Faculty and Research

Thomas R. Eisenmann is the William J. Abernathy Professor of Business Administration in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at the Harvard Business School. He studies management challenges in platform-based businesses that exploit network effects. Professor Eisenmann is co-head of The Entrepreneurial Manager course in Harvard's MBA required curriculum; Faculty Chair of Field-Based Learning for the MBA Program; and faculty co-leader of the HBS Silicon Valley Immersion Program.

Professor Eisenmann received his DBA (98), MBA (83), and BA (79) from Harvard University. His doctoral thesis examined factors driving consolidation in the U.S. cable television industry.

Prior to entering the HBS Doctoral Program, Eisenmann spent eleven years as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company. As co-head of McKinsey's Media and Entertainment Practice during the early 1990s, he directed teams addressing strategic, organizational, and operational issues for clients engaged in network broadcasting; cable programming; newspaper, magazine, and book publishing; and motion picture production.

Professor Eisenmann is a member of the Strategic Management Journal editorial board. He is the editor of Internet Business Models: Text and Cases, (McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2002).

Eisenmann is a director on the boards of Harvard Business Publishing; Harvard Student Agencies, the world's largest student-run corporation; and Brilliant Film Fund LLC, a UK-based motion picture production fund. He serves on the Advisory Board of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. Eisenmann was a member of the board of directors of OneMain.com, one of the ten largest U.S. Internet Service Providers prior to its acquisition. 
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