Arun Sundararajan

Harold Price Professor of Entrepreneurship and Technology @ New York University

About

I'm fascinated by how digital technologies change the world: this is the subject of my book (in English, 官话, 日本語, 한국어, Tiếng Việt and Português), 40+ op-eds, 50+ scientific papers, 100+ keynote talks, and undergraduate, MBA and executive teaching. A more formal bio is below. Arun Sundararajan is the Harold Price Professor of Entrepreneurship and Professor of Technology, Operations and Statistics at New York University's Leonard N. Stern School of Business, and an affiliated faculty member at NYU's Center for Data Science and NYU’s Center for Urban Science+Progress. His best-selling book, “The Sharing Economy,” published by the MIT Press, was the winner of a 2017 Axiom Best Business Books Award, and has been translated into five languages. Arun’s work studies how digital technologies transform business, government and civil society. His recent focus has been on the future of capitalism, artificial intelligence and platform-enabled change, antitrust policy in tech, digital trust and the digital future of work. He has published over 50 peer-reviewed scientific papers and over 40 op-eds. His scholarship has been recognized by numerous Best Paper awards and faculty awards. He has given hundreds of invited keynote and plenary talks globally. He has provided expert input as part of Congressional testimony, testimony to the European Parliament, the United Nations, and to various city, state and federal government agencies internationally. Arun has been a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Councils on Technology, Values and Policy and the New Economic Agenda. He is a 2016 Thinkers50 Radar Thinker. He is an advisor or board member of organizations that include the National Academy of Science, the Carnegie Council, the City of New York, the City of Seoul, Walmart, Rally Rd., the Female Founders Fund, the Internet Society of China, OuiShare, Samasource and the National League of Cities. He is an occasional angel investor. He helps tech companies with issues of strategy, litigation and regulation, and non-tech companies with forecasting and addressing changes induced by digital technologies.

Country

United States

City

New York

Industry

Research

Skill

Public Speaking, Business Strategy, Digital Strategy, Social Networking, Sharing Economy, Economics, Public Policy, Strategy, Digital Marketing, Start-ups, Social Media, Game Theory, Data Analysis, E-commerce, Higher Education, Social Media Marketing, Economic Development, Cloud Computing, Data Mining, SaaS

Experience

Harold Price Professor of Entrepreneurship and Technology

New York University

2000 - Present · 26 yrs

Greater New York City Area

I am fascinated by how digital technologies disrupt, transform and reshape business and society. A significant recent focus of my writing, research and speaking has been about generative AI, the governance of artificial intelligence, platforms and antitrust, the sharing economy, the future of work, competitive strategy, digital trust, and the future of our social contract. I spend a lot of my time with tech companies at various stages on issues of strategy, litigation and regulation, and with non-tech companies trying to understand how to forecast and address changes induced by digital technologies. I help federal, state and city government agencies think through policy issues related to digital disruption. I teach in numerous NYU Stern executive education programs through the year, in the US, Europe and Asia, primarily about AI, platforms and digital strategy. I teach our full-time students about AI, hi-tech entrepreneurship and digital economics.

Director, Fubon Center for Technology, Business and Innovation

New York University

2024-7 - Present · 2 yrs 3 mos

Author, "The Sharing Economy: The End of Employment and the Rise of Crowd-Based Capitalism"

The MIT Press

2016-6 - Present · 10 yrs 4 mos

In "The Sharing Economy," published by the MIT Press in the US in June 2016, I introduce the idea of crowd-based capitalism, how it presents a new way to organize the world's economic activity that changes what it means to have a job, redefines business models across industries, and calls into question our regulatory systems, the social contract, and the basis for commercial trust. The Japanese language translation was released in November 2016. The Mandarin Chinese language translation and the US paperback versions were released in April 2017. The Korean language, Vietnamese language and Portuguese language versions were released in 2018 and 2019. (Find out more at http://s12y.com/)