The technology for driverless cars is advancing rapidly, but before autonomous vehicles can become a reality, cities and governments need to catch up. MBA student Michael Parent attended the Consumer Electronics Show and brought back insights on the future of urban mobility.…Read More
Wharton MBA candidate Justine Lai makes an impassioned case for increasing the emphasis on intrapreneurship for MBA students.…Read More
70 million Americans lack access to traditional banking services. Instead, those in a financially precarious position often must resort to predatory alternatives such as payday lenders. The winners of the 2015 Penn Design Challenge, sponsored by the Mack Institute, describe their approach to changing this system. …Read More
Wharton MBA student Mariam Malik has long had an interest in mental health care. Through the Mack Institute Student Research Fellowship, she crafted a business plan to help service providers deliver improved care through greater coordination.…Read More
MBA Research Fellow Neil Assur tackled the nebulous challenge of finding new opportunities for business innovation in the nutrition space. Here’s what he learned about entrepreneurship and the unexpected places it can lead.…Read More
The Mack Institute is proud to be a sponsor of TedxPenn. For the past ten months, a team of 30 undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Pennsylvania quietly worked to create the biggest TEDx event the school has ever seen.…Read More
Every major firm faces innovation challenges. We’re looking for the students who want to tackle them.…Read More
It’s mid-September 2014, and my four teammates and I are clustered around a computer. We’re part of the Mack Institute’s inaugural Collaborative Innovation Program, and we’ve come together to find out what challenge we’re going to spend the rest of the semester tackling. …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
Penn Engineering undergrad Dick Zhang is one of three members of IDENTIFIED, the 2012 winning team of the Y-Prize competition. In this guest blog post, he shares insight about his Y-Prize competition experience. Some innovations seem to materialize out of nowhere. But in the pursuit of innovation, sometimes all you have to…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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
