Arun Sundararajan

– Associate 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 the economics of information technology and the IT-enabled transformation of business and society. He coordinates Stern's undergraduate core course in information systems and is director of the School's IS doctoral program. Some of his current and recent research focuses on the use of information technologies to facilitate economic and political development, contagion in networks and social media, 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 and Statistical Science, and has given more than 100 conference and invited presentations internationally. His research has won three Best Paper awards and has been profiled by numerous trade publications.

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 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 BusinessWorld, CIO Magazine, the Economic Times, the Financial Times, Harvard Business Review, Knowledge@Wharton and the Mint (Wall Street Journal India). His research has been supported by organizations that include Google, IBM, Microsoft, the MPAA and Yahoo!