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Weatherhead Connection
Funded by The Cleveland Foundation
$1.5 million
The L. Dale Dorney Fund of The Cleveland Foundation has provided resources that have permitted us to explore technology use in three major areas at the Weatherhead School of Management:
• Community Building
• Curriculum Enhancement
• Institutional Change
In particular, our goals were: the development of new and innovative instructional approaches by using web-based technologies; the development of community portals that can improve research, and teaching in the school, or improve the school’s ties with its stakeholders; and the design and implementation of teaching technologies which improve teaching processes in the classroom or outside the classroom, and which better integrate them with research.
Funded by the National Science Foundation
$450,000
The Path Creation Project (NSF Number IIS-0208963) explores the way that Frank O. Gehry and his firm of architects uses three dimensional computer modeling in the design of buildings and the changes that it creates in his architectural practice as well as in that of the participating network of contractors. The objective is to determine whether or not his innovative designs serve as path-creating events for his firm and companies working on his projects. Path creating events are project phases that require a firm to break from the standard routines established in its industry in order to develop new work approaches. Our hypothesis is that the designs by Gehry Partners requires innovation in work practices, technology use, and organization structures by those associated with his building projects. We are also hypothesizing that the path creating behaviors developed for work on his projects is carried over by the participating firms into subsequent projects, including those designed by other architects.
Using Technology for Chronic Disease Management
Funded by The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
$31,200
This study will establish the degree to which a technology-based patient intervention can replace manual interventions by exploring the efficacy of a web-based system bsed on The Cleveland Clinic Foundation's electronic medical record for the management of Type II diabetes.
Funded by the National Science Foundation
$50,000
In June, 2002, Frank Gehry, Lucy Suchman, Karl Weick and 60 other designers, managers and scholars gathered in Mr. Gehry's recently completed Peter B. Lewis Building to consider how the art of design can inform the practice of management.
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