Arun Sundararajan (

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: அருண் சுந்தர்ராஜன்) (born in the

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) is the Harold Price Professor of Entrepreneurship and Professor of Technology, Operations, and Statistics at the

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. For 2010–12, he is the Distinguished Academic Fellow at the Center for IT and the Networked Economy,

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. Sundararajan is an expert on the economics of digital goods and network effects. He also conducts research about

network science Network science is an academic field which studies complex networks such as telecommunication networks, computer networks, biological networks, Cognitive network, cognitive and semantic networks, and social networks, considering distinct eleme ...

and the socioeconomic transformation of India.

Life and work

Arun Sundararajan graduated from the

Indian Institute of Technology Madras The Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras or IIT-M) is a public technical university located in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. It is one of the eight public Institutes of Eminence of India. As an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), ...

in 1993 with a BTech in

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. He subsequently attended the

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where he received an M.Phil. in

operations research Operations research () (U.S. Air Force Specialty Code: Operations Analysis), often shortened to the initialism OR, is a branch of applied mathematics that deals with the development and application of analytical methods to improve management and ...

and a PhD in

business administration Business administration is the administration of a commercial enterprise. It includes all aspects of overseeing and supervising the business operations of an organization. Overview The administration of a business includes the performance o ...

. After he earned his doctorate, he joined the faculty at

, where his work focuses on the transformation of business and society by information technologies, and the Indian economy. Sundararajan's scholarly research analyzes what makes the economics of IT products and industries unique. He asserts that there are three technological invariants—digitization, exponential growth, and modularity—that have characterized and distinguished information technologies since the 1960s, and that these invariants lead to the ubiquity of information goods, digital piracy and network effects in IT industries. His research papers illustrate how these distinctive economics of information technologies warrant new pricing strategies, careful digital rights management, and a deeper understanding of network structure and dynamics. Sundararajan periodically writes and speaks about transformation through information technologies and business with a frequent focus on privacy and on India. He has been elected to the editorial boards of the prestigious journals Management Science and

Information Systems Research ''Information Systems Research'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that covers research in the areas of information systems and information technology, including cognitive psychology, economics, computer science, operations research, de ...

(where he is currently a Senior Editor). He co-founded the NYU Summer Workshop on the Economics of Information Technology and the Workshop on Information in Networks. He received a 2010 Google-WPP Marketing Research Award,Professors Anindya Ghose and Arun Sundararajan Granted Prestigious Google & WPP Marketing Research Awards
/ref> the Best Paper award at the 2008 INFORMS Conference on Information Systems and Technology, and the Best Overall Paper award at the 2004 International Conference on Information Systems.

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External links

Arun Sundararajan's personal web page

NYU Stern Faculty Page

Center for IT and the Networked Economy, Indian School of Business
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