Mack Institute News Archives

Volkswagen’s Scandal and the Bumpy Road to Redemption

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

Bridging the Gap for Mental Health Professionals

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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

George Day Now Faculty Emeritus in Residence

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Mack Institute Co-Director George Day has retired from The Wharton School, but remains as involved as ever with the Mack Institute.…Read More

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

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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

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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

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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

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

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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

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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

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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

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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