The Mack Institute’s strength lies in the diversity of its viewpoints. Our faculty leadership collaborate with a core team of accomplished Wharton faculty members and our senior fellows, who are high-level executives and academic leaders experienced in innovation management.
The institute’s faculty share their considerable cross-disciplinary expertise through courses at every level. Outside of the classroom, our faculty, senior fellows, and management team organize events and direct research projects that significantly expand understanding in the field of innovation management and reflect the strategic concerns of our partners.
Faculty & Executive Leadership
Harbir Singh
Co-director, Mack Institute for Innovation Management; Faculty Director for Huntsman Program in International Studies and Business; Mack Professor of ManagementLearn More
Harbir Singh has served as past Chair of the Business Policy and Strategy Division of the Academy of Management and Chair of Wharton’s Management Department. He has served on the editorial boards of several leading management journals. His research on the role of cultural distance in explaining the choice of entry mode by multinationals won the “JIBS Decade Award”, presented by the Journal of International Business Studies. He has also received the Strategic Management Society’s Award for Outstanding Research. He is a Fellow of the Strategic Management Society, the premier professional body for research in strategy, and was named its Dean in 2015. Professor Singh has taught extensively in Wharton’s multiple degree programs. He is on the Academic Advisory Board of the Indian School of Business, and has been a Visiting Professor at the London Business School and Bocconi University, Italy. He has worked with companies such as Glaxo Smithkline, Verizon, Cisco, and the Aditya Birla Group on issues relating to strategy, alliances and acquisitions.
Research Areas
Strategies for corporate acquisitions; corporate governance; joint ventures; management buyouts; corporate restructuring.
Nicolaj Siggelkow
Co-director, Mack Institute for Innovation Management; Vice Dean, MBA Program; David M. Knott ProfessorLearn More
Nicolaj Siggelkow is the David M. Knott Professor at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He is a Co-Director of the Mack Institute for Innovation Management at Wharton. He studied Economics at Stanford University and earned an M.A. in Economics from Harvard University. He received a Ph.D. in Business Economics from Harvard University and the Harvard Business School. Professor Siggelkow has been the recipient of multiple MBA and Undergraduate Excellence in Teaching Awards, including the Class of 1984 Award presented to the faculty member with the highest teaching rating in the MBA classroom, the Helen Kardon Moss Anvil Teaching Award, the Wharton Award, and the Wharton Graduate Association Student Choice Award. His research has been published in the leading management journals, including Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Industrial Economics, Management Science, Organization Science, and Strategic Organization. In 2008, he received the Administrative Science Quarterly Scholarly Contribution Award for the most significant paper published in ASQ five years earlier. Professor Siggelkow is a member of the Editorial Review Boards of Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Strategic Organization, and Academy of Management Perspectives.
His current research focuses on the strategic and organizational implications of interactions among a firm’s choices of activities and resources. In particular, his research has focused on three broad questions: How do firms develop, grow and adjust their set of activities over time? How does organizational design affect a firm’s ability to find high-performing sets of activities? What role do interactions among a firm’s activities play in creating and sustaining competitive advantage? To address these questions, he has employed a range of methodological approaches, including in-depth field studies of individual firms, econometric methods for large-scale data sets, formal modeling, and simulation models.
Research Areas
Competitive strategy; evolution of fit; firms as systems of interconnected choices.
Christian Terwiesch
Co-director, Mack Institute for Innovation Management; Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics; Andrew M. Heller ProfessorLearn More
Christian Terwiesch is a Professor of Operations and Information Management at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He also is a Senior Fellow at Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics. His research on Operations Management and on R&D and Innovation Management appears in many of the leading academic journals. Professor Terwiesch has researched with and consulted for various organizations, including a project on concurrent engineering for BMW, supply chain management for Intel and Medtronic, and product customization for Dell. Most of his current work relates to healthcare and innovation management. In the innovation space, recent projects include the management of the clinical development portfolio at Merck, the development of open innovation systems, and the design of patient centered care processes in the VA hospital system. Professor Terwiesch is the co-author of Matching Supply with Demand, a widely used text-book in Operations Management. His latest book, Innovation Tournaments, features a novel, process-based approach to innovation that has led to innovation tournaments in organizations around the world.
