Erik Brynjolfsson
Stanford Institute for Human Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI)
Ralph Landau Senior Fellow in Economic Growth
Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)
Director of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab at the Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI)
Stanford Institute for Human Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI)
Professor by Courtesy
Department of Economics
Professor by Courtesy
Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB)
is the Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Professor and Senior Fellow at the , and Director of the . He also is the Ralph Landau Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Professor by Courtesy at the and Stanford Department of , and a Research Associate at the .
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 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 PhD from MIT in managerial economics. His papers can be found at
Focal Areas: Innovation and Technology