50 Word Bio

Erik Brynjolfsson
Director, MIT Center for Digital Business
Schussel Family Professor of Information Technology and Strategy
MIT Sloan School
http://digital.mit.edu/erik

Erik Brynjolfsson is Director of the MIT Center for Digital Business at MIT, Professor at the MIT Sloan School, an award-winning researcher and Director or Advisor for technology-intensive firms. He lectures worldwide on Internet strategy, pricing models and intangible assets.  Erik has Bachelors and Masters Degrees from Harvard and a Ph.D. from MIT.

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200 Word Bio

Erik Brynjolfsson
Director, MIT Center for Digital Business
Schussel Family Professor of Information Technology and Strategy
MIT Sloan School
http://digital.mit.edu/erik

Erik Brynjolfsson is the Director of the MIT Center for Digital Business, the Schussel Professor at the MIT Sloan School and a Director of public and private companies. He lectures worldwide on business strategy and performance, pricing models and intangible assets and he teaches courses on the Economics of Information at the MIT Sloan School.

Professor Brynjolfsson was among the first researchers to measure the productivity contributions of information technologies, and his research has been recognized with nine Best Paper awards and five patents. Businessweek has profiled him one of five “ebusiness visionaries” and a reader's poll by Optimize ranked him as one of the world's two most influential academics. He is the Chairman of MIT Sloan Management Review and editor of the Information System Network.

He is the author or co-editor several books including Understanding the Digital Economy, Intangible Assets, and Strategies for eBusiness Success. He has served on the Editorial Boards of numerous academic journals as well as Time magazine's Board of Economists and the Academic Advisory Council of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.

Professor Brynjolfsson holds Bachelors and Masters degrees from Harvard University in Applied Mathematics and Decision Sciences and a PhD from MIT in Managerial Economics. He founded three companies and taught two of the first courses on Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge-based Systems at Harvard University.  From 1996-1998, he was a Visiting Associate Professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and from 2004-5, he was Marvin Bower Fellow at Harvard Business School.