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Adam Saunders
Lecturer

Adam Saunders is a Lecturer in the Operations and Information Management Department at the Wharton School, and a Ph.D. candidate at MIT's Sloan School of Management.

His research attempts to quantify technology-related intangible assets that are playing a significant role in generating market value and productivity. He is also interested in exploring how IT is changing the competitive playing field among U.S. firms.

Before entering MIT, Adam worked at the President’s Council of Economic Advisers in Washington, D.C. He holds an A.B. in Economics summa cum laude and a Certificate in Finance from Princeton University.

Publications

Erik Brynjolfsson, Adam Saunders (2009), Wired for Innovation: How Information Technology is Reshaping the Economy, MIT Press (Chapter 1 here)

Erik Brynjolfsson, Adam Saunders (2009), What the GDP Gets Wrong (Why Managers Should Care), Sloan Management Review, Vol. 51, no. 1, p. 95-96

Current Research

Adam Saunders, Has Information Technology Leveled the Competitive Playing Field?

Adam Saunders, Erik Brynjolfsson,, An Asset Approach to Valuing Information

David Croson, Adam Saunders, Competition and Cooperation in the Bundled Software Market

Erik Brynjolfsson, Lorin M. Hitt, Adam Saunders, Information Technology and Organizational Capital

In the News

Valuing the Digital Economy, Nature 462, p.165 (12 November 2009).
Book Review - Wired for Innovation: How Information Technology is Reshaping the Economy

Back to the Circuit Board, The Economist 393, p.73 (24 October 2009).

Honors And Awards

NBER Boston Research Data Center Dissertation Fellowship, 2006-2007

DuWayne J. Peterson Graduate Fellowship in Information Technology, 2004-2007

MIT Presidential Fellow, 2003-2004

Walter P. Sauer Prize for the most creative thesis in international trade (runner-up), 2001

Richard D. Challener ’44 Prize for best thesis in Canadian Studies (honorable mention), 2001

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Adam Saunders
3730 Walnut Street
560 Jon M. Huntsman Hall
Philadelphia, PA19104
Phone: (215) 573-5046
asaund@wharton.upenn.edu

Research Interests: Information Technology and Economics, Competitive Strategy, Productivity, Pricing of Information Goods, E-Commerce, Organizational Capital.

Last Modified November 11, 2009