Patterns of Electronic Commerce
Business Sci Fi

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Instructor: Benn Konsynski, GBS

Class Times: Monday 6:30 - 9:30 p.m. in 331

e-mail: Benn Konsynski (Frist Class)

Phone: 727-6698

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Text and Readings:

Internet Business Models: Text and Cases
by Thomas R. Eisenmann
McGraw Hill/Irwin, Boston, Mass.: Harvard Business School Press, 2002 (yes) - p. 649 - ISBN 0-07-250834-5

Later - Case Packet of Business Cases

Other readings will be provided online or distributed as handouts.

Please download Acrobat Reader for viewing handouts

Emerging Technologies and other Projects

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CLASS SCHEDULE - Fall 2001

SESSION	DATE	TOPIC
1	9/10/01	INSERT MIRACLE HERE: Survivors, Weakest Links and Unreality Commerce
2	9/17/01	Yesterday's Tomorrows
3	9/24/01	Post-Web World
4	10/1/01	Yahoo and Tellme
5	10/8/01	Global Commerce
6	10/15/01	Secure Commerce - PGP
7	10/29/01	Certificate Authorities
8	11/5/01	EC and Supply Chain Management
9	11/12/01	Bill Presentment and Payment Systems
10	11/19/01	Electronic Markets Holiday This Week Happy Thanksgiving
11	11/26/01	Procurement & Trade Communities
12	12/03/01	Advanced Commerce
Cyber	Net	More Advanced Commerce
EXAM	TBA	Patterns of Electronic Commerce

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Course Grading

• 25% Final Group Project - TOM - This Old Market with ESP - Enterprise Strategic Profile (late October proposal and due at the end of the semester)
• 15% ET - Emerging Technologies (Due October 22)
• 20% MoM - Mechanism of the Market - (Last day of Class)
• 20% Final Exam (at end)
• 20% Class Participation (always and includes small assignments)

Requirements and Assignments:

• This Old Market - TOM: We will study the history, present practice and future of a marketplace of your interest. We will explore the critical mechanisms of the market throughout its history, in the current market and speculate on the alternatives for governance and development of the market. Paper in Word form and brief Executive Summary will be delivered in html.
• Emerging Technologies - ET: It is important that we scan the technologies are emerging in the arena that is shaping electronic commerce. In this project we will take a general manager's view of individual information technologies. This will be delivered in html. - Enterprise Strategic Profile - ESP: A portion of the TOM project will be a general manager's perspective on the strategic direction of the selected enterprise and its relationship to digital commerce.
• Mechanism of the Market - MoM: Here we study the history and practice of a critical activity of commerce and its relationship to shaping new options in digital commerce.
• Final Exam: Yup!
• Class Participation: Our course is not a spectator sport. With case discussions and guest visitors, active participation is essential.

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Guest Speakers: We have a number of guest speakers in this class. Please be courteous to our guest speakers. We have some great resources to draw on.

Honor Code: There are many information sources on the Net. The ground rules for the use of Internet information and the honor code for this course is obvious. Attribute all sources including web sources. Do not plaigarize papers or reports, and do not submit the same paper to multiple courses. Also all handouts, exams and materials that will be provided in secure areas of this server are for your own personal class use. These materials should not be reproduced or distributed in electronic media at other sites.

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Copyright Notice - This material was authored by Benn Konsynski to support the course Patterns of Electronic Commerce. All rights are reserved. © Benn Konsynski, 2001

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Goizueta Business School

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Emory University

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