Erik Brynjolfsson

Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management Scholars

Erik Brynjolfsson is co-founder and Director of Massachusetts Institute of Technology Initiative on the Digital Economy (MIT-IDE), Schussel Family Professor of Management Science at MIT Sloan School of Management (MIT-IDE), and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). His research examines the effects of information technologies on business strategy, productivity and performance, digital commerce, and intangible assets. At MIT, he teaches courses on the Economics of Information and the Analytics Lab.  He has also taught at Stanford University and Harvard University.

Brynjolfsson was among the first researchers to measure productivity contributions of IT and the complementary role of organizational capital and other intangibles. His research provided the first quantification of online product variety value, known as the “Long Tail,” and developed pricing and bundling models for information goods. Recognized with ten Best Paper awards and five patents, Brynjolfsson’s research has appeared in leading economics, management, and science journals.

Author of several books including, with co-author Andrew McAfee, New York Times best-seller The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies (2014) and Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future (June 2017), Brynjolfsson is editor of SSRN’s Information System Network and has served on editorial boards of numerous academic journals. He holds Bachelors and Master’s degrees from Harvard University in applied mathematics and decision sciences, and a PhD from MIT in managerial economics. His papers can be found at http://digital.mit.edu/erik9.