Biography
Kartik Hosanagar is a tenured Associate Professor of Internet Commerce at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Kartik ´s research work focuses on Internet media and Internet marketing.
Kartik has been recognized as one of the world's top 40 business professors under 40. He has received several teaching awards including the MBA and Undergraduate Excellence in Teaching awards at the Wharton School. His research has received several awards including the best paper award at the Consortium on Technology Policy and Management. Kartik is a cofounder of Yodle Inc, a venture-backed firm that has been listed among the top 50 fastest growing private firms in the US. He has served on the advisory board of Milo Inc (acq by eBay) and is involved with other startups as either an investor or board member. His past consulting and executive education clients include Google, Nokia, American Express, Citi and others.
Kartik graduated at the top of his class with a Bachelors degree in Electronics and a Masters in Information Systems from Birla Institute of Technology and Sciences (BITS, Pilani), India, and he has an MPhil in Management Science and a PhD in Management Science and Information Systems from Carnegie Mellon University.
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Recent News and Media Citations
- Can Yahoo be Rescued (The New York Times)
- Important to Know what India's 100M Internet users are doing (Mint, India)
- To Pique Interest, Start-Ups Try a Digital Velvet Rope (The New York Times)
- Cable companies fear more than the Internet (NPR Marketplace Report)
- Nokia and RIM scramble for market share (Knowledge@Wharton)
- Linksys fate unclear in Cisco reworking (Orange County Business Journal)
- Group buying websites battle for Middle-East shoppers (Knowledge@Wharton)
- Does it make a difference what browser you use (NPR's Marketplace Report)
- Is Google stuck in perpetual beta? (Knowledge@wharton)
- eBay acquires Milo (Milo is a startup founded by former student Jack)
- Virtual Events Industry Takes Off (Interview for NPR's "Marketplace")
- Jeff Bezos Keeps Kindling Hot Concepts (Investor's Business Daily)
- Finding the Essebnce of Innovation (CIO Insight)
- Prospects for the iPhone in China (Knowledge@Wharton)
- Can Lean Co-exist with Innovation (Knowledge@Wharton)
- The Future of Free (Boston Globe)
- As Smartphones Proliferate, Will One Company Emerge as the Winner (Knowledge@Wharton)
- Free: The Past and Future of a Radical Price (Book by Chris Anderson)
- Charities Adopt Private Sector Models (Knowledge@Wharton)
- Cloud Computing: Silverlining (Financial Chronicle, India)
- Online shopping and the Harry Potter Effect (The new Scientist)
- How About Free? The Price Point that is turning Heads (Knowledge@Wharton)
- The Renaissance of File sharing (Forbes)
- YouTube is the New advertising Hotspot (Economic Times, India)
- iPhone in India: Has Apple Dialed the Wrong Number (Knowledge@Wharton)
- The Net Impact of NetBooks (Knowledge@Wharton)
- Advertisers search for their voices on YouTube (Knowledge@Wharton)
- Wharton study finds iLike users acquire more music (Yahoo!, Billboard)
- eBay bids for durability (USA Today)
- Experts Vs Amateurs: The future of media (Knowledge@Wharton)
- Founders as CEOs of Technology Companies (Alibaba, China)
- A takeover of Yahoo!: Microsoft's risks (Le Monde, France)
- Challenges for eBay's new CEO (Forbes)
- Marketing Presidential candidates on the web (Financial Times, K@W)
- Google: In Search for Itself (Knowledge@Wharton)
- Software's Future: Melding the Web and the desktop (Knowledge@Wharton)
- Reinforcing the Blockbuster Nature of Media (Knowledge@Wharton)
- NSF funds $1.2M for Prof Hosanagar's project on economics of next-generation Internet (with co-PIs Roch Guerin, Zhi-Li Zhang and Andrew Odlyzko)
- Monster.com's Middle Age (Knowledge@Wharton)
- Some Free Advice to Yahoo CEO (Knowledge@Wharton)
- 'Walled Garden' Versus 'Open Plain' Strategies (Knowledge@Wharton)
- Media Moves: Will the New Online Advertising Models Click? (Knowledge@Wharton)
- Wireless Broadband Utopia: Are We There Yet? (Knowledge@Wharton)
- Clicks are great but calls are better: An article on Yodle Inc (formerly Natpal Inc), a firm Prof Hosanagar cofounded (Forbes)
- Software Business Models of the Future (Knowledge@Wharton)
- Google Still Searching for Ways to Master Media (CIO Magazine)
- Yodle Inc (formerly Natpal Inc), a firm Prof Hosanagar cofounded, closed its series A round of financing with Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP)
- Prof Hosanagar is co-chairing the 2007 workshop on sponsored search to be held in Banff, Canada
- The Succession Question: When´s the Right Time to Go (CIO Magazine)
- Can India Conquer World with IT only? (Economic Times)
- BITS Pilani Announces 30 Under 30 Part 1 Part 2 (BITS Alumni Association)
- An Arduous Path to Green Cards (Philadelphia Inquirer)