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Erik Brynjolfsson

Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Professor and Senior Fellow, Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence
Ralph Landau Senior Fellow in Economic Growth at SIEPR
Director of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab, Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence
Professor, by courtesy, of Economics
Professor, by courtesy, of Operations, Information & Technology and of Economics at the Graduate School of Business
Courtesy faculty

Dr. Erik Brynjolfsson is the Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Professor and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI), and Director of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab. He is the Ralph Landau Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) and holds appointments at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford Department of Economics, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).

One of the most-cited authors on the economics of information, Brynjolfsson was among the first researchers to measure productivity contributions of IT and the complementary role of organizational capital and other intangibles. He has done pioneering research on digital commerce, the Long Tail, bundling and pricing models, intangible assets and the effects of IT on business strategy, productivity and performance.

Brynjolfsson speaks globally and is the author of nine books including, with co-author Andrew McAfee, best-seller The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies, and Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future as well as over 100 academic articles and five patents. He holds Bachelors and Masters degrees from Harvard University in applied mathematics and decision sciences and a Ph.D. from MIT in managerial economics. His papers can be found here

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