Internet Strategy Course:
Information Technology and Competitive Positioning
For the fourth year, Tuck is pleased to offer alumni full access to its flagship
Internet strategy MBA elective, Information Technology and Competitive
Positioning, which starts Monday January 10. This course, taught by Professor
Phil Anderson, examines business models for Internet enterprises. Over 160 Tuck
and Thayer students are enrolled in the course, so you can expect lively
discussions and a lot of activity.
Course topics for Winter, 2000 include:
* Internet infrastructure: telecommunications and switching (developments and
strategic implications)
* Internet infrastructure: key software standards (developments and strategic
implications)
* Business models for software providers
* Business models for intermediate service providers
* Business models for end-user services
* Business models for market-makers
* Business models for e-tailers
Cases and visiting executives include:
* Glenn Britt, T'72, President, Time-Warner Cable
* Frank Moss, Co-Chairman and Co-Founder, Bow Street
* Andy Palmer, T'94, Vice President, Bow Street
* Susan Hunt Stevens, T'97, President and Acting CEO, BeBusy.Com
* Shana Fisher, Vice President, Allen & Company
* Dave Barrett, Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President, Calico
Commerce, Inc.
* Frank Ingari, Chairman and Founder, Wheelhouse Corporation
* Philip Greenspun, CEO, Ars Digita
* Cesar Brea, T'90, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development, ArsDigita
* John Couch, CEO, Doubletwist.com
* Frank Pinto, T' 79, Boston Milennia Partners
* Andrew Beebe, Co-founder, Chairman, and CEO, Bigstep.com
* Paul Slakey, T'94, Partner, Vanguard Venture Partners
* Roger McNamee, T'82, Co-Founder and General Partner, Integral Capital Partners
Full details are available via the course home page,
< http://mba.tuck.dartmouth.edu/itcp/ >
If you register for the course, you are under no obligation to monitor or
participate in every session. You can drop in and out as you please.
Auditors receive:
* Entree to the course's Web discussion forum, where you can exchange ideas with the MBAs and other alumni. A special conference lets you meet other alumni who share your interests.
* Access to all the cases, readings (all of which are available online), lecture
materials, and transcripts of the visiting executives' remarks
* Access to all the students' written case analyses
In addition, alumni registered for this course will be the first permitted to use the new online Tuck alumni database, which we are rolling out in stages. Go online to find current contact information for any Tuck alumnus!
To register for the course, please visit
< http://mba.tuck.dartmouth.edu/itcp/welcome.htm >.
Open registration will be held until January 17, after which the turnaround time for new registrants will be 24-48 hours. If you were already registered in this course last year, your user ID and password have been retained. If you cannot remember your Tuck WebBoard login or password please contact us first, do not create another user profile in the system.
Visit < http://forums.tuck.dartmouth.edu/~itcp2000 >
and sign in. In the conference "Important information for alumni auditors," you will find a message that shows you how to log into the secure web site that contains the cases, readings, and other proprietary materials. Should you need
help, please email < deb.sykes@valley.net > for assistance.
Finally, Professor Anderson is soliciting interested alumni to serve as "shadow
faculty." Shadow faculty members commit to facilitating and moderating the Web
forum for one case or lecture session, and are asked at the end to help the
professor identify the best contributors to the forum for grading purposes. If
you'd like to join the shadow faculty, please email Philip.Anderson@Dartmouth.edu and indicate which session you'd like to help out with.
Last year over 600 alumni participated in this course; this year, we're shooting
for more than 1000. If you would like to learn the most current material we are
teaching the MBA's about e-commerce, please come join us!