Erik Brynjolfsson is the Director of the Center for eBusiness at MIT (http://ebusiness.mit.edu), the George and Sandi Schussel Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School and Director or Advisor of several technology-intensive firms. Professor Brynjolfsson was among the first researchers to measure the productivity contributions of information technologies, and his research has been recognized with six “Best Paper” awards by fellow academics. He lectures worldwide on business strategy, pricing models and intangible assets, including keynote addresses at the Business Week CEO Summit, the Business Week CIO Summit, the Economist eBusiness Summit, and the eBusiness Expo. He is Editor of the Ecommerce Research Forum (http://ecommerce.mit.edu/forum), and several books including Understanding the Digital Economy and Strategies for eBusiness Success. Professor Brynjolfsson has served on the Editorial Boards of numerous academic journals as well as Time Magazine’s Board of Economists.
 
At the MIT Sloan School, Professor Brynjolfsson teaches a popular MBA course on Digital Business and a PhD seminar on IT, Organizations and Markets. He is an associate member of the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science and the MIT Center for Coordination Science. Professor Brynjolfsson previously served on the faculty at Stanford Business School and at Harvard University. He holds Bachelors and Masters degrees from Harvard University in Applied Mathematics and Decision Sciences and a PhD from MIT in Managerial Economics.