Keep up to date with news coming out of xLab at Weatherhead School of Management.
In an AI reimagined financial world, it begins with the consumer (part one)
May 24, 2023AI is undergoing its “Halo and Horns Effect”—everything it touches is anticipated to turn into a pot of gold or end civilization. However, while the promise…
Meet xLab Advisor Mike Fisher
March 22, 2023Michael Fisher, former CTO of Etsy, has joined xLab as a technical advisor for several student projects. Fisher is currently working with three xLab teams on…
xLab member spotlight: Natalie Smolenski
February 14, 2023Natalie Smolenski has been partnering with xLab since 2021. She is a business development executive at Hyland and an xLab corporate member. Natalie is also an…
Faculty Director Youngjin Yoo discusses how ChatGPT is shaking up the classroom in Northeast Ohio
February 09, 2023ideastream: Youngjin Yoo, the Elizabeth M. and…
Preparing for 2023: How business leaders should navigate the impact of AI development with ChatGPT-3
January 23, 2023As we approach the year 2023, it's important for business leaders to start thinking about how to prepare for the impact of artificial intelligence (AI)…
Q&A with Nikita Tayal, MBA student
December 13, 2022This semester, Nikita Tayal, a Weatherhead School of Management MBA student with a concentration in design, analytics and fintech, has been working with xLab on…
xLab welcomes Ray Leach, CEO of JumpStart, to the advisory board!
October 07, 2022Ray Leach is the founding CEO of JumpStart Inc., a Cleveland-based non-profit venture development organization that has gained a national best-in-class…
Hyland Software Phase 3
October 07, 2022The partnership between Hyland Software and xLab is continuing into its third semester. Students who are new to xLab are working with students from past…
Members’ Day recap
October 07, 2022xLab hosted its first ever Members’ Day in September, a couple weeks into the semester. Representatives from Hyland Software, Progressive Insurance, Avery…
Progressive Insurance: Employee wellness in the call center
October 07, 2022This semester, students from xLab are working closely with Progressive Insurance to better understand factors that contribute to employee wellness and resilience…
Youngjin Yoo given awards from Case Western Reserve and Academy of Management
September 02, 2022Congratulations to xLab founder and faculty director, Youngjin Yoo, on two recent awards: the 2022 Faculty Distinguished Research Award from Case Western Reserve…
Ryan Tatton, Erman Ayday, Youngjin Yoo and Anisa Halimi to have research published in the IEEE Health Com 2022
September 02, 2022ShareTrace: Contact Tracing with the Actor Model
IEEE HealthCom 2022
Ryan Tatton, Erman Ayday,…xLab project update for the fall semester
September 02, 2022Universal Learning and Employment (LER) Ecosystem: Privacy-Preserving Verifiable Credentialing Solution
Earlier in the year, xLab…
Erman Ayday receives NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program grant
September 02, 2022Congratulations to Erman Ayday, xLab professor and assistant professor in the Department of Computer and Data Science, for being awarded a National Science…
Interview with xLab advisory board member, Greg Gumbs
May 17, 2022Greg Gumbs is the president and CEO of Bosch - Rexroth North America, an organization of…
xLab partners with Hyland Software and Dataswift to develop solution for digital credentials
May 17, 2022Hyland, Dataswift, and Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) xLab students continued their partnership this semester in developing a solution for storing and…
xLab partners with global electronics manufacturer to evaluate household robots in the US
May 17, 2022This semester, students from xLab teamed up with a global electronics manufacturer to evaluate how two of its consumer robots could be used in households in the…
Toward A Universal Learning and Employment Record (LER) Ecosystem: A Privacy-Preserving Verifiable Credentialing Solution
April 22, 2022Youngjin Yoo, the Elizabeth M. and William C. Treuhaft Professor of Entrepreneurship and faculty director of xLab, and Erman Ayday, assistant professor,…
How did software eat the world?
