Congratulations to the four student teams chosen as finalists for this year’s Y-Prize competition: Serpent, EmBrace, Agentis and Stentix! The Y-Prize competition challenges students to build their entrepreneurial skills by creating business plans for technologies invented at Penn Engineering. The team with the best commercial application wins $10,000 to help make…Read More
AI-Driven Innovation Fall 2024 Conference Report Artificial Intelligence has emerged as one of the most transformative technologies of our time, reshaping industries and redefining the competitive landscape. Yet the complexities and costs associated with AI development and deployment, coupled with the uncertainty of value creation, make it clear that no…Read More 
Friday, November 8, 2024 The Wharton School, Philadelphia The Mack Institute is pleased to announce our Fall 2024 conference, AI-Driven Innovation Ecosystems. Bringing together leading Wharton researchers with expert business practitioners, this one-day conference will explore how firms can overcome the risks and high costs of AI development and implementation…Read More
The Y-Prize Competition kicked off this week with a well-attended event held in Steinberg-Dietrich Hall. Now in its thirteenth year, the Y-Prize challenges students to hone their entrepreneurial skills by creating business plans using cutting-edge technology developed at Penn Engineering. The team that comes up with the most promising commercial…Read More
Collaborative Innovation: Shaping the Future with Corporate Venturing and Startups Spring 2024 Conference Report In this era of rapidly evolving, highly disruptive technologies, corporate venturing practices are evolving, too. High-profile partnerships like Microsoft’s $13 billion investment in OpenAI or BMW’s move into the electrification space with ChargePoint underscore the current…Read More 
Panelists Steven Nichtberger, Jen Gilburg, John Swartley, and Tempest Carter On April 24, the Mack Institute, together with Philadelphia’s Department of Commerce, presented Tech Talks, a panel discussion with government officials and entrepreneurs on how Penn and Wharton can help solidify the city’s future as a leader in innovation and…Read More
Join Us For Tech Talks: Bridging Academia and Innovation in Philly's Tech Hub Wednesday, April 24 | 6:00 p.m. 8th Floor, Jon M. Huntsman Hall 3730 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19104 Join us at the University of Pennsylvania for an event co-organized by the Mack Institute for Innovation Management and the City of Philadelphia Department of…Read More 
Friday, March 22, 2024 The Wharton School, Philadelphia The Mack Institute is pleased to announce our Spring 2024 conference, Collaborative Innovation: Shaping the Future with Corporate Venturing and Startups. In this era of transformative and disruptive new technologies, the relationship between established firms and startups is becoming more collaborative. These…Read More
Congratulations to LilyLoop, winners of this year’s $10,000 Y-Prize! The team of first-year undergrads proposed a commercial application for Penn’s biodegradeable moisture sensors: a line of “smart” period products that alerts users when to change tampons and captures menstrual flow data for diagnostic purposes. One in five American women suffers…Read More
Our recent conference, Driving Innovation with Generative AI, brought together representatives from academia, industry, startups, and the venture capital world to explore how this new technology is changing the business world. Read the full report on the conference here, then check out these deep dives into our expert panels. Tracking…Read More 
The stratospheric rise of Generative AI platforms like ChatGPT and Bard has brought artificial intelligence to the forefront of innovation management. Driving Innovation with Generative AI, a conference jointly presented by the Mack Institute and AI at Wharton, brought together representatives from academia, industry, startups, and the venture capital world…Read More
Interested in attending our Fall '23 Conference, Driving Innovation with Generative AI: Strategies and Execution? Please fill out the form below and someone will be in touch. Details: Friday, November 10 The Wharton School, Philadelphia PA 
The Mack Institute and AI at Wharton are pleased to announce our joint Fall 2023 conference, Driving Innovation with Generative AI: Strategies and Execution. Inspired by the explosive interest in generative AI platforms like ChatGPT and Bard, this event will bring together representatives from academia and industry to discuss this…Read More
The semester is underway — and so is this year’s Y-Prize competition! For twelve years, the Y-Prize competition has challenged students to build their entrepreneurial skills. Students team up to create business plans using technology invented at Penn Engineering. The team with the best commercial application wins $10,000 to help…Read More
Executive Summary: Our Spring ‘23 conference, “Creative Disruption? Innovations in Supply Chain Management,” highlighted the challenges and opportunities faced by global supply chains in the wake of unprecedented disruptions. Speakers from academia and industry discussed such themes as the balance between efficiency and resilience, the role of advanced technologies in…Read More 
Will ChatGPT take my job? Does the rise of AI mean should I change my college major? We gathered together three of Wharton and Penn’s leading experts on artificial intelligence to discuss how LLMs like ChatGPT will impact the workplace and education in the future. Watch the full video above.…Read More
Join us for a webinar on Thursday, June 1, at 2:00 p.m. This event has passed. View recording here. Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT have emerged as a game-changing general-purpose technology with tremendous social implications and challenges. Wharton faculty have been on the forefront of these developments from the…Read More
The Penn Wharton Commercialization Workshop returned for the first time since 2019, offering a three-day event tailored to faculty, scientists, clinicians, and post-docs looking to commercialize their research and launch a new venture. The event, a partnership between the Mack Institute and the Office of the Vice Provost for Research,…Read More
In recent years, events like the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ukraine war, and U.S. tensions with China have dramatically impacted global supply chains, drawing attention to their vulnerabilities and calling into question the widespread industry practice of prioritizing supply chain efficiency over resilience and crisis preparation. As firms continue to weather…Read More
Emerging metaverse technologies have equally passionate evangelists and skeptics, making it hard to separate hype from reality. Facebook was the subject of buzzy media headlines when it rebranded to Meta, but now faces plummeting stock and mass layoffs. At the same time, investors continue to pour billions into metaverse-related technology…Read More
