Erik Brynjolfsson

Erik Brynjolfsson
At the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium 2013
Citizenship	United States of America
Fields	Information Systems Economics Technological Change
Institutions	MIT Sloan School of Management
Alma mater	Harvard MIT
Notable students	Sinan Aral Lorin M. Hitt Marshall Van Alstyne Shinkyu Yang Michael D. Smith Yu (Jeffrey) Hu Xiaoquan (Michael) Zhang
Known for	Productivity paradox The Long Tail Bundling of Information Goods Cyberbalkanization
Notable awards	John D.C. Little Award for Best Paper in Marketing Science

Erik Brynjolfsson (born 1962) is an American academic, and Schussel Family Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management, the Director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, Director of the MIT Center for Digital Business and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, known for his contributions to the world of IT Productivity research and work on the economics of information more generally.

Brynjolfsson earned his BA, magna cum laude, in 1984 and his MS in Applied Mathematics and Decision Sciences at Harvard University in 1984. He received a Ph.D. in Managerial Economics in 1991 from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Brynjolfsson has served on the faculties of MIT since 1986, Harvard from 1985 to 1995 and Stanford from 1996 to 1998. In 2001 he was appointed the Schussel Family Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He lectures and consults worldwide, and serves on corporate boards. He teaches the popular course 15.567, The Economics of Information: Strategy, Structure, and Pricing, at MIT and hosts a related blog Economics of Information. He was also a contributing member to the Winter, 2004 Boston Ski and Sports Club (BSSC) Championship flag football team.

His research has been recognized with nine "best paper" awards by fellow academics, including the John DC Little Award for the best paper in Marketing Science. Brynjolfsson is the founder of two companies and has been awarded five U.S. patents. Along with Andrew McAfee, he was awarded the top prize in the Digital Thinkers category at the Thinkers 50 Gala on November 9, 2015.