April 19, 2022Youngjin Yoo
"In short, software is eating the world... Companies in every industry need to assume that a software revolution is coming.…
xLab Teamed Up with Progressive to Solve Consumer Problems
February 17, 2022Progressive Insurance and students from xLab teamed up last semester to explore and prototype concepts in the car-maintenance space that could solve consumer…
Digital-First Strategy: Technology
February 17, 2022It is almost cliche to say that "digital innovation is NOT about technology.” Yes, it is true. But, no digital innovation can succeed without a sound technology…
Spotlight: Meet Lauren Nelson, xLab Project Coach
February 17, 2022Each xLab student project team includes a project coach who is an industry professional, to help mentor and guide through the different stages of a client project.A Manufacturing-Driven Approach to Advancing Community in Northeast Ohio
February 17, 2022This team is going to to create a smart and connected community in Northeast Ohio by forging a strategic alliance between the community and small-to-mid-sized-…Digital-First Strategy: People
January 20, 2022No digital transformation can be accomplished without significant investment in people. Digital tools and assets without people who can effectively use them…
Digital-First Strategy: Framework
January 20, 2022In this issue, we begin with the strategy dimension. The next two issues will review people and technology dimensions, respectively. A digital-first strategy…
Spotlight: Jim Treleaven, Chair of the xLab Advisory Board
January 19, 2022Treleaven is a CWRU alum, having earned both his BS in computer engineering and his PhD in management in information and decision sciences from the university.xLab Introduces its Spring 2022 Projects
January 19, 2022The xLab student project teams are working on two exciting, but very different projects this semester—one building on research from last semester for Hyland…
Analyzing How AI Technology Evolves through Diffusion
January 19, 2022Artificial intelligence (AI) is arguably one of the most significant technological innovations as it reshapes the way we think about work, organizing and…Student Bailey Kaplan Helps Lead Spring xLab Projects
January 19, 2022Bailey Kaplan is a senior at Case Western Reserve University, triple majoring in computer science, cognitive science and psychology. She has been with xLab since…
Hack from Home Elyria awards prizes to four innovative ideas
November 30, 2021xLab was proud to support the City of Elyria—together with its strategic partner Data swift and other partners including SpeedeonData, Kinetic by Windstream and…
Hyland, Dataswift and Case Western Reserve University partner to advance web-based verifiable credential storage
November 18, 2021Hyland, Dataswift and students from Case Western Reserve University’s xLab initiative have partnered to advance the development of open standards for blockchain-…Industry Leaders, Partners to Advise xLab on Strategic Vision
August 16, 2021xLab is proud to announce the formation of the xLab Advisory Board, an esteemed group of executives and partners chosen to counsel the program by shaping its…
Overcoming Pilot Paralysis in Digital Transformation
April 27, 2021Established organizations with legacy systems and people have now understood that the creation of new products, services, and business models through the innovative…Empire Strikes Back by Youngjin Yoo
February 17, 2021As the economy recovers from the pandemic, 2021 will likely be marked as the year legacy companies got serious about their digital strategy and moved beyond small…Managing infection risk and privacy, ShareTrace gives people security to return to work and social life
June 03, 2020The ShareTrace app is a smart digital risk assessment service that provides contact tracing in a privacy-preserving way and offers additional personalized infection…Tomorrow has Come, Time to Embrace Digital Transformation
April 21, 2020For a long time, digital transformation has been an agenda for tomorrow, and companies believed they did not have to change any time soon. Yet COVID-19 is…
Winning Hack-from-Home team develops ‘traffic light’ app to help end Coronavirus lockdown
April 17, 2020Health Traffic Light, a project formed by a multidisciplinary team of designers, data scientists and academics, including members of the Case Western Reserve…Dataswift launches virtual Hack from Home hackathon
April 01, 2020Hackathon launched to help fight coronavirus pandemic
April 01, 2020Fighting Covid-19 without turning into a surveillance state
April 01, 2020Weatherhead’s xLab Partners on Global Hackathon to Build Technology Solutions Amid Coronavirus Pandemic
March 30, 2020The hackathon, which will be held remotely April 4-5, 2020, is calling all technologists, designers, activists, scholars, scientists, medical professionals,…xLab to Partner with HAT-LAB to Champion Ethical Innovation in Personal Data
March 09, 2020The HAT (the Hub-of-All-Things) is an economic ecosystem of personal data accounts and exchange platforms. HAT Community Foundation, a not for profit enterprise,…Mickey McManus, xLab Quarterly Roundtable Guest Speaker
December 02, 2019Mickey McManus is a senior advisor to the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and a visiting research fellow at Autodesk's Office of the CTO. He is a pioneer in pervasive…The Akron Art Museum is on its Game in Exploring Digital Culture
November 11, 2019Panel Discusses How Manufacturers can Benefit from Digital Strategy
November 11, 2019Execs will convene at Case Western to talk tech in manufacturing
October 08, 2019"Technology is fundamentally transforming the way value is created and captured in the economy," Yoo said. "Digital assets are the primary source of value creation."Introducing xLab
August 26, 2019Interview with xLab Launch Director Jennifer Thomas
June 25, 2019With the successful launch, we are thanking Jennifer Thomas who has worked with us tirelessly as a launch director. We sat down with her to talk about her…Interview with Dr. Tae-Hyun Hwang
June 25, 2019xLab and Hwang Lab will collaborate to work on training workshops, seminars, and client projects combining design thinking and digital business competencies of xLab…