Erik Brynjolfsson is the Director of the MIT Center for Digital Business, the Schussel Professor at the MIT Sloan School and a Director of public and private companies. A leading economist and expert on technology, Erik Brynjolfsson lectures worldwide on business strategy and performance, pricing models and intangible assets and he teaches courses on the Economics of Information at the MIT Sloan School.

Professor Erik Brynjolfsson was among the first researchers to measure the productivity contributions of information technologies, and his research has been recognized with nine Best Paper awards and five patents. Businessweek has profiled Erik Brynjolfsson as one of five "ebusiness visionaries" and a reader's poll by Optimize ranked him as one of the world's two most influential academics. Erik Brynjolfsson is the Chairman of MIT Sloan Management Review and editor of the Information System Network.

Erik Brynjolfsson is one of the most widely-cited researchers in the information systems field, he is the author or co-editor several books including "Understanding the Digital Economy," "Intangible Assets," and "Strategies for eBusiness Success." Erik Brynjolfsson has served on the Editorial Boards of numerous academic journals as well as Time magazine's Board of Economists and the Academic Advisory Council of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.

Professor Erik Brynjolfsson holds Bachelors and Masters degrees from Harvard University in Applied Mathematics and Decision Sciences and a PhD from MIT in Managerial Economics. Before joining the MIT faculty, he co-founded and directed a software development and consulting firm and taught two of the first courses on Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge-based Systems at Harvard University. From 1996-1998, Erik Brynjolfsson was a Visiting Associate Professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and from 2004-5, he was Marvin Bower Fellow at Harvard Business School.