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Announcing Our Spring ’24 Conference: Shaping the Future with Corporate Venturing and Startups

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Friday, March 22, 2024 The Wharton School, Philadelphia The Mack Institute is pleased to announce our Spring 2024 conference, Collaborative Innovation: Shaping the Future with Corporate Venturing and Startups. In this era of transformative and disruptive new technologies, the relationship between established firms and startups is becoming more collaborative. These…Read More

Beyond Jacks-of-all-Trades: Functional Diversity of Work Experiences and Employee Corporate Venturing

Many large firms try to encourage entrepreneurial initiatives by their employees, but the question of which employees undertake such initiatives has not been explored. In this study, we argue that the formal division of labor within a firm affects employees’ likelihood of engaging in internal corporate venturing. …Read More