Andrew McAfee

Andrew McAfee
McAfee at the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award in 2014
Born	Andrew Paul McAfee c. 1967 (age 49–50)
Nationality	American
Years active	1990s-present

Andrew Paul McAfee (born c. 1967) is co-director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, and the associate director of the Center for Digital Business at the MIT Sloan School of Management, studying the ways information technology (IT) affects businesses and business as a whole.

McAfee received his BS in mechanical engineering in 1988, his MS in management in 1990, and in 1999 his Doctorate from Harvard Business School, with a thesis titled The impact of enterprise information systems on operational effectiveness: An empirical investigation, where he also taught, and completed two Master of Science and two Bachelor of Science degrees at MIT.

His research investigates how IT changes the way companies perform, organize themselves, and compete, and at a higher level, how computerization affects competition, society, the economy, and the workforce. He was previously a professor at Harvard Business School and a fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

He is the author of Enterprise 2.0, published in November 2009 by Harvard Business School Press, and co-author of Race Against the Machine with Erik Brynjolfsson. In 2014, this work was expanded into the book The Second Machine Age.

He writes for publications including Harvard Business Review, The Economist, Forbes, The Wall St. Journal, and The New York Times. He speaks frequently to both academic and industry audiences, most notably at TED 2013 and on The Charlie Rose Show.