne

    • DEC

      Cited as one of the top ten entrepreneurship professors in the US by Businessweek

    1996

    • Recipient of Case Western Reserve University's Wittke Award

    2008

    • Inaugural recipient of the Theodore M. and Catherine C. Alfred Professorship in Management

    2010
    • NOV 04

      Loss of the Gorilla

    2016