This year, the Mack Institute teamed up with Darden’s Batten Institute to co-host the bi-annual Product Innovation and Technology Management Mini-Conference. The sixth iteration of this one-day event attracted more than 30 scholars to the Wharton School for lectures, discussions, and camaraderie.…Read More
70 million Americans lack access to traditional banking services. Instead, those in a financially precarious position often must resort to predatory alternatives such as payday lenders. The winners of the 2015 Penn Design Challenge, sponsored by the Mack Institute, describe their approach to changing this system. …Read More
Information sessions for the President’s Innovation Prize will run in the Spring 2016 semester between Thursday, January 14 and Tuesday, February 9.…Read More
After years of making incremental changes to transform itself from a personal computer and server player into a company that could offer a wider array of products and services, Dell is punting its piecemeal approach in favor of a system-wide repositioning of its business by acquiring storage behemoth EMC for $67 billion — the largest M&A deal ever between technology firms.…Read More
As the Internet penetrates more and more aspects of day-to-day life, a company’s regulatory strategy has an increasingly significant impact on its innovation outcomes.…Read More
New research indicates that individuals’ investment decisions may outperform those of the group. How can firms make better decisions?…Read More
Wendy Ham’s research asks whether there’s a better way to make predictions. By examining event characteristics and forecasting methods, she argues that it’s possible to create a cheat sheet that tells us which forecasting approach is the best for a given problem.…Read More
Wharton management professor and PVMI director John Paul MacDuffie analyzes the fallout after automotive giant Volkswagen admitted to cheating on EPA admissions tests.…Read More
Wharton MBA student Mariam Malik has long had an interest in mental health care. Through the Mack Institute Student Research Fellowship, she crafted a business plan to help service providers deliver improved care through greater coordination.…Read More
Mack Institute Co-Director George Day has retired from The Wharton School, but remains as involved as ever with the Mack Institute.…Read More
If you’ve ever thought that the quest for more clicks is affecting the sorts of articles that get published in the media, Wharton marketing professor Pinar Yildirim wants you to know that you’re right. But it’s not quite the overarching impact that you might expect. …Read More
MBA Research Fellow Neil Assur tackled the nebulous challenge of finding new opportunities for business innovation in the nutrition space. Here’s what he learned about entrepreneurship and the unexpected places it can lead.…Read More
APIs have been strictly part of IT’s “inside game,” providing the glue for data and software integration within the enterprise. No more. Tyson Whitten of CA Technologies offers five key points that C-level leadership needs to understand.…Read More
New research by Wharton faculty Harbir Singh, Peter Cappelli, and Michael Useem reveals how Chinese business leaders are learning from their Western counterparts, and how they’re forging their own paths. …Read More
Wharton management professor Exequiel Hernandez searches for the optimal mix of domestic and foreign partners in a firm’s network. The answer depends on what type of innovative solution a firm is trying to produce.…Read More
To be more innovative, organizations need to adopt the practice of testing and experimenting with new ideas. Nate Fink of Microsoft Yammer explains why abolishing the fear of failure is essential to this process.…Read More
Our most recent conference examined the intangible factors that can make or break a company’s innovation outcomes.…Read More
Hospitals and academic medical centers are hiring chief innovation officers to transform the way they deliver care. But what makes an effective CIO in this industry?…Read More
In this guest post, Cameron van Orman of CA Technologies explains why companies should invest energy in building “a complete, well-taxonomized API catalog.”…Read More
Effective July 1, Mack Institute Executive Director Saikat Chaudhuri will serve as Interim Director of Penn’s M&T program, succeeding Bill Hamilton.…Read More
