Honors & Awards

Wharton-Infosys Business  Transformation Award The Mack Center is pleased to host the Wharton-Infosys Business Transformation Awards at Wharton.  We provide research on nominees, work with Infosys Technologies to refine the award process, and Wharton and Mack Center representatives attend WIBTA award ceremonies which are held in four world capitals, each year.  The most recent awards were presented to the U.S. recipients on Nov. 6, 2005 in Orlando, Florida.  Vivek Ranadivé, Chairman & CEO, TIBCO Software Inc. won the Technology Change Agent Award (shown in photo); Alpheus Bingham accepted the Enterprise Business Transformation Award on behalf of InnoCentive.com, the web-based research community he co-founded.  InnoCentive.com matches scientists worldwide with R&D challenges presented by companies seeking solutions to problems in molecular medicine and other disciplines.  Steve Oliveira, Associate Dean for External Affairs, and Michael Tomczyk Managing Director of the Mack Center, attended this event.  Please visit the WIBTA website for a full list of current and past recipients. Nominations are closed for the 2006 Wharton-Infosys Business Transformation Award (WIBTA)  Read more>>

Dr. Alejandro Zaffaroni Honoring a Pioneer in Biomedicine The Mack Center Joins the Franklin Institute in Honoring Dr. Franco Zaffaroni, Recipient of the Bower Award for Business Leadership (2nd from left)  Click here for full text...

Myoung Woo Lee: Visiting Scholar and Senior Fellow at Wharton Mr. Lee, former chairman of Sony-Korea and a senior executive at Samsung Electronics for many years, shared his experiences with faculty and students as Visiting Scholar in the Management Department, and Senior Fellow in the Mack Center for Technological Innovation.  As a senior decision maker at two of Asia's most successful and enduring companies, his insights are highly insightful and educational.  During his stay at Wharton, Mr. Lee has been a guest lecturer at Wharton classes and has participated in research projects.  His lecture, "Strategic Channel Design and Implementation" was of particular interest.   Mr. Lee is a 1994 Wharton graduate. He spent 24 years at Samsung, working in the Middle East, London, Frankfurt, Seoul, and most recently served as President of Consumer Electronics in the U.S.  In 2001 he left Samsung to become President & CEO of Sony Korea.