Research Areas
Innovation Management; analyzing operational performance; lean operations; R&D management; innovation portfolios; various industries, including hospitals, pharmaceuticals, online stores, semi-conductors, financial services
Valery Yakubovich
Executive Director, Mack Institute for Innovation Management; Senior Fellow, the Wharton Center for Human ResourcesLearn More
Dr. Valery Yakubovich oversees all the Mack Institute’s programs and day-to-day operations. He focuses on bolstering synergy between the research, teaching, and practice of innovation management within the School, fostering dialogue between corporations and academics, and connecting with our corporate and regional partners’ innovation ecosystems.
Previously, he served as the founding Executive Director of Penn’s Computational Social Science Lab, where he oversaw the development of an innovative IT, data, and institutional infrastructure for large-scale open collaborative social sciences. He has diverse academic experience ranging from leading a national summer work program for university students in the former Soviet Union to conducting research, teaching, consulting, and fundraising at major academic and corporate institutions in the US and Europe. Dr. Yakubovich was on the Management Faculty of the Wharton School for several years, as well as the ESSEC Business School, where he was a full Professor of Management.
Dr. Yakubovich holds an MS in mathematics from Moscow State University, an MA in sociology from the University of Warwick, and a PhD in sociology from Stanford University. His research on organizational innovations and social networks has appeared in top academic and practitioner journals, including American Sociological Review, Human Relations, Organization Science, Harvard Business Review, California Management Review, and been featured in mass media, including the Financial Times and the New York Times.
John Paul MacDuffie
Director, Program on Vehicle and Mobility Innovation (PVMI), Mack Institute for Innovation Management; Professor of ManagementLearn More
John Paul MacDuffie is Professor of Management at the Wharton School and Director of the Program on Vehicle and Mobility Innovation (PVMI) at Wharton’s Mack Institute for Innovation Management. PVMI carries on the work of the International Motor Vehicle Program (IMVP), the research network founded at M.I.T. to study the challenges facing the global automotive industry, which Professor MacDuffie co-directed from 2001-2012. He received his B.A. degree from Harvard University and his PhD degree from the Sloan School of Management at M.I.T. His global research on the determinants of high-performance manufacturing is featured centrally in the books The Machine That Changed the World and After Lean Production: Evolving Employment Practices in the World Auto Industry. He is a founding board member of the Industry Studies Association and a member of the Automotive Experts Group at the Federal Reserve Bank.
Research Areas
Links between corporate strategy and human resource management systems, managing people over distance, diffusion of management practices, flexible/lean production systems, high-involvement work systems, product and organizational architecture, organizational learning and collaboration
Faculty Emeritus in Residence
George S. Day
Faculty Emeritus in Residency; Geoffrey T. Boisi Professor EmeritusLearn More
George Day is the Geoffrey T. Boisi Professor Emeritus of Marketing. He has been a consultant to numerous corporations such as General Electric, IBM, Metropolitan Life, Marriott, Unilever, E.I. DuPont de Nemours, W.L.Gore and Associates, Coca-Cola, Boeing, LG Corp., Best Buy and Medtronic. He is the past chairman of the American Marketing Association. His primary areas of activity are marketing, the management of emerging technologies, organic growth and innovation, and competitive strategies in global markets. Professor Day has authored eighteen books in the areas of marketing and strategic management. He has won ten best article award and one best book award, and two of his articles were among the top 25 most influential articles in marketing science in the past 25 years. In 2011 he was chosen as one of eleven “Legends in Marketing.”
Research Areas
Competitive strategies in global markets; new product development and management; market structure and competitive analysis; strategic planning processes and methods; marketing management.
