Arun Sundararajan

– Professor of Information, Operations and Management Sciences
– NEC Faculty Fellow
– Doctoral Coordinator, IOMS-Information Systems

Leonard N. Stern School of Business
Kaufman Management Center
44 West Fourth Street, 8-93
New York, NY 10012

E-mail asundara@stern.nyu.edu
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Biography

Professor Arun Sundararajan's research program studies digital economics and how information technologies transform business and society. Some of his current and recent research focuses on the emergence of digital institutions to facilitate economic and political development, contagion in networks and social media, online privacy, pricing in digital markets and managing digital piracy. He has published in journals including Decision Support Systems, Economics Letters, Information Systems Research, Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of Management Information Systems, Management Science, MIS Quarterly, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Statistical Science and Social Networks, and has given more than 200 conference and invited presentations internationally. His research has won three Best Paper awards and has been recently profiled by trade publications that include Fast Company, the Financial Times, Forbes, and the Wall Street Journal.

Professor Sundararajan is a Senior Editor of the journal Information Systems Research and has served on the editorial boards of MIS Quarterly and Management Science. He was the founding co-chair of the NYU Summer Workshop on the Economics of IT and of the Workshop on Information in Networks. His past doctoral students hold academic positions at a number of leading institutions. His opinion pieces have appeared in Bloomberg, CIO Magazine, the Economic Times, the Financial Times, Harvard Business Review, Knowledge@Wharton, the Mint and Wired. His research has been supported by organizations that include Google, IBM, Microsoft, the MPAA and Yahoo!