Digital Business at MIT

The MIT Sloan School of Management created the MIT Center for Digital Business as a research partnership with industry to provide leadership for faculty, students, and sponsors interested in Internet-enabled business. The results of our applied research are transforming digital business.



The Changing Software Business: From Products to Services and Other New Business Models (#236) January 2008 Over the past several years, the software business has been undergoing dramatic changes, with important implications both for users as well as producers of software products and services. Perhaps the most significant change is the decline of traditional product sales or license fees and the shift in product company revenues to services ... Find out more...
Measuring the Impact of Electronic Data Management on Information Worker Productivity January 2008 In this project, we studied the effects of digitizing work on information workers’ time-use and performance at a large insurance firm. We were able to determine of direction of causality between technology and performance by exploiting a quasi-experiment: the phased introduction of Electronic Document Management (EDM) across multiple offices at different dates. Our analysis used a “difference-in-differences” methodology to econometrically measure changes in a suite of performance metrics. This allowed us to derive unbiased estimates of the main effects ... Find out more...


John Chambers, CEO, CISCO SYSTEMS "Our long-standing sponsorship of the MIT Center for Digital Business provides Cisco with access to some of the world's most credible research and brightest researchers. The MIT CDB has been one of our most important partners in researching issues like the value of collaboration, the role of the network as a platform, and the impact of networking technologies on productivity. Data and analysis from this MIT CDB research has provided Cisco with unique, valuable insight and thought leadership resources."
Save the Date for the 2009 MIT Center for Digital Business Annual Sponsors Conference May 19, 2009 > The Annual Sponsors Conference is open to Sponsors and invited guests. The Annual Conference is an opportunity for all sponsors to hear a review of our work. If interested in attending or becoming a Sponsor of the MIT Center for Digital Business, please contact David Verrill at dverrill@mit.edu. For Sponsors, see details on sponsor website.
2009 MIT Sloan CIO Symposium May 20, 2009 > This event brings together 500 senior-level IT decision-makers in a day of networking, spirited discussions and informative discourse concerning today's business and technology issues. Find out more...
Save the Date for the 2009 MIT Sloan CIO Summit Sept 22-23, 2009 > Over 30 CIOs attended our 2008 MIT CIO Summit.
Erik Brynjolfsson named one of "Top 100 Most Influential People in IT" eWeek.Com, April 2007 >"Among the first to measure the productivity contributions of IT " Read more...


Prof. Erik Brynjolfsson Director, MIT Center for Digital Business and the Schussel Professor of Management Find out more...