Over the course of a three-week sprint this spring, students at Penn worked to reinvent the pre-operative process for hip and joint replacement surgeries. The 2016 Penn Healthcare Innovation Challenge invited cross-campus teams to find new ways to help patients better navigate this complex process.…Read More
Wharton MBA student Meredith Sigler got to help a large corporation navigate the current landscape of crowdsourcing as part of the Mack Institute’s Collaborative Innovation Program.…Read More
Wharton MBA student Alan Holden shares why he recommends the Mack Institute’s Collaborative Innovation Program to students interested in innovation.…Read More
The gap between business research and industry practice can loom large at times, but bridging it is essential to ensuring that research is relevant to the outside world. For graduate students at the Wharton School, the Mack Innovation Doctoral Association intends to narrow that gap.…Read More
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
