For Release: February 22, 2000
Contact: HBS Communications
(617) 495-6155
BOSTON -- For MBA students, top executives, and academics eager to discuss the future of the Internet and the latest in high technology, Harvard Business School will be the place to be this weekend (Friday,Feb. 25 through Sunday, Feb. 27). That's when the student-run High Tech & New Media Club at HBS kicks off its annual Cyberposium, featuring more than 28 CEOs from the New Economy and 1,100 MBA students from HBS as well as 20 other business schools in this country and abroad.
Cyberposium 2000 features keynote addresses by three leaders of the e-commerce revolution: David Wetherell, CEO of CMGI; Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon.com; and Andreas Schmidt, president and CEO of AOL Europe. Other conference events include panel discussions; "how to" sessions; fairs focusing on high tech, careers, and start-ups; and venture capital business plan review sessions.
Although tickets for Cyberposium sold out in a matter of days, many of the proceedings, including the keynote addresses, will be webcast at www.cyberposium.com during the conference and on-demand after its conclusion.
With some 900 members, the HBS High Tech & New Media Club is one of the most active on campus. In addition to the Cyperposium, it sponsors numerous other events such as speakers series, forums, and the annual WesTrek, which takes hundreds of Harvard MBA students to California to meet with companies in the San Francisco Bay area and the heart of Silicon Valley.
Some 30 members of the HBS faculty are engaged in research and course development in the field of entrepreneurship. Eighteen percent of the 894 students in the MBA Class of 1999 took jobs in high technology, 11 percent of them in Internet companies.
Contact: HBS Communications
(617) 495-6155
Keynotes by CEOs of Amazon.com, AOL Europe, and CMGI Highlight Cyberposium 2000 at HBS
BOSTON -- For MBA students, top executives, and academics eager to discuss the future of the Internet and the latest in high technology, Harvard Business School will be the place to be this weekend (Friday,Feb. 25 through Sunday, Feb. 27). That's when the student-run High Tech & New Media Club at HBS kicks off its annual Cyberposium, featuring more than 28 CEOs from the New Economy and 1,100 MBA students from HBS as well as 20 other business schools in this country and abroad.
Cyberposium 2000 features keynote addresses by three leaders of the e-commerce revolution: David Wetherell, CEO of CMGI; Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon.com; and Andreas Schmidt, president and CEO of AOL Europe. Other conference events include panel discussions; "how to" sessions; fairs focusing on high tech, careers, and start-ups; and venture capital business plan review sessions.
Although tickets for Cyberposium sold out in a matter of days, many of the proceedings, including the keynote addresses, will be webcast at www.cyberposium.com during the conference and on-demand after its conclusion.
With some 900 members, the HBS High Tech & New Media Club is one of the most active on campus. In addition to the Cyperposium, it sponsors numerous other events such as speakers series, forums, and the annual WesTrek, which takes hundreds of Harvard MBA students to California to meet with companies in the San Francisco Bay area and the heart of Silicon Valley.
Some 30 members of the HBS faculty are engaged in research and course development in the field of entrepreneurship. Eighteen percent of the 894 students in the MBA Class of 1999 took jobs in high technology, 11 percent of them in Internet companies.