Ben Compaine has divided his career between the academic world
and private business. He is currently teaching media management and entrepreneurship at Fordham University's Graduate School of Business and is a senior consultant for the
Innovation International Media Consulting Group. His last project with them involved creating a strategic plan for the founders of an entreprenurial publishing
company in Moscow, Russia.
Previously he was Research
Consultant at
the MIT Program on Internet & Telecoms Convergence. He spent 1997-98
as Visiting Professor in Communications at Pennsylvania State University. From 1994
to 1997 he was the Bell Atlantic (now Verizon) Professor of Telecommunications at Temple University in
Philadelphia, where he created and was Chairman of the Center for
Information Industry Research. He has been an instructor in financial and strategic management at Boston University and technological entrepreneurship at Northeastern University.
Ben's entrepreneurial roots run deep. His father and uncle pioneered big box discount merchandising in the late 1950s with the Kiddie Mart chain in the Philadelphia area. Ben founded the weekly Philadelphia
Review and later was an angel investor and adviser for the Cambridge Review. He has mentored numerous small businesses. In 1986 Ben co-founded and through 1994 was chief executive of Nova Systems Inc., a firm that created and
distributed
software for management information reporting in telecommunications centers. From 1979 to
1986 he was executive director of the Program on Information Resources Policy (PIRP) at
Harvard University where he had responsibility for funding and directing research on the
implications of changing information technology for business, government, and society.
Previously he was Director of Books and Studies at Knowledge Industry Publications, Inc
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