In Inc Magazine this week, Mack Institute Research Director Paul Schoemaker comments on making the most of the “band of wise advisers” that comprise your organization’s board of directors. Here’s a snippet: Presidents have their cabinets and staffs. Queens have their courtiers and ministers. As an entrepreneur, you have, well,…Read More
Innovation Tournaments, published by Karl Ulrich and Christian Terwiesch. The Mack Institute is proud to announce that Bloomberg Businessweek published an article with core team members and Wharton professors Karl Ulrich and Christian Terwiesch. The article, which discussed innovation in MBA orientation programs, cited the professors' book, Innovation Tournaments: Creating and…Read More 
The Mack Institute is proud to announce that Executive Director Saikat Chaudhuri was recently in a LiveMint and the Wall Street Journal article that explored the privatization of airports in India. In the article, Chaudhuri provided his insight on the issue, explaining the industry’s need for appropriate business models and correct partners…Read More
The world of advertising just got a whole lot smaller. On July 27, Omnicom and Publicis announced that they will merge to create the world’s largest advertising firm, with a stock market value of $35 billion and 130,000 employees. The news came as a shock to the advertising world, which…Read More
It’s strange to think that I’m part of the mobile generation. We’re glued to the phones that we tote around in our daily life, hyperconnected to everything and everyone in the world. Years ago, companies would have scoffed at the idea of mobile. But now, firms are doing anything but.…Read More
John Paul MacDuffie, Director of the Program on Vehicle and Mobility Innovation (PVMI) at the Mack Institute, recently co-authored a Harvard Business Review article titled “How to Drive Value Your Way” with London Business School faculty member Michael G. Jacobides. In this blog post, the authors share a preview of…Read More
There’s a hard line to toe between fashion and function. Google knows all about it. The company released Google Glass—essentially, computerized eyewear— in February of this year. Ultimately, Google’s goal is to create a ubiquitous computer available for mass production and consumption. Instead of lenses, the Glass uses a head-up…Read More
This year’s Emerging Scholars Workshop brought together 21 early-career researchers for a week of intensive study and debate on evolutionary theories and their applications to strategic management. We spoke with 2013 participant Kevin Miceli about his experience of the program. Why did you apply for ESW and what did you…Read More
The Mack Institute for Innovation Management is pleased to announce that Saikat Chaudhuri has been named Executive Director of the Institute. Dr. Chaudhuri, who is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Management at the Wharton School, will be the first Executive Director of the Institute. As the Executive Director, Dr. Chaudhuri…Read More
This is a guest post by Professor Dan Levinthal, organizer of Emerging Scholars Workshop 2013. The Mack Institute, with support from the Kauffman Foundation, has just held the second Emerging Scholars Workshop. This is an exciting new program that brings together 20 outstanding doctoral students from leading programs (INSEAD, Harvard,…Read More
The Mack Institute and the Wharton School are pleased to announce a major gift from William L. and Phyllis Mack to permanently endow the Mack Institute for Innovation Management. William L. Mack, W’61, is Chair of the Wharton Board of Overseers, and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Mack-Cali…Read More
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
Mack Institute funded researcher Adam Grant. 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…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
