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From gaming to healthcare, metaverse technology is catching on in a variety of industries. We spoke to experts from industry and academia for this best-practices overview of immersive technology.

Doing Business in the Metaverse: Leveraging Innovations in Immersive Technology Doing Business in the Metaverse: Leveraging Innovations in Immersive Technology by Shankar Parameshwaran Business use cases within the metaverse are rapidly expanding. The $200 billion global gaming industry empowers its enthusiasts to save the world by egg-bombing enemies or create their own island...

“We’re not going to get the toothpaste back into the tube. This technology is out there. It’s only going to grow.” Christian Terwiesch and Ethan Mollick on what makes Chat GPT different.

ChatGPT Passed an MBA Exam. What’s Next? Wharton professors Christian Terwiesch and Ethan Mollick weigh in on ChatGPT and why the controversial software has limitless potential to improve education, business, and a range of industries.…Read More

seniors with an idea for a nonprofit or for-profit venture for social good - apply for the President's Engagement or Innovation Prize by February 3!

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Announcing Collective Impact Virtual Salon, a new initiative of Lori Rosenkopf and Dan Levinthal that brings together top management scholars to discuss how their work can be made more impactful for students, business practitioners and policy-makers.

Announcing Collective Impact, A "Virtual Salon" For Management Scholars The Mack Institute is pleased to announce the launch of Collective Impact Virtual Salon, an initiative of Wharton Management Professors Lori Rosenkopf and Dan Levinthal. Collective Impact is a knowledge-sharing and blogging initiative inspired by a series of faculty discussion groups convened by Ros...

Mack co-director Christian Terwiesch gave ChatGPT the final exam from a Wharton MBA class—and it got a B. Learn more about the experiment in this new white paper

Would Chat GPT3 Get a Wharton MBA? New White Paper By Christian Terwiesch GPT3, the artificial intelligence chatbot from OpenAPI, went viral soon after its launch, drawing attention to and raising questions about the future of generative AI. But is it smart enough to pass a final exam in a typical Wharton MBA course? Mack Institute Co-Director Christian Terwiesch publishe...

"The most valuable collaboration takes place among students...It’s not uncommon to see a team that has Wharton students, engineers, people from the Weitzman School of Design, and even a liberal arts major.

Executive Director Valery Yakubovich spoke to Penn Today about 10+ years of the competition.

The Y-Prize: Elevating collaboration and innovation in competition | Penn Today Y-Prize is a competition that sees Penn students working together across schools and disciplines, and directly applying what they’ve learned in classes and real life.

Congratulations to our four finalists! The four teams selected will move forward to the second phase of our competition, where they will pitch their business ideas for real Penn technologies.

Y-Prize 2022-23 Finalists Announced Congratulations to the four student teams chosen as finalists for this year’s Y-Prize competition: AtrioFlow, Bubble, Equimeter, and VoluVision! The Y-Prize competition challenges students to build their entrepreneurial skills by creating business plans for technologies invented at Penn Engineerin...

"Remember: Your company is a data company." Check out Mack Senior Fellow Scott Snyder in Knowledge at Wharton.

How Strong Is Your Data Balance Sheet? Wharton's Scott Snyder presents a simple framework to unlock the full potential of your company's data assets.…Read More

“Bring in regulatory clarity. But also bring in the user experience designers and usability engineers.” Tips from Wharton's Kartik Hosanagar and "The NFT Professor" Myriam Brouard on how to bring Web3 to the masses

Why Web3 Won’t Go Mainstream — Yet Usability is holding back a new era of the internet where an understanding of cryptocurrency is vital. Wharton's Kartik Hosanagar and Myriam Brouard from the University of Ottawa offer a few solutions.…Read More