The Wharton-Infosys Business Transformation Award is becoming one of the world’s most prestigious international awards. 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 Mack Center is the Wharton home of these awards, which recognize pioneering achievements in the development and use of information technology to effect change.  Awards are presented to enterprises and individuals in four regions: Asia/Pacific, Europe, Latin America and North America .

Recipients have included: Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, founder of Biocon; Nklas Zennström and Janus Friis, co-founders of Skype; Enrique Gomez Junco B., founder of Optima Energía, a provider of environmentally friendly energy and water solutions; and Leroy Hood, for technology innovations in molecular biology.

Award winning firms have included: Southwest Airlines, Inditex Group, InnoCentive, TecMédica and FUNDESMA.

For more information visit:   http://www.wibta.com

The Mack Center was pleased to join the Franklin Institute in Honoring Dr. Franco Zaffaroni, Recipient of the Bower Award for Business Leadership (Second from left). Click here for full text.

During 2006, 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 was a guest lecturer at Wharton classes and 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 recently served as President of Consumer Electronics in the U.S. In 2001 he left Samsung to become President & CEO of Sony Korea and in 2006 joined Coca-cola as non-executive chairman.