Saikat Chaudhuri on the globalization of innovation and what that means for R&D in India. India has not traditionally been a significant hub of research and development, but winds of change are blowing. Saikat Chaudhuri discusses the factors contributing to the shift in this interview at a recent conference at…Read More
On Monday July 15, Wharton’s Global Initiatives Program will welcome Singapore Management University Executive MBA students for a week of intensive classes and company visits. The students will engage in sessions about corporate strategy and supply chain management. Mack Institute Co-director Harbir Singh is Wharton’s Vice Dean for Global Intiatives…Read More
David Heckman, practice leader, senior management at the Wharton School’s Aresty Institute of Executive Education, recently spoke with Mack Institute Co-director George Day about why innovation prowess is the key to growth leadership. The interview addresses the questions that Professor Day explores in his latest book Innovation Prowess: Leadership Strategies…Read More
Achieving superior growth through innovation is a top strategic priority for all companies. Yet most management teams struggle to reach their firm’s ambitious growth targets and suffer slow growth.…Read More
Mack Center Core Team member Karl Ulrich features in a Financial Times article on “massive open online courses” (MOOCs). The Wharton School has so far offered six open courses via Coursera.org. “Even if we never earned a dime from Coursera, it’s great value to reach so many people,” comments Ulrich,…Read More
The Knowledge and Innovation Group interviewed Mack Center Core Team member Sidney Winter. In the interview professor Sidney Winter discusses the role of productive knowledge, characteristics of routines, organizational change and replication of knowledge. This interview is the first in the Knowledge Foundations series held by the Knowledge & Innovation…Read More
There will never be a shortage of dumb mistakes. Fortune magazine once compiled a list of the “101 Dumbest Moments in Business” that included Merrill Lynch’s investment in subprime mortgages just before the market meltdown in 2008, Mattel’s recall of 20 million toys treated with lead paint in China and…Read More
Wharton organized a session on “new creative models for job growth and creation” during which faculty explored what companies can do in both the West and the East to create more jobs and better manage risks to job growth. Wharton faculty speakers include Professor of Management Michael Useem, Professor of…Read More
