Dr. Andrew McAfee

Dr. Andrew McAfee studies the ways that information technology (IT) affects businesses and business as a whole. He 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. McAfee’s book on Enterprise 2.0 was published in November 2009 by Harvard Business School Press. He is the author or co-author of more than 100 articles, case studies and other materials for students and teachers of technology. 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.” He was also named by Baseline magazine to a separate, unranked list of the 50 most influential people in business IT that year. In 2009 he was the only non-executive in the Everything Channel’s group of the 100 most influential executives in the technology industry. McAfee 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. He received his Doctorate from Harvard Business School, and completed two Master of Science and two Bachelor of Science degrees at MIT.

Dr. Justin Wolfers

Dr. Justin Wolfers is Assistant Professor of Economics in the Business and Public Policy Department at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He was previously an Assistant Professor at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, and an economist with the Reserve Bank of Australia. Dr. Wolfers earned his Ph.D. in economics in June 2001 from Harvard University, and was a Fulbright, Knox and Menzies Scholar and a fellow with the MacArthur Network on Inequality and Social Interactions. He earned his undergraduate degree in Economics in his native Australia at the University of Sydney.

Dr. Michael Pliner

Dr. Michael Pliner has over 30 years experience in computer software and systems technology, general management, and business development. Dr. Pliner has founded, financed, and built three successful high technology businesses. Dr. Pliner co-founded Verity Inc., serving as Chairman, President, and CEO. He also co-founded Sytek Inc serving as its Chairman and CEO. Currently Dr. Pliner is a consulting entrepreneur serving on the Boards or advisory Boards of several high technology companies. His primary interests are in networking, search, security, and enterprise software technologies.