Facts: - known for: productivity cyberbalkanization paradox the long tail bundling of information goods - caption: at the mit sloan cio symposium 2013 - fields: information systems economics technological change - workplaces: mit sloan school of management - notable students: sinan yang michael d. smith yu -lrb- jeffrey -rrb- hu xiaoquan aral -lrb- michael -rrb- zhang lorin m. hitt marshall van alstyne shinkyu - awards: john science d.c. little award for best paper in marketing - name: erik brynjolfsson - citizenship: united states of america - image: erik brynjolfsson at mit sloan cio symposium 2013.jpg - birth year: 1962 - alma mater: harvard mit Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of erik brynjolfsson .
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erik brynjolfsson -lrb- born 1962 -rrb- is an american academic , and schussel family professor of management at the mit sloan school of management , the director of the mit initiative on the digital economy , director of the mit center for digital business and a research associate at the national bureau of economic research , known for his contributions to the world of it productivity research and work on the economics of information more generally .