Andy is currently a principal research scientist at the Center for Digital Business in the MIT Sloan School of Management. He was previously a professor in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School and a fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

Repeatedly honored as one of the most influential people in business IT, Andy McAfee studies the ways that information technology (IT) affects businesses. Andy was recently highlighted on a lead 60 Minutes program and was honored as one of the featured speakers to kick off the 2013 TED season.

Andy’s new book, The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies, explores the defining forces that will radically alter how we think about technological, societal, and economic progress. McAfee’s recent book, Race Against the Machine: How the Digital Revolution is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming Employment and the Economy, was named the best IT Business Book of 2011 by CIO Insight. McAfee’s bestselling book, Enterprise 2.0: New Collaborative Tools for Your Organization’s Toughest Challenges, was published in November 2009 by Harvard Business School Press. Andy also writes a blog for Harvard Business Review’s HBR Voices and his posts are regularly reprinted at forbes.com.

He received his Doctorate from Harvard Business School, and completed two Master of Science and two Bachelor of Science degrees at MIT.