Who you are defines how you build.

This is the Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series.

Brought to you by Stanford E-Corner.

Thanks so much, Tom Eisenman, for being here today.

My name is Tom Byers, so it is the Tom and Tom webinar show for this

entrepreneurial thought leader seminar series episode. It's a first of three, this particular term.

And I'm looking forward to spending the next 50 minutes or so with my good friend, Tom Isamon,

from, maybe I'll call it the Stanford of the East, the Harvard Business School, which

needs no introduction as far as a university. I teach here at Stanford University in the Department

of Management, Science and Engineering, and I've been teaching entrepreneurship here for quite a few years, about the same number of years as our guest today.

And I've always been such a big admirer. I want to get it right, though, with his proper titles, because they are significant.

Tom Isamund is the Howard H. Stevenson Professor of Business Administration

at the Harvard Business School. The Peter O. Crisp chair of Harvard Innovation Labs, which is a

terrific accelerator on campus, and a faculty co-chair of the HBS Rock Center for Entrepreneurship, which is our counterpart here at STBP.

But there's more.

He's just come from opening the Harvard MS MBA program for this year, which he's a faculty director of.

And turns out he's the faculty director of the Harvard College Technology Innovation Fellows Program,

which has a parallel here as well.

So it's so cool.

But the reason particularly excited is that he has a book out that is just super.

And we're going to get into that in just a moment. But did I get that

correctly? Did I get all your titles right? Are I miss anything, Tom? No, Tom. Thank you so much.

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