Douglas Hannah

Associate Professor of Business Administration and Raymond M. Porter Faculty Fellow

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Ph.D., Organizations, Technology, and Entrepreneurship, Stanford University, 2016
M.S., Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University, 2009
B.A., Honors, Environmental Studies, Dartmouth College, 2005

Assistant Professor, Questrom School of Business, Boston University, 2020-2025
Assistant Professor, McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin, 2015-2020

Hannah, D., & O'Mahony, S. Forthcoming. Navigating pedagogical dilemmas when scholarly fields are in flux. Academy of Management Learning & Education.
Ott, T., & Hannah, D. (2024). How entrepreneurs craft complex causal models with theorizing and data. Strategy Science.
Hannah, D., & Lim, S. (2024). When prototypes don’t yield useful insights. Harvard Business Review Digital Articles.
Hannah, D. (2024). What digital health startups can tell us about teaching students to be effective entrepreneurs. Insights@Questrom.

Hannah, D. (2022). Making it through the academic job search with more than just a job. Inside Higher Ed.
Hannah, D. (2022). How a non-descript box has been saving lives during the pandemic – and revealing the power of grassroots innovation. The Conversation.
Hannah, D., Tidhar, R., & Eisenhardt, K. (2021). Analytic models in strategy, organizations, and management research: A guide for consumers. Strategic Management Journal.
Hannah, D. (2021). One way to build more resilient medical supply chains in the U.S Harvard Business Review Digital Articles.
Ozcan, P., & Hannah, D. (2020). Forced ecosystems and digital stepchildren: Reconfiguring suppliers to realize disruptive social media technology. Strategy Science.
Hannah, D., & Eisenhardt, K. (2019). Bottlenecks, cooperation, and competition in nascent ecosystems. Strategic Management Journal. Strategic Management Journal.
Hannah, D., & Eisenhardt, K. (2018). How firms navigate cooperation and competition in nascent ecosystems. Strategic Management Journal.
Hannah, D., Bremner, R., & Eisenhardt, K. (2016). Resource redeployment in business ecosystems. Advances in Strategic Management.

Eisenhardt, K., Bremner, R., & Hannah, D. (2017). Firm strategy in business ecosystems. Collaborative Strategy: Critical Issues for Alliances and Networks.

Eesley, C., & Hannah, D. (2012). Review: Winds of Change: The Environmental Movement and the Development of the Wind Energy Industry. Administrative Science Quarterly.

Entrep: From Startup to Growth (MBA 553) Will explore the earlier stages of the entrepreneurial venture process. The course modules will be focused on practical ideas and techniques that entrepreneurs can use to evaluate the potential of market opportunities and make decisions about whether to pursue them in a startup company. This course will also build on concepts, outline strategies, and tactics for forming, financing, and launching the new venture. Topics to be addressed will include developing a go-to market strategy, selecting appropriate revenue and pricing strategies, preparing financial models, raising startup and initial growth financing, and preparing for and managing growth.