Industry and Academic Perspectives on VC Investment Strategy

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

Progressive Business: Where Turning a Profit and Saving the Planet Collide

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 couldRead More

Student Post: User-Driven Change: Replacing Competition With Collaboration in the Music Industry

DJ Steve Aoki

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 tryingRead More