Prof. Erik Brynjolfsson, PhD ‘91
Director, Initiative on the Digital Economy
MIT Center for Digital Business
Symposium Roles
CIO Award Judge 2012, 2013Speaker/Panelist 2012, 2013, 2014
Panels Participated in
Bio
Erik Brynjolfsson is the Director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, a Professor at the MIT Sloan School, Chairman of the Sloan Management Review and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His widely cited research examines a variety of aspects of information technology, strategy, productivity, marketing and employment has been recognized with 10 Best Paper prizes and five patents. He teaches a popular MBA courses on the Economics of Information and an executive program on Big Data. His talk for the opening session of TED 2013 laid out an optimistic vision for the future of economic growth.
Prof. Brynjolfsson is a director or advisor for several technology-intensive firms and lectures worldwide on technology and strategy. His books include New York Times Bestseller The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress and Prosperity in a time of Brilliant Technologies, co-authored with Andrew McAfee. He received AB and SM degrees from Harvard and a PhD from MIT. You can keep up with his research via his website: http://digital.mit.edu/erik or Twitter: @erikbryn.
Press Coverage
- The MIT Second Machine Age Conference
- Preparing for the digital future, leading in the digital present
- Preparing for the next digital revolution at the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium
- The CIO and the Digital Revolution: Notes from the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium
- MIT CIO Symposium Examines Need for Proactive Enterprise IT Innovation
- This Does Not Compute: The Human Skills Robots Can't Replace And How To Develop Them
- Are you ready for the Second Machine Age?
- New Manufacturing Trend: More U.S.-Based, More Robots, Less Jobs
- Technology and culture at the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium 2014
- Movers and Shakers: Lindsey Anderson, Chair of The MIT Sloan CIO Symposium
- How Big Data Changes Our Relationship With Information
- MIT: A big data revolution is here, and it's past time for CIOs to lead
- New Tools Beget Revolutions: Big Data and the 21st Century Information-based Society
- Innovation And Transformation, Key Themes At MIT CIO Symposium 2013
- MIT panelists: Big data calls for data-driven decision making skills
- Keeping Big Data from Big Brother
- Big Data Needs a Steady Management Hand to Give Best Results
- Data in, hunches out
- CIO Tough Love: Agility Demands Increasing
- 6 things every CIO should know (or at least think about)