Mack Institute News Archives

What Drives Innovation in Health Care?

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

The Case for Building an API Inventory

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

Saikat Chaudhuri Appointed Interim Director of Penn Dual-Degree Program

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

How to Cultivate Innovation for the Long Run

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

Faculty Directors Honored with Excellence in Teaching Awards

Three of our faculty directors have been honored with 2015 Excellence in Teaching Awards.…Read More

The Bright Side of the Biotech Funding Bust

Biotech start-ups are a critical source of life-saving discoveries. What happens when VCs won’t fund them?…Read More

Y-Prize Competitors Making News

Recent Y-Prize winners and finalists have used the competition as a launching pad to pursue even bigger and better opportunities.…Read More

Saikat Chaudhuri At NASDAQ Opening Bell

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

How Nokia Can Make the Most of the Alcatel-Lucent Deal

Executive Director Saikat Chaudhuri spoke with Knowledge@Wharton about Nokia’s high-profile merger with French firm Alcatel-Lucent.…Read More

Sidney Winter Receives 2015 Global Award for Entrepreneurial Research

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

TedxPenn 2015: 10x the Impact

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

Next Semester, Put Real Innovation to Work

Every major firm faces innovation challenges. We’re looking for the students who want to tackle them.…Read More

For Best Customer Insights, Ask Them How They Feel. But Don’t Actually Ask Them.

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…Read More