Mack Institute Co-Director George Day has retired from The Wharton School, but remains as involved as ever with the Mack Institute.…Read More
George Day Now Faculty Emeritus in Residence
Mack Institute News
How Much Is Web Traffic Changing the News You Read?
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
Cooking Up New Business Opportunities in Nutrition
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
Five Things to Tell Your CEO about APIs
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
Wharton Researchers on Chinese Business Leadership
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
The First Step to Successful Innovation? Choosing the Right Partners
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
“All Effective Innovations are Derived from a Profound Understanding of the User”
The “experience engineering” approach to innovation encourages designers to think about the series of emotions a user needs to feel in order to buy a product. Elisa Jagerson, CEO of Speck Design, argues that managers need to adopt a similar approach when trying to establish a culture of innovation.…Read More
To Create a Culture of Innovation, Learn to Celebrate Failure
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
Leadership, Talent, and Culture: How to Win the Long Game in Innovation
Our most recent conference examined the intangible factors that can make or break a company’s innovation outcomes.…Read More
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