Nelson Mandela’s life story has long since become a legend, one that transcends borders, race, language, or culture. His leadership truly belongs to the world. Paul J. H. Schoemaker, Research Director of the Mack Institute visited South Africa this year, to meet with government and business leaders to discuss Nelson…Read More
A profile of Mack Institute Executive Director and Adjunct Associate Professor of Management Saikat Chaudhuri was recently featured in PaGalGuy’s MBA Abroad Channel. In the interview, Chaudhuri describes his involvement with the Mack Institute and how he hopes to expand the Institute’s reach through the addition of new programs and…Read More
The Wharton Social Impact Club, one of several student-run organizations and events that is sponsored by the Mack Institute, hosted the Wharton Social Impact Conference at The Wharton School on November 15. In this guest blog post originally published in the Huffington Post, conference co-chair Shenin Singh shares how she…Read More
A recent Philadelphia Inquirer article cites Mack Institute Executive Director Saikat Chaudhuri as an authority regarding the mounting pressure on the U.S. Justice Department to approve the US Airways-American Airlines merger. In the article, Chaudhuri compares the circumstances surrounding this ongoing antitrust case with those of a similar contested acquisition from January.…Read More
Wharton Professor of Practice David Robertson, who spoke on the same topic at the Mack Institute’s June 2012 conference, was published in the October 2013 issue of Wired Magazine. In the article, Robertson describes how Lego learned from its flawed attempts at approaching innovation, stressing that companies should not lose…Read More
Mack Institute Executive Director Saikat Chaudhuri was cited in a recent LiveMint and the Wall Street Journal article that described a recent deal made in the Indian aviation market. Chaudhuri provided additional insight regarding Tata Sons’ simultaneous investments in two varying business models while expressing his viewpoint that Air India would benefit…Read More
Core team member and Wharton professor Karl Ulrich published a recent article in the Wall Street Journal. The article tackles the issue of organizational difficulties in companies. In this case, Ulrich says that this is because companies are not pursuing innovation the right way. He stresses the importance of incremental…Read More
Mack Institute co-director and Wharton professor Harbir Singh was featured in an article in Outsource Magazine. Singh was honored as one of the Academics of Outsourcing for the month of September, along with Jeffrey H. Dyer, a professor at Brigham Young University. The article cited Singh and Dyer’s paper, “The Relational…Read More
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
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 Selecting Exceptional Opportunities as a new program for first-year MBA…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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
