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Ralph Landau Senior Fellow in Economic Growth

Erik Brynjolfsson

Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Professor and Senior Fellow
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)

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 also is the Ralph Landau Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Professor by Courtesy at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and 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 PhD from MIT in managerial economics. His papers can be found at https://www.brynjolfsson.com/research

Focal Areas: Innovation and Technology

Education

PhD, Managerial Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
SM, Applied Math/Decision Science, Harvard University
AB, Applied Mathematics, Harvard University

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