$10 Million Gift Opens Tech Center at Wharton

The William and Phyllis Mack Center for Technological Innovation was founded last month at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. The center is the product of a $10 million gift from William L. Mack, the president and senior managing partner of the Mack Organization — a national owner, investor and developer of warehouse facilities.



The center serves to house all of Wharton's technology management initiatives, including Wharton faculty members' research and publishing activities, an endowed professorship and a student-run conference. The Mack Professorship honors a senior faculty member whose primary commitment is to teaching and research in technological innovation management.



The center also includes the Mack Program in Technological Innovation, which encompasses the Wharton Emerging Technologies Management Research Program, a corporate learning network for senior executives and academic researchers guided by senior Wharton faculty members and staff. Senior executives from numerous industry partners are helping to schedule activities for the program, which also provides the MBA major in Technological Innovation.



The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania has approximately 4,600 undergraduate, MBA and doctoral students and more than 75,000 alumni. It was founded in 1881 as the first collegiate business school in the nation. For more information on the center, visit http://emertech.wharton.upenn.edu/emertech/index.html