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Wharton Executive Education Offers New Online Course in Customer Centricity

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The Wharton School has announced the application period for its new online-only executive education course is now open.…Read More

Wharton’s Mack Institute Teams with Program on Vehicle and Mobility Innovation for First-ever Joint Conference, Featuring J.D. Power III

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The Mack Institute for Innovation Management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania will host its annual Fall Conference in Philadelphia on November 22, 2013 on the topic of “When Disruptive Technologies Meet Integrated Systems: Who Captures the Value?” …Read More

Innovative Marketing is Focus of Wharton Executive Education’s First Online Program

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For the first time in its history, Wharton Executive Education is offering executives anywhere in the world the chance to enroll in a premier program online called the Strategic Value of Customer Relationships.…Read More

Wharton’s Mack Institute for Innovation Management Announces Program on Vehicle and Mobility Innovation

The Mack Institute for Innovation Management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is pleased to announce it is expanding its research network through the addition of the Program on Vehicle and Mobility Innovation (PVMI).…Read More

Penn Engineering’s GRASP Lab and Wharton’s Mack Institute Take the Y-Prize Global

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Last year, the GRASP lab at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Engineering and Applied Science and the Wharton School’s Mack Institute helped take cutting-edge robots out of the lab and into the marketplace through the Y-Prize Competition. Now, they have now joined forces with crowdsourcing platform Marblar and intellectual property commercialization company IP Group to take the Y-Prize worldwide.…Read More

Wharton School Announces Gift from William L. and Phyllis Mack to Establish the Mack Institute for Innovation Management

The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is pleased to announce a major gift from William L. and Phyllis Mack to permanently endow the Mack Institute for Innovation Management. …Read More

The Wharton Executive MBA iPad Project named Apple Distinguished Program

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The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is pleased to announce that its Wharton Executive MBA iPad initiative has been named an Apple Distinguished Program for 2012-2013, recognizing Wharton’s “iPad Project” which leverages iPad to complement and support the learning experiences of students.…Read More

Cisco and Wharton School Unveil the Learning Experience of the Future

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The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Cisco today unveiled the learning experience of the future — one that blends life-size visual communication via telepresence with collaboration technologies that significantly enhance the way faculty, students and alumni interact and learn, no matter how distant they may be from physical classrooms.…Read More

First Annual University of Pennsylvania Y-Prize Competition Grand Prize Winner is “IDENTIFIED” as Best of Penn-Owned Robot Concepts

Student team IDENTIFIED, Y Prize Grand Prize Winners

The University of Pennsylvania announced that student team IDENTIFIED won the $5,000 Grand Prize of the 2012 Y-Prize Competition (yprize.upenn.edu), which includes rights to commercialize their application of Penn-owned robotics technology.…Read More

First Annual University of Pennsylvania Y-Prize Competition: Four Finalists Battle for the Rights to Commercialize Penn-Owned Robots

Co-sponsored by Penn Engineering, the Weiss Tech House, the Center for Technology Transfer, and the Wharton School, the Y-Prize is a brand new competition in which student teams propose innovative commercial applications for technology invented by University of Pennsylvania researchers.…Read More

Wharton Executive Education Teaches a Process for Innovation

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The pioneers of Innovation Tournaments, Wharton professors Christian Terwiesch and Karl Ulrich, and Wharton’s Aresty Institute for Executive Education, announce a unique opportunity for executives: learn to manage something often thought of as illusive and left to chance.…Read More

“After Broadband” Report Released

The Mack Center for Technological Innovation at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and the Institute for the Future (IFTF) are pleased to announce the release of After Broadband: Imagining Hyperconnected Futures, a report based on a high-level experts workshop earlier this year.…Read More