Over the past two decades, big tech companies have innovated and experimented with the standard Industrial Era business model, creating organizations that are now dominating the global economy. How do they do it, and will the bubble burst? In this talk, MIT digital economist and data scientist Andrew McAfee, co-founder of MIT’s Initiative on the Digital Economy, takes audiences on a deep dive into his upcoming book, “The Geek Way.” He pulls back the curtain on what makes these “geek companies” consistently strong performers, how they excel at disrupting industries, and what traditional companies can learn from their freewheeling, fast-moving, evidence-driven, egalitarian, argumentative and autonomous cultures.
Speaker Bio
Andrew McAfee
Co-Founder and Co-Director of MIT’s Initiative on the Digital Economy and a Principal Research Scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Andrew McAfee is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of MIT’s Initiative on the Digital Economy and a Principal
Research Scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He studies how digital technologies are changing the
world. His most recent book More From Less: The Surprising Story of How We Learned to Prosper Using Fewer
Resources - and What Happens Next was published by Scribner in fall of 2019.
His 2014 book The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies,
coauthored with Erik Brynjolfsson, won several awards and has been both a New York Times and Wall Street
Journal top ten bestseller. Another book with Brynjolfsson, Machine | Platform| Crowd: Harnessing our Digital
Future, published in 2017, offers an executive’s guide to succeeding during this turbulent era. These books have
been translated into more than 15 languages, and McAfee and Brynjolfsson are the only people named to both
the Thinkers50 list of the world’s top management thinkers and the Politico 50 group of people transforming
American politics.
McAfee has written for publications including Foreign Affairs, Harvard Business Review, The Economist, The Wall
St. Journal, and The New York Times. He's talked about his work on CNN and 60 Minutes, at the World Economic
Forum, TED, and the Aspen Ideas Festival, with Tom Friedman and Fareed Zakaria, and in front of many
international and domestic audiences.
McAfee was educated at MIT and Harvard. He lives in Cambridge Massachusetts, watches too much Red Sox
baseball, doesn't ride his motorcycle enough, and starts his weekends with the NYT Saturday crossword.
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Research Scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He studies how digital technologies are changing the
world. His most recent book More From Less: The Surprising Story of How We Learned to Prosper Using Fewer
Resources - and What Happens Next was published by Scribner in fall of 2019.
His 2014 book The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies,
coauthored with Erik Brynjolfsson, won several awards and has been both a New York Times and Wall Street
Journal top ten bestseller. Another book with Brynjolfsson, Machine | Platform| Crowd: Harnessing our Digital
Future, published in 2017, offers an executive’s guide to succeeding during this turbulent era. These books have
been translated into more than 15 languages, and McAfee and Brynjolfsson are the only people named to both
the Thinkers50 list of the world’s top management thinkers and the Politico 50 group of people transforming
American politics.
McAfee has written for publications including Foreign Affairs, Harvard Business Review, The Economist, The Wall
St. Journal, and The New York Times. He's talked about his work on CNN and 60 Minutes, at the World Economic
Forum, TED, and the Aspen Ideas Festival, with Tom Friedman and Fareed Zakaria, and in front of many
international and domestic audiences.
McAfee was educated at MIT and Harvard. He lives in Cambridge Massachusetts, watches too much Red Sox
baseball, doesn't ride his motorcycle enough, and starts his weekends with the NYT Saturday crossword.
Tuesday, 08 November, 2022 / 04:30 PM - 05:15 PM CET