Andrew McAfee explained

Andrew McAfee
Birth Name:	Andrew Paul McAfee
Nationality:	American
Alma Mater:	Harvard Business School, MIT
Years Active:	1990s–present

Andrew Paul McAfee (born)^[1] is a principal research scientist at MIT and cofounder and codirector of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He studies how digital technologies are changing the world.

Early life and education

McAfee grew up in a small town in the mid-west. His parents divorced when he was eleven years old.^[2] Having a lack of friends growing up, and from being what he has called "socially awkward" and a bit of a math and English geek, McAfee was drawn to computers.^[3]

McAfee received his doctorate from Harvard Business School and completed two bachelors and two masters of science degrees at MIT.^[4]

Work

Throughout his career, McAfee has written and co-written several books on digital technology and related topics. He speaks frequently to both academic and industry audiences, most notably at TED 2013^[5] and on The Charlie Rose Show.^[6]

Books

McAfee's first book, Enterprise 2.0: New Collaborative Tools for Your Organization's Toughest Challenges, brings together case studies and examples with key concepts from economics, sociology, computer science, consumer psychology, and management studies of how leading organizations are incorporating the web's novel tools and philosophies.^{[7] [8]}

His second book, Race Against the Machine: How the Digital Revolution is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming Employment and the Economy, co-authored with Erik Brynjolfsson, brings together a range of data, examples, and research to show that the average US worker is being left behind by advances in technology.^{[9] [10]}

In September 2014, he co-authored the book Leading Digital – Turning Technology into Business Transformation, with George Westermann (MIT) and Didier Bonnet (Capgemini Consulting).

In 2016 and 2018 McAfee cowrote two more books with Brynjolfsson, titled The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies and Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future respectively.

In October 2019, Scribner published More from Less: The Surprising Story of How We Learned to Prosper Using Fewer Resources — and What Happens Next.^[11]

Bibliography

• Enterprise 2.0: New Collaborative Tools for Your Organization's Toughest Challenges (2009)
• Race Against the Machine: How the Digital Revolution is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming Employment and the Economy with Erik Brynjolfsson (2012)
• Leading Digital: Turning Technology into Business Transformation with George Westermann (2014)
• The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies with Erik Brynjolfsson (2016)
• Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future with Erik Brynjolfsson (2018)
• More from Less: The Surprising Story of How We Learned to Prosper Using Fewer Resources — and What Happens Next (2019)
• The Geek Way: The Radical Mindset That Drives Extraordinary Results (2023) Macmillan Business, ISBN 9781035026173

External links

• • Publications in the Harvard Business Review (archived)

Notes and References

1. News: Erik Brynjolfsson & Andrew McAfee: Professor and research scientist, MIT Sloan School of Management . . 2014 . McAfee, 47 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150224025634/https://www.politico.com/magazine/politico50/2014/erik-brynjolfsson-50.html . February 24, 2015 . dead.
2. Web site: Forward Thinking on how geeks are changing the world with Andrew McAfee McKinsey . December 4, 2023 . www.mckinsey.com.
3. Web site: Andrew McAfee: Rebel with a Cause . December 4, 2023 . Social Media Today.
4. Web site: McAfee . December 4, 2023 . Institut Montaigne.
5. News: TED: Andrew McAfee: What will future jobs look like? . June 2013.
6. News: The Charlie Rose Show . January 6, 2009.
7. News: Enterprise 2.0: How to Manage Social Technologies to Transform Your Organization . December 1, 2009. 978-1422125878. McAfee. Andrew. Harvard Business Press .
8. News: Harvard Business Review: Shattering the Myths About Enterprise 2.0 . November 2009.
9. News: Race Against the Machine: How the Digital Revolution is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming Employment and the Economy . January 23, 2012. 978-0984725113. Brynjolfsson. Erik. McAfee. Andrew. Brynjolfsson and McAfee .
10. News: New York Times: More Jobs Predicted for Machines, Not People . October 23, 2011 . The New York Times . Steve . Lohr.
11. Book: McAfee, Andrew. More from less : the surprising story of how were learning to prosper using fewer resourcesand... what happens next.. 978-1982103576. [S.l.]. 1085159635. October 8, 2019.