William F. Hamilton
Ralph Landau Professor Emeritus of Management and TechnologyLearn More
William Hamilton is the founder and Director of The Jerome Fisher Program in Management and Technology and emeritus Landau Professor of Management and Technology in the Wharton School and the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania.
Professor Hamilton joined the faculty of the Wharton School in 1967. He has taught and conducted research in the areas of strategic management, technological innovation and entrepreneurship, decision analysis and corporate planning and policy. He has also received a number of teaching awards, including the Wharton School Anvil Award for Teaching Excellence, the University’s Lindback Foundation Award for Distinguished Teaching, Wharton’s Hauck Award for Outstanding Teaching and Wharton’s Undergraduate Teaching Award.
Research Areas
Technology strategy and planning; entrepreneurship; technological innovation
Sidney G. Winter
Deloitte and Touche Emeritus Professor of ManagementLearn More
Sidney Winter is the Deloitte and Touche Professor of Management, Emeritus, at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. His career has included a total of about 8 years in policy research or government roles, including four years as Chief Economist of the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO). The rest has been spent in academe, including tenured positions at three major universities, often with one foot in the economics department and the other in public policy or management. In 2008 he became the fourth internationally-known scholar to receive the Viipuri Prize in Strategic Management, awarded in Lappeenranta, Finland, and was named the Distinguished Lecturer of the Technology and Innovation Management division of the Academy of Management. He is an elected fellow of the Econometric Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Strategic Management Society, and a member the Academy of Management and other scholarly organizations.
Research Areas
Firm capabilities; technological change; competitive advantage
Mack Institute Leadership Emeritus
Saikat Chaudhuri
Inaugural Executive Director, Mack Institute for Innovation Management; Faculty Director, Management Entrepreneurship & Technology Program, UC BerkeleyLearn More
Saikat Chaudhuri was the inaugural Executive Director of the Mack Institute from its transition to an Institute in 2013 until December 2020.
Currently, he is the inaugural Faculty Director of the M.E.T. Program and the Berkeley Haas Entrepreneurship Hub at the University of California at Berkeley. He holds the Grimes M.E.T. Chancellor’s Chair with a joint faculty appointment in the Haas School of Business and the College of Engineering. His research focuses on corporate growth and innovation strategies, particularly in high-tech mergers, acquisitions, outsourcing, and technological innovation. Dr. Chaudhuri is an award-winning educator who has designed and taught popular courses on corporate strategy and innovation, and he has led executive education programs for top firms worldwide. He has been widely recognized by leading professional associations and the global press for his work and insights.
Dr. Chaudhuri served on the faculty at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania for over 16 years, holding key leadership positions. Dr. Chaudhuri holds degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, Stanford University, and Harvard University, with a background in mechanical engineering, manufacturing systems engineering, and technology and operations management.
Core Team, Wharton & Penn Faculty
Raphael (Raffi) Amit
Robert B. Goergen Professor of Entrepreneurship; Professor of ManagementLearn More
Raffi Amit is the Academic Director of the Goergen Entrepreneurial Management Programs which encompasses all of Wharton’s entrepreneurial programs. As well, he co-founded and leads the Wharton Global Family Alliance (WGFA), a unique academic-family business partnership established to enhance the marketplace advantage and the social wealth creation contributions of global families through thought leadership, knowledge transfer and the sharing of ideas and best practices among influential global families. Professor Amit holds B.A. and M.A. degrees in Economics, and received his PhD from Northwestern University’s J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management. Professor Amit’s current research and teaching interests center on family business management, governance, and finance, on venture capital and private equity investments, on the design of business models and on business strategy. He has published extensively in leading academic journals and is frequently quoted in a broad range of practitioner outlets.
