Andrew McAfee

principal research scientist, Center for Digital Business, MIT

Andrew McAfee received his Doctorate from Harvard Business School, and completed two Master of Science and two Bachelor of Science degrees at MIT. He is currently a principal research scientist at the Center for Digital Business in the MIT Sloan School of Management, and a fellow at the Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. McAfee coined the phrase "Enterprise 2.0" in a spring 2006 Sloan Management Review article to describe the use of Web 2.0 tools and approaches by businesses. His book, *Enterprise 2.0: New Collaborative Tools for Your Organization's Toughest Challenges*, studies the ways that information technology (IT) affects businesses and business as a whole. McAfee is the author or co-author of more than fifteen scholarly articles and ninety case studies for students and teachers of technology. He speaks frequently to both academic and industry audiences, and has taught in executive education programs around the world. In 2008 McAfee was named by the editors of the technical publishing house Ziff-Davis number 38 in their list of the "100 Most Influential People in IT."