ADVISORY/ Center for eBusiness@MIT Gathers Leaders to Talk on eBiz Direction; Founders/CEOs from Palm, BizRate, Frictionless Commerce, Freemarkets and Mobilee To Speak.Business/Technology Editors & Education Writers ADVISORY...for Tuesday-Wednesday (Jan. 16-17) *T What: Tuesday, Jan. 16, 6:15-7:00 pm "Succeeding in the Handheld Era" Carl Yankowski--Palm Inc., CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Wednesday, Jan. 17, 8:30-11:30 am "Living on the eBusiness Frontier--Perspectives of leading eBusiness founders and CEOs" Farhad Mohit--BizRate.com, Chairman, Chief Strategic Officer & Co-Founder Sam Kinney--FreeMarkets, Inc., Co-Founder Alexander Kleiner III--Frictionless Commerce, President and Founder Jacob Guedalia--Mobilee, Inc., CEO Where: MIT MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management's Wong Auditorium auditorium Portion of a theater or hall where an audience sits, as distinct from the stage. The auditorium originated in the theaters of ancient Greece, as a semicircular seating area cut into a hillside. 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge Building E51, enter at corner of Amherst and Wadsworth *T CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 12, 2001 CEOs and founders from diverse e-business companies will speak at the Center for eBusiness@MIT annual sponsors conference bringing insights from the rollercoasters of eBusiness entrepreneurship en·tre·pre·neur n. A person who organizes, operates, and assumes the risk for a business venture. [French, from Old French, from entreprendre, to undertake; see enterprise. and the current stock market environment. Sloan professors Erik Brynjolfsson Erik Brynjolfsson is the Schussel Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the Director of the MIT Center for Digital Business. His research and teaching focus on how businesses can effectively use information technology. Brynjolfsson earned his A.B. and Glen Urban, co-directors of the Center for eBusiness@MIT, will be on hand to provide additional industry insight. This two-day conference will be attended by over 200 executives of the center's forty sponsor companies. The Center for eBusiness@MIT provides thought leadership, research and education in Internet focused technology, management and business strategy. The Center is part of the MIT Sloan School of Management The MIT Sloan School of Management is one of the five schools of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. It is one of the world's leading business schools, conducting research and teaching in finance, entrepreneurship, marketing, , based in Cambridge, Massachusetts This article is about the city of Cambridge in Massachusetts. For the English university town, see Cambridge, England. For other places, see Cambridge (disambiguation). Cambridge, Massachusetts is a city in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States. , one of the world's leading business schools---conducting cutting-edge research and providing management education to top students from more than 60 different countries. While the conference can not accommodate the general public, reporters are invited to attend the sessions listed above. To register, please call 781-455-9050. |
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