Spring semester may be over, but for a small group of Penn students, the lab is now their second home. This year, the Mack Institute is once again sponsoring Penn’s International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) student team. iGEM is a large undergraduate synthetic biology competition in which students use standard…Read More
Mack Institute Research Director Paul Schoemaker was recently interviewed by the Gordon Institute of Business Science. In the interview, he speaks broadly about strategic leadership in business. He explains how learning experiences from failure are essential, and elaborates on building strengths in leadership and his book, Brilliant Mistakes: Finding Success…Read More
On Monday July 15, Wharton’s Global Initiatives Program will welcome Singapore Management University Executive MBA students for a week of intensive classes and company visits. The students will engage in sessions about corporate strategy and supply chain management. Mack Institute Co-director Harbir Singh is Wharton’s Vice Dean for Global Intiatives…Read More
Business2Community recently interviewed Wharton professor and Mack Institute funded researcher Adam Grant on the principles he illustrates in his new book, Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success, and how they apply to the work environment. In the interview, Grant emphasizes the importance of building relationships, mentorship, and the…Read More
David Heckman, practice leader, senior management at the Wharton School’s Aresty Institute of Executive Education, recently spoke with Mack Institute Co-director George Day about why innovation prowess is the key to growth leadership. The interview addresses the questions that Professor Day explores in his latest book Innovation Prowess: Leadership Strategies…Read More
If I had a nickel for every time I forgot to recycle, I would approach Richard Branson status. But even Branson himself, the billionaire founder of Virgin Group, has taken the initiative to promote more responsible behavior when it comes to our planet, a move that Wharton-sponsored research says could…Read More
Mack Institute funded researcher and Wharton professor Adam Grant recently published his book Give and Take. An excerpt of the book was published in Psychology Today and expands on maximizing the benefits of one’s network for success. Grant’s book is a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller.
Confession time: I used to want to be a novelist. Reading was my vice growing up, and I dreamed of riding my own stories—scrawled in old marble notebooks, no less— to fame and fortune. What need did I have for college? Kurt Vonnegut’s study of mechanical engineering surely didn’t help…Read More
There is a perfect storm for disruption being created by the convergence of mobile, social, and cloud technologies and applications. This was a major theme of the Mack Institute’s Spring Conference on May 30, entitled How Mobile and Social are Transforming Innovation Models: Flipping the Paradigm? This was the Mack…Read More
My generation consumes media at a startlingly rapid pace, bouncing between audio, video, text, and back again in the blink of an eye. This behavior, termed ‘media multiplexing‘ in recent Mack Institute funded research, reflects a distinctive generational mindset that is entirely reconfiguring how music is marketed. Instead of trying…Read More
George Day is featured in the May/June edition of The European Business Review in an article titled “The 3 C’s of Growth Leadership: Culture, Capabilities, and Configuration.” Professor Day’s article provides insight on how companies can increase their potential for innovation by attending to the three C’s: culture, capabilities, and configuration. Read…Read More
In March 2013, Gita Surie, a senior fellow with the Mack Institute, was honored with a Fulbright Fellowship. The award will allow Professor Surie to travel to different parts of India, continuing her research on how green technologies are making basic necessities such as power and clean water more accesible in…Read More
Choosing new eyeglasses can be an overwhelming task— and this is something I can say with conviction, from personal experience. When you enter a store, you’re bombarded by what seems like hundreds of different frames. You’re left to your own peril and the counsel of the salesperson who is the…Read More
Michael Mandel discusses the implications of the nomination of a new Federal Communications Commission (FCC) head for domestic mobile broadband regulation in an article co-authored by Diana G. Carew. As Mandel and his co-author illustrate, the regulatory framework governing mobile broadband has gone undecided for several years. What is at…Read More
The Wharton School has announced the appointment of William L. Mack, founder of the Mack Institute for Innovation Management, as Chair of Wharton’s Board of Overseers. The Mack Institute was established in 2001 through a generous gift from Mr. Mack and his wife, Phyllis, whose longstanding support of the Wharton…Read More
Paul Schoemaker discusses ways for companies to better understand their customers in his latest article for Inc. Magazine. In this article, which was co-authored with Steve Krupp, CEO of Decision Strategies International, and had some input from Wharton Professor George S. Day, Schoemaker describes the current environment, in which customers…Read More
Karl Ulrich is part of a group known as The Experts, an exclusive group of industry and thought leaders who engage in in-depth online discussions for the Wall Street Journal. In the latest installment, Ulrich talks about ways to test new business ideas and suggests three criteria to determining their…Read More
I didn’t exactly arrive at Wharton expecting to dive into academic research, but when I read the description of the Mack Center MBA Research Fellowship, it sounded too interesting not to apply. The fellowship supports students interested in analyzing (and eventually writing about) an industry or technology where innovation is…Read More
Mack Center core team member Saikat Chaudhuri spoke to Knowledge@Wharton about the recent United Arab Emirates purchase of a 24% stake in India’s Jet Airways. As Air India complains of “unfair competition,” Chaudhuri observed that “external shocks,” such as the Jet Airways deal, could derail the initial signs of a…Read More
“Neither a borrower nor a lender be; for loan oft loses both itself and friend.” Polonius’s sage advice handed down throughout the generations lost its urgency for Penn students a year ago. Venmo, a startup by Penn graduates Andrew Kortina and Iqram Magdon-Ismail, has revolutionized reciprocity between friends by making…Read More
