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Publications
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Pipelines, Platforms, and the new rules of strategy
Harvard Business Review
One of the cover articles on the April 2016 print edition of Harvard Business Review.
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Platform Revolution
WW Norton
International best-selling book (800CEOREAD) for the month of May 2016.
Ranked among the must-read books of 2016 by Forbes.
Ranked among top CEO Summer reads by Huffington Post.
"Thoughtful and provocative" - Wall Street Journal
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Freelancers on the Network
MIT Technology Review - Business Report
See publicationResearch feature in the quarterly Business Report published by the MIT Technology Review.
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Platform Scale
How an emerging business model helps startups build large empires with minimum investment
See publicationMy first book detailing the new factors powering business growth in the age of the internet.
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The rise of social graphs for business
Harvard Business Review
See publicationThe impact of platforms and networks on B2B business models.
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Digital Halo: Strategies for Building Online Personal Reputations
Journal of Digital and Social Media Marketing
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A Platform Thinking Approach to Innovation
WIRED Magazine
See publicationExplaining innovation through physical, optimization and platform approaches.
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Managing Startups
OReilly Media
See publicationContributing Author to the book.
Actual Blurb:
If you want salient advice about your startup, you’ve hit the jackpot with this book. Harvard Business School Professor Tom Eisenmann annually compiles the best articles on technology startup management, primarily for the benefit of his students. This book makes his latest collection available to the broader entrepreneur community.
You’ll find 72 articles from successful entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, such as Fred Wilson…Contributing Author to the book.
Actual Blurb:
If you want salient advice about your startup, you’ve hit the jackpot with this book. Harvard Business School Professor Tom Eisenmann annually compiles the best articles on technology startup management, primarily for the benefit of his students. This book makes his latest collection available to the broader entrepreneur community.
You’ll find 72 articles from successful entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, such as Fred Wilson, Steve Blank, Ash Maurya, Joel Spolsky, and Ben Yoskovitz. They cover a wide range of topics essential to your startup’s success, including:
Management tasks: Engineering, product management, marketing, sales, and business development
Organizational issues: Cofounder tensions, recruiting, and career planning
Funding: The latest developments in capital markets that affect startups
Divided into 13 areas of focus, the book’s contributors explore the metrics you need to run your startup, discuss lean prototyping techniques for hardware, identify costly outsourcing mistakes, provide practical tips on user acquisition, offer branding guidelines, and explain how a choir of angel investors often will sing different parts. And that’s just for starters. -
Three Elements of a Successful Platform Strategy
Harvard Business Review
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The Network Effect Isn't Good Enough
TechCrunch
An analysis of the changing levers of competitive advantage on the internet and how network effects aren't as formidable a barrier as they used to be.
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What Twitter knows that Blackberry didn’t
Wall Street Journal Market Watch
We used to live in a world where commerce flowed linearly. Firms added value to products, shipped them out and sold them to consumers. Producers and consumers held distinct roles. Value was created upstream and flowed downstream.
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Why Business Models Fail
WIRED Magazine
See publicationAn introduction to the conflict between linear and networked business models
Honors & Awards
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HBR Top 10 Must Reads on Strategy
Harvard Business Review
Ranked among the top 10 strategy articles every published in HBR, alongside the works of Michael Porter and Clayton Christensen.
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Distinguished Alumnus Award
Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
Awarded the Distinguished Alumnus Award for IIM Bangalore in 2020.
Youngest person ever to be awarded this honour in the history of the institute. -
HBR Top 10 Must Reads on Business Model Innovation
Harvard Business Review
Ranked among the top 10 articles ever published in the Harvard Business Review, on business model innovation.
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Young Global Leader
World Economic Forum
This honor is bestowed by the World Economic Forum each year to recognize the most distinguished leaders under the age of 40, nominated from around the world, who are shaking up policy, society and the world around them.
Current and former YGLs head governments and Fortune 500 companies, win Nobel Prizes and Academy Awards, become UN Goodwill Ambassadors and Social Entrepreneurs. -
HBR Top 10 Definitive Management Ideas of the Year
Harvard Business Review
Selected among the top 10 definitive management ideas for the year by the Harvard Business Review:
https://hbr.org/product/hbr-s-10-must-reads-2017-the-definitive-management-ideas-of-the-year-from-harvard-business-review/10064-PBK-ENG -
Fellow
Royal Society of Arts
Elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, which honors individuals who have made significant contributions to the furtherance of arts and commerce.
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Golden Book Award - Best Business Book in Chinese/Mandarin - 2016-2017
Ministry of Economic Affairs, Republic of China
Recipient of the Golden Book Award for Platform Revolution
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Global Expert Panel Member, Digital Transformation of Industries
World Economic Forum
Selected as one of 26 experts globally to advise the World Economic Forum's initiatives on the Digital Transformation of Industries.
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International Best-seller - Platform Revolution
800CEOREAD
#11 best-seller globally for May 2016
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16 Must-read business books for 2016
Forbes Magazine
Named one of 16 must-read books for 2016
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Top 30 emerging business thinkers globally - 2016
Thinkers50
Ranked among the top 30 management thinkers globally most likely to shape the future of how organizations are managed and led.
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Top management thinkers globally of Indian origin - 2015
Thinkers 50
Ranked among the top 50 management thinkers globally of Indian origin by Thinkers 50 (the Oscar Awards of management thinking).
Youngest person to be ranked on the list.
Ranking:…Ranked among the top 50 management thinkers globally of Indian origin by Thinkers 50 (the Oscar Awards of management thinking).
Youngest person to be ranked on the list.
Ranking:
http://www.telegraphindia.com/external/display.jsp?mode=details&id=46748#.VqIPq1N96so
http://businesswireindia.com/news/news-details/50-indian-management-thinkers-who-had-impact-theory-practice-management-2015-thinkers-include-corporate-leaders-dons-from-harvard-kellogg-iims-other-national-international-institutions/46748
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Speaker
G20 World Summit 2014
One of 70 people globally selected to speak at the G20 Summit 2014 - Global Cafe.
http://www.4bc.com.au/radio/g20-brisbane-global-cafe-20140909-3f5eb
Test Scores
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Common Admission Test
Score: 99.93 percentile
MBA entrance exam, rated by the Economist Intelligence Survey as the toughest MBA entrance exam in the world.
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