Research Areas
Entrepreneurship; family business; strategic management; venture capital financing; eBusiness
David A. Asch, MD, MBA
Senior Vice President for Strategic Initiatives, University of Pennsylvania; John Morgan Professor, Medicine and Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine; Professor, Health Care Management and Operations, Information and Decisions, Wharton SchoolLearn More
Dr. David Asch is Professor of Health Care Management at the Wharton School, Professor of Operations and Information Management at the Wharton School and Professor of Medicine , Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, and Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He is Executive Director of the Penn Medicine Center for Innovation. From 1998 to 2012 he was the Executive Director of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania—a program that attracts approximately $125 million in research grant funding each year, largely from the NIH, making it one of the largest health policy research organizations in the world. He co-directs the Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholars Program at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Asch has extensive experience studying the clinical and economic decisions patients and providers make. Dr. Asch is the recipient of the Alice S. Hersh New Investigator Award from AcademyHealth (1997), the Outstanding Paper of the Year Award from the Society for Medical Decision Making (1997), the Nellie Westerman Prize from the American Federation for Medical Research (1998), the Outstanding Investigator Award from the American Federation for Medical Research (1999), the Robert C. Witt Research Award for the best paper published by the American Risk and Insurance Association (2000), the Mid-Career Research Mentorship Award from the Society of General Internal Medicine (2004), the VA Under Secretary’s Award for Outstanding Achievement in Health Services Research (2008), the Alpha Omega Alpha Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Award from the Association of American Medical Colleges (2009), and the John M. Eisenberg National Award for Career Achievement in Research from the Society of General Internal Medicine (2010). He is an elected member of the Association of American Physicians and the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.
Dr. Asch received an M.D. from Cornell University, a M.B.A. from The Wharton School and an A.B. from Harvard University.
Research Areas
Clinician and patient decision making; health care management; health policy; medical ethics; physician executives; technology assessment; behavioral economics
David Hsu
Richard A. Sapp Professor of ManagementLearn More
David Hsu is the Richard A. Sapp Professor of Management at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He graduated from Stanford University with undergraduate majors in economics and political science. After a few years working in industry, he received his master’s degree in public policy from Harvard University, followed by his PhD in management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Professor Hsu’s research interests are in entrepreneurial innovation and management. Within that domain, he has investigated topics such as intellectual property management, start-up innovation, technology commercialization strategy, and venture capital. His research has appeared in leading journals such as Journal of Finance, Management Science, Strategic Management Journal, and Research Policy. He serves as a department editor of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation department of Management Science. In 2008, Professor Hsu was awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Industry Studies Fellowship. At Wharton, he teaches two MBA electives, Entrepreneurship and Technology Strategy. At Penn, Professor Hsu is Associate Faculty Director of the Weiss Tech House, which encourages and supports students in the creation, development, and commercialization of innovative technologies.
Research Areas
Intellectual property rights; start-up innovation; strategies for commercializing technological innovation; venture capital
Rahul Kapoor
David W. Hauck Professor of Management; Chairperson, Wharton Management DepartmentLearn More
Vijay Kumar
Nemirovsky Family Dean, School of Engineering and Applied Science; UPS Foundation Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics (MEAM), Computer and Information Science (CIS), Electrical and Systems Engineering (ESE)Learn More
Daniel A. Levinthal
Reginald H. Jones Professor of Corporate StrategyLearn More
Brian Litt
Professor of Neurology; Bioengineering Director, Center for Neuroengineering and Therapeutics, University of PennsylvaniaLearn More
Lori Rosenkopf
Simon and Midge Palley Professor of Management; Vice Dean of EntrepreneurshipLearn More
John Swartley
Chief Innovation Officer, University of PennsylvaniaLearn More
John S. Swartley, MBA, PhD is the Chief Innovation Officer at the University of Pennsylvania responsible for implementing and leading a University-wide Innovation agenda in partnership with stakeholders across the institution. In this capacity, he works closely with Penn’s leadership and Deans, as well as key external partners, to help ensure that Penn continues to maintain its world-class status as an innovative leader in the field of technology development, translation, and commercialization. Dr. Swartley previously served for nearly a decade as Associate Vice Provost for Research and the Managing Director of the Penn Center for Innovation (PCI) at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) where he led a multi-faceted team that focuses on new product development, corporate partnerships, technology licensing and new venture creation based on faculty expertise and discoveries made at Penn.
