Speaker biographies
Thomas Eisenmann is an associate professor in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at the Harvard Business School. He studies management challenges in businesses with network effects. Eisenmann teaches managing networked businesses in Harvard’s MBA elective curriculum. He spent eleven years as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company. As the co-head of McKinsey’s Media and Entertainment Practice during the early 1990s, he directed teams addressing a broad range of strategic, organizational, and operational issues for clients engaged in network broadcasting; cable programming; newspaper, magazine, and book publishing; and motion picture production.
David Evans leads LECG’s global antitrust practice. An authority on industrial organization, he is the coauthor or editor of six books, including Invisible Engines: How Software Platforms Drive Innovation and Transform Industries (MIT Press, 2006), which won the Best Business Book of 2006 award from Association of American Publishers, and Catalyst Code: The Strategies of the World’s Most Dynamic Companies (Harvard Business School Press, 2007). He has also written more than seventy articles published in professional journals in economics and law. A specialist on competition policy in the United States and the European Union, a topic on which he has written and lectured extensively, he has testified before courts, arbitrators, regulatory authorities, and legislatures in the United States and Europe. He has led the economic analysis in several important antitrust cases over the last twenty-five years, beginning with U.S. v. AT&T on behalf of the U.S. Department of Justice. Most recently, he testified before the European Court of First Instance in Microsoft v. European Commission. Evans has written and consulted extensively on high-technology and platform-based businesses. His most recent work has concerned the economics of multisided platform businesses, product design, and tying and bundling. Evans was an adjunct professor of law at Fordham University Law School from 1985–1995, where he taught antitrust law and economics.
Robert Hahn is co-founder and executive director of the AEI-Brookings Joint Center, which examines cutting-edge issues in law and economics, regulation, and antitrust. Previously, he worked for the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, where he helped design the innovative market-based approach for reducing acid rain. Hahn has served on the faculties of Harvard University and Carnegie Mellon University. He frequently contributes to leading scholarly journals and general-interest periodicals, including the American Economic Review, Yale Law Journal, Science, and the New York Times. He is the author of Reviving Regulatory Reform: A Global Perspective (AEI Press–Brookings Institution, 2000) and several other books. He has been a consultant to governments and businesses on a variety of economic issues. In addition, Hahn is co-founder of the Community Preparatory School, an inner-city middle school in Providence, Rhode Island, that provides opportunities for disadvantaged youth to achieve their full potential.
Lorin Hitt is the Alberto Vitale Term Associate Professor of Operations and Information Management at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. His research focuses on the value of information technology (IT) investments, competition and pricing in electronic commerce, and the economics of IT, especially in the banking and health-care sectors. His articles have appeared in a wide range of economics and management journals, including the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, and Management Science.
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