Nearly 100 University of Pennsylvania freshmen and sophomores tackled a challenge at Citi with finance, technology, and strategy themes.…Read More
2021 Citi x Mack Institute Case Competition Presented Real-World Business Challenge
Student Post
Interdisciplinary Teams Compete in Wharton Innovation & Design Club’s Coronavirus Innovation Challenge
The annual healthcare innovation challenge asked student teams to consider how to better connect groups with limited online presence to essential healthcare/vaccine services, given the impacts of COVID-19?…Read More
FemmeHacks Offers Inclusive Computer Science and Tech Experience
A guest post by organizers about 2021 FemmeHacks, which aims to empower, educate, and inspire women and non-binary individuals across the nation.…Read More
Innovation Pathways: An Engineer Maps a Path to Entrepreneurship
Mohit Patel MSE’20 believes engineers need to learn core management concepts in order to make a real difference in today’s business world.…Read More
Innovation Pathways: Becoming an Effective Change Agent
Through Mack Institute’s Collaborative Innovation Program, Army officer Bethany Dumas WG’21 gained “eye-opening” insights into private sector innovation.…Read More
Innovation Pathways: Managing Innovation Through Collaboration
Vineet Agarwal WG’20 talks key takeaways from his experience with product development, global teams, and adopting new technologies.…Read More
Innovation Pathways: Combining Two Approaches for Customer Solutions
Vaibhav Katkade WG’20 finds merit in blending structured and unstructured methods to effectively identify and solve the most pressing customer problems.…Read More
Innovation Pathways: Tapping Into the Power of Data Analytics
Matt Gates WG’21 talks about the power of data analytics and working in teams with a diversity of backgrounds and skill sets.…Read More
Innovation Pathways: Start With Design Thinking
Isoken (Iso) Igbinedion WG’21 talks Amazon Prime Now, customer and employee engagement, a future of entrepreneurship, and more.…Read More
Innovation Pathways: Finding Team Success Through Diversity of Experience
For our Innovation Pathways series, Jess Stokes WG’21 talks about pivots and trade-off decisions, design thinking, and commitment to social impact and sustainability.…Read More
Innovation Pathways: Financial Services Takeaways Transfer to Healthcare
Social policy graduate student Linya Liu explains why she aimed to outperform delivery expectations during Mack Institute’s Collaborative Innovation Program.…Read More
Fintech Challenge Winners Offer Solution for the Retirement of the Future
The winners of the 2019 Vanguard Innovation Challenge describe “Ralph,” the retirement planning tool they designed to serve non-traditional employees.…Read More
Innovation Pathways: An Engineering Student Finds a New Career Direction
Engineering graduate student Rahul Sharma explains why the Mack Institute’s Collaborative Innovation Program was a “critical step” in his studies at Penn.…Read More
Innovation Pathways: Jacob Rieber on Student Projects That Make a Real Impact
Jacob Rieber is drawn to studying innovation management due to its “intersection of creativity, problem-solving, and novelty.”…Read More
Insurance Professional Gets Opportunity to Put Behavioral Science Theory Into Practice
Participating in the Collaborative Innovation Program gave John Thiel the “helpful applied insight that I had been seeking.”…Read More
What You Can Learn About Innovation by Talking to Florists, Accountants, and More
Student Lauren Gaudreau describes how a Collaborative Innovation Program team considered an ideal customer service model for a financial services company.…Read More
‘The Very Beginning’ of One Team’s Social Entrepreneurship Journey
The winners of the 2018 Hult Prize at Penn introduce PEER, their platform connecting underprivileged youth with mentors of similar backgrounds, and share what they learned along the way to the regional competition.…Read More
Excitement Around Blockchain Grows with Inaugural Penn Conference
The first-ever Penn Blockchain Conference drew 41 speakers and over 300 attendees to discuss the future of blockchain technology.…Read More
2018 Healthcare Innovation Challenge Applies Design Thinking to Penn Medicine’s Online Patient Portal
Interdisciplinary student teams applied design thinking to improve patient engagement with Penn’s personalized healthcare management site, MyPennMedicine.…Read More
WUFT Hacks Brings Financial Innovation to Penn Undergrads
To provide a much-needed venue for students interested in fintech, the Wharton Undergraduate FinTech Group hosted Penn’s first all-undergraduate fintech hackathon in February 2018.…Read More