Prior to joining Penn in 2007, Dr. Swartley served as Senior Vice President and General Partner of BCM Technologies (BCMT), the venture capital investment subsidiary of Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. Swartley joined BCMT in 2003 from the Yale University Office of Cooperative Research where he was Associate Director of the Medical Campus Office. Over the course of his career, Dr. Swartley has facilitated thousands of commercialization and research partnership agreements that have collectively generated close to five billion dollars in licensing income and sponsored research funding, as well as participating in the formation and oversight of hundreds of university spin-out companies representing multiple billions of dollars of capital creation. He holds a B.S. in Biology from Bates College, an MBA from the Goizueta School of Business at Emory University, and a PhD in Microbial & Molecular Genetics from Emory University.
Academic Senior Fellows
Aparajita Agarwal
Assistant Professor of Strategy, INSEADLearn More
Aparajita Agarwal is an incoming Assistant Professor of Strategy at INSEAD. She studies firm and entrepreneurial strategy in emerging markets with a focus on how firms leverage technology and data as a conduit for business growth, innovation, entrepreneurship and inclusive market creation. Her research is situated in institutionally challenging and resource constrained environments, such as those in emerging markets.
Her interest in these topics was sparked by more than a decade of industry experience at Boston Consulting Group, Amazon and other leading global firms with assignments spanning India, Africa and the UK. Aparajita holds a Ph.D. in Management from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore.
Daniel Albert
Assistant Professor of Management, Lebow Business School, Drexel UniversityLearn More
Daniel Albert is an Assistant Professor of Management at Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business. His research focuses on two main areas: (1) the impact of organizational structure on decision-making and strategic change, and (2) computational methods for studying cognition and complex decision-making. Within these areas, he also explores how large language models and other AI technologies can augment human decision-making.
Professor Albert’s work employs a variety of methods including empirical studies, agent-based modeling, and generative AI, with a particular focus on using AI as a new form of experimental simulation to study human cognition. In his teaching, he has substantially integrated AI as a decision-making tool, “5th team member,” and research tool, preparing students for the AI-augmented future of business.
Professor Albert holds a Ph.D. from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, and serves on Drexel University’s Standing Committee on Artificial Intelligence.
Parasuram Balasubramanian
Assistant Professor of Strategy, BITS School of ManagementLearn More
Parasuram Balasubramanian is an Assistant Professor of Strategy at BITS School of Management (BITSoM), located in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region in India. At BITSoM, Professor Balasubramanian teaches Economics of Strategy and Business Statistics in the MBA program. Previously he was faculty at Aalborg University Business School in Denmark. His research interests are at the intersection of strategy and policy with focus on corporate governance, non-market strategy, and competitive strategy.
Professor Balasubramanian received a PhD in Business Administration from Washington University in St. Louis. He has an undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Mumbai, and an MS in Finance from Gies College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prior to academia, he worked in investment banking and financial services in Mumbai.
Research Areas
Corporate governance, corporate sustainability, competitive strategy, digital public infrastructure and business formation, climate and health, causal inference
Joydeep Chatterjee
Assistant Professor of Professional Practice, Global Strategic Management, Rutgers Business SchoolLearn More
Joydeep Chatterjee received his PhD in Strategic Management from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He has an undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from Jadavpur University, Calcutta and an MBA in International Business from the George Washington University. At the George Washington University, he won the Global Leaders, and Potomac Fellowships and at Wharton he received the Mack Institute for Innovation Management, and Center for Leadership & Change Management Research Fellowships. Before embarking on his academic career, Professor Chatterjee worked as a Financial Analyst at the World Bank in Washington, DC and as a Software Consultant at Cognizant Technology Solutions in India and the U.S.
