Here’s a generalization we feel pretty safe making: Every successful company achieves its success by figuring out how to deliver a particular product or a service better than anyone else previously has. Here’s another one: Unless that company can keep figuring out how to do that, its success is going to be short-lived. It’s only as strong as its ability to stay ahead of the next new thing.…Read More
Three of our faculty directors have been honored with 2015 Excellence in Teaching Awards.…Read More
Biotech start-ups are a critical source of life-saving discoveries. What happens when VCs won’t fund them?…Read More
Recent Y-Prize winners and finalists have used the competition as a launching pad to pursue even bigger and better opportunities.…Read More
Our Executive Director Saikat Chaudhuri had the honor of taking part in the NASDAQ opening ceremony on Tuesday, April 28, 2015. See photos and video from the event.…Read More
Executive Director Saikat Chaudhuri spoke with Knowledge@Wharton about Nokia’s high-profile merger with French firm Alcatel-Lucent.…Read More
The Mack Institute is proud to announce that our core team member and Wharton professor emeritus Sidney G. Winter is the 2015 recipient of the Global Award for Entrepreneurial Research.…Read More
The Mack Institute is proud to be a sponsor of TedxPenn. For the past ten months, a team of 30 undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Pennsylvania quietly worked to create the biggest TEDx event the school has ever seen.…Read More
Every major firm faces innovation challenges. We’re looking for the students who want to tackle them.…Read More
How Technology is Transforming Market Research Take a typical adult to an ice cream parlor, says Richard Thorogood, and before making a choice they’ll weigh as many factors as there are flavors. “Well, I kind of want strawberry,” they’ll think, “but I always get strawberry, so maybe I should try…Read More
Mobile and social technology have introduced a major cultural shift in the way we communicate. Why companies need to tailor their market research strategies – and their cycle times – accordingly.…Read More
Mack Institute core team member and co-founder of the annual Y-Prize competition Vijay Kumar has been named dean of Penn Engineering.…Read More
We are thrilled to introduce our two new associate directors, Joe Nebistinsky and Samantha Ortiz.…Read More
Penn’s new NSF I-Corps Site officially launched on February 24th, kicking off the summer accelerator program designed to spur commercialization of university research.…Read More
Executives from the new company Avia explain how their innovation cohort model helps struggling health systems while creating new marketplaces for entrepreneurs.…Read More
The Mack Institute Fall Conference 2014 examined how rapid advances in technology continuously change the way that organizations innovate.…Read More
In new research sponsored by the Mack Institute, Rahul Kapoor and coauthor Thomas Klueter analyze how alliance-based strategies may help companies successfully manage the challenge of disruptive technology.…Read More
The Mack Institute is pleased to announce its support of the university’s new NSF Innovation Corps Site.…Read More
Crowdfunding has exploded in popularity since 2009, and its pace shows no signs of slowing. Funded researcher Ethan Mollick argues that this trend poses important implications for established firms as well as entrepreneurs.…Read More
Read an excerpt of the new book, “Winning The Long Game: How Strategic Leaders Shape The Future,” co-authored by Research Director Paul Schoemaker. …Read More
