Prof. Marshall Van Alstyne, SM ‘91, PhD ‘98
Fellow, MIT IDE
Professor, BU Questrom School of Management
Symposium Roles
Speaker/Panelist 2016, 2015
Speaker/Panelist 2016, 2015
Panels Participated in
The Owner’s Guide to Platform Strategies (2016)
Platform Shift: How New Business Models are Changing the Shape of Industry and the Role of CIOs (2015)
Platform Shift: How New Business Models are Changing the Shape of Industry and the Role of CIOs (2015)
Bio
Marshall Van Alstyne is one of the world’s foremost experts on platform strategies and network business models. He is a frequent speaker, board level advisor, and consultant to both startups and global firms.
His research has received half a dozen academic awards and appeared in top journals such as Science, Nature and Harvard Business Review. Interviews appear regularly across Bloomberg, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and National Public Radio. Van Alstyne is a research scientist at MIT, tenured professor at Boston University, and graduate of Yale and MIT. Consulting includes such firms as British Telecom, Cisco, Haier, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Pearson, and SAP. He holds multiple patents; he was among the first to measure individual dollar output from social networks and IT, and his theories of network businesses are now taught worldwide.
Recent Press Coverage
- At MIT, Platform Strategy Takes Center Stage (2016-06-09)
- Platform business model picks up steam — what’s the CIO role? (2015-07-01)
- How CIOs Can Prepare For The Platform Economy (2015-06-10)
- Digital Business Models Take Shape Across–and Among–Industries (2015-05-26)
- The Enterprise Transformation Conundrum (2015-05-23)
- TechBytes: Three Takeways from MIT CIO Symposium (2015-05-22)
- As platform companies take over, how can product companies keep up? (2015-05-22)