Research Areas
Global competition; dynamic capability development; evolution of corporate scope with special emphasis on the Information Technology Services sector
Andrea Contigiani
Assistant Professor of Management, Fisher College of Business, Ohio State UniversityLearn More
Andrea Contigiani (he/him) is an Assistant Professor of Management at the Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University. He received his PhD in Managerial Science and Applied Economics from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He studies innovation, using causal inference, machine learning, and field work. He teaches entrepreneurship in the undergraduate program and in the MBA. He advises startups on data, strategy, and funding.
Gary Dushnitsky
Associate Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, London Business SchoolLearn More
Anuja Gupta
Associate Professor, Villanova School of BusinessLearn More
Po-Hsuan Hsu
Tsing Hua Chair Professor and Yushan Fellow, College of Technology Management in National Tsing Hua University (NTHU)Learn More
Felipe Monteiro
Academic Director of the Global Talent Competitiveness Index; Senior Affiliate Professor of Strategy, INSEADLearn More
Charlotte Ren
Robert A. Fox Leadership International Faculty Director & Professor of Practice in Strategy and Innovation, Penn School of Arts and SciencesLearn More
Andy Wu
Arjun and Minoo Melwani Family Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business SchoolLearn More
Industry Senior Fellows
Alok Bardiya
Growth, Investments & M&A, WSO2Learn More
Jon DeGaynor
President and CEO, Methode ElectronicsLearn More
Junichi Endo
Advisor and Former SVP, M&S Japan-ASEAN, Nissan Motor Co., LtdLearn More
Claudio Garcia
President, Outthinker NetworksLearn More
Guru Gurushankar
Senior Vice President and General Manager, ColorTokensLearn More
Yann Lamarche
General Manager - International Markets, EmoviLearn More
Aswin Mannepalli
Founder, Mira InsightLearn More
Paul J. H. Schoemaker
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Scott Snyder
Chief Digital Officer, EVERSANA; Adjunct Faculty, School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of PennsylvaniaLearn More
Affiliate Faculty
Valentina Assenova
Edward B. and Shirley R. Shils Endowed Term Assistant Professor of ManagementLearn More
Valentina A. Assenova is the Edward B. and Shirley R. Shils Endowed Term Assistant Professor of Management at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. She serves as a Govil Family Faculty Scholar and faculty affiliate of the Mack Institute and the Penn Development Research Initiative. Dr. Assenova’s expertise spans entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship, with a focus on fostering economic development and inclusion.
She earned her Ph.D., M.A., and M.Phil. from Yale University, an M.B.A. with first-class honors in International Management from the University of Cambridge, and a B.Sc. in Economics with honors from the Wharton School, where she was an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow and Joseph Wharton Research Scholar.
Dr. Assenova’s research explores three key areas: (1) the impact of accelerators and incubators on entrepreneurial learning and enterprise development, (2) strategies to promote entrepreneurship as a tool for economic development in emerging economies, and (3) the influence of formal and informal institutions on entrepreneurial activity across regions. Her interdisciplinary approach blends theory and practice, providing valuable insights into the challenges and opportunities faced by early-stage startups and micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in diverse institutional settings.
Mobile Money as a Stepping Stone to Financial Inclusion: How Digital Multisided Platforms Fill Institutional Voids, Organization Science
Susanna Berkouwer
Assistant Professor of Business Economics and Public PolicyLearn More
Britta Glennon
Assistant Professor of ManagementLearn More
Britta Glennon is an Assistant Professor of Management at the Wharton School. She received a Ph.D. in Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon University, and previously received a M.P.P in Public Policy from the University of Chicago and a B.A. in Economics and East Asian Studies from Cornell University. Her research is at the intersection of innovation, immigration, and international business and has been featured in media outlets such as The Economist, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and Bloomberg.
