Collaborative Innovation Program Archives - Mack Institute for Innovation Management

Innovation Pathways: Becoming an Effective Change Agent

Through Mack Institute’s Collaborative Innovation Program, Army officer Bethany Dumas WG’21 gained “eye-opening” insights into private sector innovation.…Read More

Innovation Pathways: Managing Innovation Through Collaboration

Vineet Agarwal WG’20 talks key takeaways from his experience with product development, global teams, and adopting new technologies.…Read More

Innovation Pathways: Combining Two Approaches for Customer Solutions

Vaibhav Katkade WG’20 finds merit in blending structured and unstructured methods to effectively identify and solve the most pressing customer problems.…Read More

Innovation Pathways: Tapping Into the Power of Data Analytics

Matt Gates WG’21 talks about the power of data analytics and working in teams with a diversity of backgrounds and skill sets.…Read More

Innovation Pathways: Start With Design Thinking

Isoken (Iso) Igbinedion WG’21 talks Amazon Prime Now, customer and employee engagement, a future of entrepreneurship, and more.…Read More

Innovation Pathways: Financial Services Takeaways Transfer to Healthcare

Social policy graduate student Linya Liu explains why she aimed to outperform delivery expectations during Mack Institute’s Collaborative Innovation Program.…Read More

Innovation Pathways: An Engineering Student Finds a New Career Direction

Engineering graduate student Rahul Sharma explains why the Mack Institute’s Collaborative Innovation Program was a “critical step” in his studies at Penn.…Read More

Innovation Pathways: Austin Deng Works at a ‘Startup’ in a Large Company

Johnson & Johnson’s Austin Deng identifies opportunities in connected healthcare, sensors/wearables, and digital health.…Read More

Insurance Professional Gets Opportunity to Put Behavioral Science Theory Into Practice

Participating in the Collaborative Innovation Program gave John Thiel the “helpful applied insight that I had been seeking.”…Read More

What You Can Learn About Innovation by Talking to Florists, Accountants, and More

Student Lauren Gaudreau describes how a Collaborative Innovation Program team considered an ideal customer service model for a financial services company.…Read More

A Diverse Team Takes on the Industrial IoT Challenge

Dylan Hooe came to Wharton to build versatile skills, meaningful experiences, and enduring relationships. He found them in the Mack Institute’s Collaborative Innovation Program.…Read More

Healthcare Innovation that Upends Traditional Attitudes

CIP student Emily Pell talks about what she learned working on healthcare innovation in sexual wellness – and how she snagged an internship in the process.…Read More

“Surprise, Uncertainty, and Eagerness to Try”

One product design student’s CIP experience learning to innovate through an unexpected challenge.…Read More

From Crowdsourcing Novice to Consultant in One Semester

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

One Student’s “Unique and Valuable” Innovation Experience

Wharton MBA student Alan Holden shares why he recommends the Mack Institute’s Collaborative Innovation Program to students interested in innovation.…Read More

Next Semester, Put Real Innovation to Work

Every major firm faces innovation challenges. We’re looking for the students who want to tackle them.…Read More

Turning Business Theory into Business Practice

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

Thinking Outside of the Classroom

The Mack Institute’s Collaborative Innovation Program (CIP) pairs corporate partners with Penn students to tackle real-world business challenges.…Read More