Dear friends of the Mack Institute, As the year draws to a close and the holiday season approaches, we’re reflecting on one of the busiest and most transformative years in the Mack Institute’s history. In 2024, we broadened our scope, forging new partnerships and launching impactful initiatives across our…Read More
Congratulations to the four student teams chosen as finalists for this year’s Y-Prize competition: Serpent, EmBrace, Agentis and Stentix! The Y-Prize competition challenges students to build their entrepreneurial skills by creating business plans for technologies invented at Penn Engineering. The team with the best commercial application wins $10,000 to help make…Read More
Kaihan Krippendorff (W’94, EAS’94) discusses the value of innovating from within and describes the traits that characterize internal innovators compared to entrepreneurs.…Read More
Zendrive CEO Jonathan Matus shares how smartphones can make us better drivers and how other stakeholders benefit from Zendrive’s platform.…Read More
Andrew Kimball, CEO of Industry City, discusses the efforts to revitalize a dilapidated section of post-industrial Brooklyn into a massive, innovation-powered job center.…Read More
Dickson Chu, Global Head of Portfolio Management at BBVA, discusses open innovation in fintech and identifies where he thinks the most exciting fintech ecosystems are developing worldwide.…Read More
Mack Institute Senior Fellow Sarah Kaplan, author of The 360° Corporation, discusses how businesses can approach trade-offs as sources of innovation, creativity, and even long-term profitability.…Read More
Brandon Hoffman (WG’15) discusses the role Samsung NEXT plays in transforming the customer experience that Samsung delivers.…Read More
Dr. Justin Barad, of Osso VR, explained how doctors can use the platform to learn and practice procedures amid the health care innovation boom.…Read More
Director Zoe Feldman explained how the equity-free program has guided 37 companies to an enterprise value of around $250 million to $300 million.…Read More
Max Goldberg, co-owner of Nashville-based Strategic Hospitality, speaks about capturing the dynamic spirit of his hometown…Read More
Mehrdad Baghai, co-founder of High Resolves, shares how he combines his expertise on corporate strategy with his passion for social impact, particularly in education.…Read More
Chris McCann of 1-800-FLOWERS.COM, Inc. describes how the company went from a single Manhattan flower shop to an e-commerce pioneer by embracing new technologies.…Read More
Seth Berger ( W’89, WG’93), Managing Director of Sixers Innovation Lab, discusses how the accelerator supports Philadelphia entrepreneurs by providing office space, health care, food, and even housing.…Read More
Katie Appel Duda introduces Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Government Innovation grant program, which funds cross-functional innovation teams in more than 200 cities around the world.…Read More
Zipari founder Mark Nathan explains why providing consumers more information is key to bringing down healthcare costs in the U.S., and lays out the team-oriented approach he takes to innovation in his company.…Read More
Winc co-founders Brian Smith and Geoff McFarlane shared how they’re using data to anticipate customer desires and get ahead of the next big trend in wine.…Read More
Sherif Hanna, VP of Ecosystem Development at Truepic, describes their blockchain-based solution to the problem of deepfakes and explains why collaboration will be so necessary to grow it to scale.…Read More
John Roese, CTO of Dell EMC, explains that advances in AI will depend on earning human users’ trust in machine learning.…Read More
Miranda Wang, Co-founder and CEO of BioCellection, describes her venture’s new commercial approach to the problem of plastics.…Read More
