Erik Brynjolfsson is the director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, a professor at the MIT Sloan School, the 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, and 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. Erik is a director or advisor for several technology-intensive firms and lectures worldwide on technology and strategy. His books include The New York Times bestseller “The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress and Prosperity in a time of Brilliant Technologies,” co-authored by Andrew McAfee. He received A.B. and S.M. degrees from Harvard and a Ph.D. from MIT.
Why It Matters That GDP Ignores Free Goods
Kirkpatrick: Erik Brynjolfsson, who comes up next, is somebody who, last year with his partner Andy McAfee, published a book about what is happening with jobs and kind of concerned me and did some great stuff on stage. Now he’s got some interesting new thoughts about the role of free goods in the digital economy. […]
Conferences
Techonomy 12
Techonomy focuses on how the exponential pace of technology progress makes possible a new world. A wave of accelerating change driven by technology’s advance is washing over our lives, bringing great potential for business and social progress.
Conferences
Techonomy 11
Techonomy is about the centrality of technology to business and social progress and the urgency of embracing the rapid pace of change brought by technology. Every major issue going forward will be affected by how it intersects with tech innovation. We believe that only those leaders who keep this conviction at the forefront of their […]
