The Mack Institute is Wharton’s hub for innovation management, focused on helping organizations adopt emerging technologies, navigate evolving markets, and build strategy for what’s next.
Through partnership, we offer companies of all sizes and industries customized access to Wharton faculty expertise, MBA student talent, and a cross-industry peer network. Whether you’re working through a specific business challenge, exploring an emerging technology, or looking to connect with peers facing similar questions, we’ll build a program around your needs.
Benefits of Corporate Partnership
Industry Conferences and Workshops
As a partner, you receive first access to Mack Institute conferences and workshops, held on our Philadelphia campus. These interactive events bring together Wharton faculty and senior industry leaders for panel discussions, small-group workshops, and peer networking. Recent topics range from generative AI to corporate-startup collaboration to global supply chain management.
Collaborative Innovation Program (CIP)
Put Wharton’s best minds to work on your most pressing innovation challenges. In our Collaborative Innovation Program, teams of Wharton MBA students spend a full semester embedded in your organization as consultants and strategic advisors, guided by a Wharton faculty member. You define the challenge; our students deliver rigorous, actionable recommendations.
Past project examples include: developing market positioning strategy in the AI economy, disrupting the mortgage title industry through blockchain, and new growth strategies for Gen Z consumer behavior.
Faculty Research Partnerships
Select partners have the opportunity to engage directly with Mack Institute faculty on research collaborations, campus visits, and larger strategic projects. These bespoke engagements connect your organization with world-leading scholars working at the frontier of innovation management.
Current and Past Corporate Partners
In addition to our current corporate partners above, the Mack Institute hosts innovation leaders from a wide range of industries as guest speakers at our conferences and sponsored events. The following is a sampling of the companies represented at our most recent events.
Knowledge Network
In addition to our corporate partners above, the Mack Institute hosts innovation leaders from a wide range of industries as guest speakers at our conferences and sponsored events. The following is a sampling of the companies represented at our most recent events.
