Tom Byers

Tom Byers is a professor at Stanford University in the USA. He was an early employee at Go, Symantec. He is also brother of famous entrepreneur Brook Byers. At Stanford he has established and directs Stanford Center for Entrepreneurial Studies to train and encourage students to become entrepreneurs. As of 2004, he taught "Introduction to High Technology Entrepreneurship" class, which in many respect parallels business school case study management courses, but with a specific high technology orientation.

Tom Byers is a triple-degree alumnus of the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned his bachelor's degree in industrial engineering and operations research in 1975, his MBA in 1980, and his Ph.D. in management science in 1982.

See also Stanford Mayfield Scholars Program

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