Erik Brynjolfsson
Education
Ph.D., managerial economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; S.M., applied mathematics and decision science, Harvard University
Summary of Experience
Professor Brynjolfsson is an expert on topics related to information technology (IT), internet strategy, pricing models, and intangible assets. His research focuses on the ability of IT to transform the structures of markets and firms, the impact of IT investments on productivity and business value, and the effects of the internet on commerce and information goods. He has authored or coauthored several books, including The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies, which received multiple awards. Professor Brynjolfsson was profiled as an eBusiness visionary by Businessweek, and his work has been recognized with a number of best paper awards. He has served on the editorial boards of numerous academic journals, as well as on Time magazine’s Board of Economists and the Academic Advisory Council of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Professor Brynjolfsson has directed and advised several technology-intensive firms, and he has been a co-principal investigator on several grants from the National Science Foundation to study IT, organizational transformation, and productivity. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Prior to joining Stanford University, Professor Brynjolfsson was the Schussel Family Professor of Management and Director of the Center for Digital Business at the MIT Sloan School of Management.