Head:
Professor Michael Cusumano, MIT Sloan School, Management Science Group

Associated Faculty and Staff:
Prof. Gabriel Bitran, MIT Sloan School, Management Science Group
Prof. Erik Brynjolfsson, MIT Sloan School, Information Technology Group
Prof. Michael Cusumano, MIT Sloan School, Management Science Group
Prof. Charlie Fine, MIT Sloan School, Operations Group
Robert Laubacher, MIT Sloan School, Center for Collective Intelligence
Prof. Alan MacCormack, MIT Sloan School, Management Science Group
Prof. Stuart Madnick, MIT Sloan School, Information Technology Group
Prof. Wanda Orlikowski, MIT Sloan School, Information Technology Group
Prof. Rajeev Ram, MIT School of Engineering
Dr. Michael Siegel, MIT Sloan School, Information Technology Group
Prof. Fernando Suarez, MIT Sloan School, Center for Digital Business
Prof. JoAnne Yates, MIT Sloan School, Communications Group

Description:

The concept of Cloud Computing has developed rapidly over the course of the past few years, and is perceived by practitioners and thought leaders as either the "next big thing", or "just another name for distributed computing". While we won't take sides in this debate, we will develop a framework for thinking about how business can take advantage of the Cloud. Specifically, our approach is to look at the enabling factors of the Cloud, from a variety of perspectives, including the following:

• The Cloud as a Platform (Michael Cusumano, Marshall Van Alstyne)
• The Economics of the Cloud (Erik Brynjolfsson)
• Enterprise 2.0 and the Cloud (Andrew McAfee)
• Security and the Cloud (Michael Siegel)
• The Customer and the Cloud (Glen Urban)