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Tom Eisenmann is the Howard H. Stevenson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, the Peter O. Crisp Chair at Harvard Innovation Labs, and the Faculty Co-Chair of the HBS Rock Center for Entrepreneurship. In his primary academic capacity, he serves as the course head for The Entrepreneurial Manager, an introductory program taught to approximately 900 first-year MBA students, while also instructing advanced courses like Technology Venture Immersion and Designing Technology Ventures. Beyond his teaching responsibilities within the Harvard College Technology Fellows Program, he established the January Term Startup Bootcamp and co-led specialized courses on cultural entrepreneurship. He is the author of the prominent book Why Startups Fail, which analyzes the structural reasons behind startup failure and explores entrepreneurial resilience. His broader focus centers on technology ventures, marketplace design, platform-based businesses with network effects, and entrepreneurial management.
