At the Mack Institute Fall Conference, speakers shared valuable insight about how their respective businesses are trying to maintaining customer satisfaction while responding to the disruption created by software and technology.…Read More
A new study reveals the surprisingly pivotal role that narratives play when organizations forge a new strategic direction.…Read More
The Y-Prize is a competition in which student teams propose innovative commercial applications for technology invented by University of Pennsylvania researchers.We are thrilled to introduce the finalists in the 2014-2015 Competition.…Read More
Increasing competition, global markets and customers who are in control define today’s business environment. Many organizations are missing opportunities to gain a deeper perspective of their customers and business, be the first to act on trends and most importantly, seize new revenues and cut costs.…Read More
The Mack Institute’s Collaborative Innovation Program (CIP) pairs corporate partners with Penn students to tackle real-world business challenges.…Read More
One key piece of the Mack Institute’s mission is to enable innovation across the Penn community. To that end, on November 7th the institute hosted the first of its Innovation Clinics, a workshop series aimed at the intersection of medicine, engineering, and business.…Read More
Fifteen years into her legal career, Kelly Brown could see that the legal landscape was experiencing changes that were accelerating the need to innovate and transforming law firms into more complex businesses. She wanted to place herself at the forefront of innovation in her field.…Read More
While much of the country was staying up late on the first Tuesday in November to watch election results roll in, for Mack Institute staffers the night after was the real nail-biter. This was the deadline for entries in the Y-Prize, and our anticipation was well rewarded.…Read More
Mack Institute Senior Fellow Scott Snyder discusses how mobile technology is disrupting marketplaces and organizations in unprecedented ways. What’s behind this seismic shift, and what should companies do about it?…Read More
In crowdsourcing contests, choices about contest structure affect both number and quality of entries. Funded Researcher Pinar Yildrim shares knowledge about how firms can get their ideal results by manipulating contest structure.…Read More
Following a decade of unprofitable acquisition decisions, Hewlett-Packard is trying a new tack—splitting the company in two. In an interview with BloombergBusinessWeek, Saikat Chaudhuri discussed the merits and malfunctions of HP’s deals in years past. …Read More
The Y-Prize Competition asks students to take a fresh approach to the challenge of inventing new applications for Penn research. At last week’s Kick-Off, students from diverse corners of the Penn community gathered in the Singh Center for Nanotechnology.…Read More
Over the summer of 2014, the Mack Institute worked with student Karan Juvekar on a guided project examining the market potential of Uber. In this guest post, Karan explores the reasons behind Uber’s success and the risks and opportunities in its future.…Read More
The Mack Institute is proud to announce the opening of the third annual Y-Prize competition.…Read More
Terry Fadem, a Mack Institute Senior Fellow, researches the aggregate effect of questions, and the errors, problems, and benefits that they produce. Through hundreds of surveys and interviews, he’s gathered data on how managers ask questions and deal with the answers.…Read More
Gita Surie explains how half of India’s population has little or no access to reliable energy, which means that 600 million people in rural India have a significant problem.…Read More
According to George Day, top businesses have a lot in common with top athletes. His research examines the qualities that separate “growth leaders” from “growth laggards” — in other words, the qualities that separate average or failing companies from those that achieve Olympic-level success.…Read More
An overview of the past year’s activities, and what we’re looking forward to in the year ahead.…Read More
Wharton faculty discuss the term “disruptive innovation,” assessing its intended use and where that use has gone astray due to misapplications of the concept. …Read More
With outsourcing growing and core capabilities contracting, is hierarchy becoming a thing of the past? Faculty from the Mack Institute talk corporate hierarchies today versus in the past.…Read More