Research Spotlight
J. Daniel Kim
Assistant Professor of ManagementLearn More
When Do Startups Scale? Large-scale Evidence from Job Postings, Strategic Management Journal
Saerom (Ronnie) Lee
Assistant Professor of ManagementLearn More
Rahul Mangharam
Associate Professor of Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of PennsylvaniaLearn More
Serguei Netessine
Dhirubhai Ambani Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Operations, Information and Decisions); Senior Vice Dean for Innovation and Global InitiativesLearn More
Stefano Puntoni
Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing; Co-Director, AI at WhartonLearn More
Manav Raj
Assistant Professor of ManagementLearn More
Manav Raj is an Assistant Professor of Management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. His research studies are: a) how firms respond to innovation and technological change, with a focus on digital platforms and technologies; and b) how institutional features and non-market forces affect innovation and entrepreneurship. Prof. Raj graduated from Dartmouth College in 2015, with a major in Economics and a minor in Public Policy. Prior to entering the Ph.D. program at NYU, he worked as a consultant with Cornerstone Research in Boston.
Research Spotlight
Quick or Broad Patents? Evidence from U.S. Startups, The Review of Financial Studies
Lynn Wu
Associate Professor of Operations, Information and DecisionsLearn More
Lynn Wu is an Associate Professor at the Wharton School, where she teaches courses on the impact of emerging technologies in business. Her research focuses on how AI, analytics, and digital platforms influence innovation, strategy, labor, and productivity. She also uses digital data to predict economic trends like real estate and labor markets.
Her work has been widely published and featured in media outlets such as NPR, The Wall Street Journal, and The Economist. She has received numerous accolades, including Early Career Awards from INFORMS and AIS, and the Dean’s Teaching Award.
Prof. Wu earned her undergraduate and master’s degrees in Finance and Computer Science and her Ph.D. in Management Science from MIT. Before academia, she worked as a software engineer and research scientist at MIT AI Lab and IBM and has advised leading tech firms, startups, and government agencies on innovation and technology.
Research Spotlight
Innovation Strategy After IPO: How AI Analytics Spurs Innovation After IPO, Management Science
Staff
Terri Butrymowicz
Program ManagerLearn More
Terri is the Program Manager for the Mack Institute. She works to implement the institute’s programming and events on an operational level. Terri received her BS in Marketing from Philadelphia University and has an extensive background in event planning and program management. Prior to joining the Mack Institute, Terri worked for a healthcare publishing company for eight years as a coordinator for their national job fair and tradeshow programs, and for a continuing education program for nursing and allied health professionals.
Kate Fitz-Henry
Administrative CoordinatorLearn More
As Administrative Coordinator for the Mack Institute, Kate wears whichever hat the moment requires, assisting her colleagues with projects and events while maintaining up-to-date contact lists and full office supply cupboards. Kate received her BA in Spanish from Earlham College, and came to the Mack Institute after nine years as Assistant Bursar at a small college in upstate New York. Previous to that, she coordinated finances and events for an organization that provided grants and ongoing professional education for primary and secondary school teachers. She also fondly recalls her early years as a photo lab technician.
Valentina Goutorova
Senior Associate Director of Innovation EcosystemsLearn More
Valentina leads the Mack Institute’s efforts on fostering innovation ecosystems across Penn, Philadelphia, and beyond. Her work focuses on supporting the commercialization of academic research, promoting translational and collaborative projects, and connecting the University with the local startup ecosystem. Before joining the Mack Institute, Valentina directed co-curricular programming at Penn’s Venture Lab, where she mentored hundreds of students—innovators, founders, and joiners—helping them explore and refine their entrepreneurial interests. She holds an MBA and a Master’s in Healthcare Administration from Cleveland State University.
Joe Nebistinsky
Senior Associate Director for Industry EngagementLearn More
Emma Needleman
Marketing & Communications CoordinatorLearn More
Emma helps the Mack Institute communicate with the Penn community and the larger world. From publicizing events to spotlighting new research, she seeks to creatively communicate the Mack mission of collaborative innovation. Emma holds a BA and MA in English literature and has worked extensively in nonprofit and digital communications.