[AISWorld] Two Post-Doc opportunities at MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy

[George Westerman]

The MIT Sloan School of Management's Initiative on the Digital Economy (IDE) is recruiting for two Full-time Post-Doctoral Associate positions, available July 2018 for two years. 

1.) One position will focus on the "digitization" of business, with emphasis on the managerial practices, complementary investments, organizational design, and competitive dynamics related to the growing collection and use of data by firms. The work will involve collaboration with Professors Erik Brynjolfsson and Kristina McElheran (University of Toronto and IDE), as well as some time for independent research. The position will center on the use of novel US Census Bureau data on these topics and will involve considerable time devoted to working in one of the Census Bureau's Research Data Centers. Relocation to Cambridge MA is desirable, but not required.

2.) The second position will work on research projects under the supervision of faculty and other principal investigators.  High-level topic areas include: the impact of technological change on skills and wages, emergence of new digital business models, digital transformation of enterprises, mega-scale digital experimentation, social prediction, and others.  Our research projects balance rigor and relevance, aiming to produce papers for top academic journals while also informing policy and practice through other contributions.  This position will require living in the Cambridge MA area for the full two years.  

REQUIREMENTS
-- Highly motivated postdoctoral researcher(s) with extensive experience in (1) data preparation, data analysis, and econometrics; and (2) familiarity with and interest in the literatures on innovation, organizational economics, labor economics, and/or business strategy.  
-- Must be able to work well with academics and industry executives alike. 
-- English language skills (verbal and written) must be strong.  
-- Econometric skills must be strong, as demonstrated by publications or working papers.  
-- PhD in Management Science, Economics, or Information Systems must be completed before June 1, 2018. 

For the position with Professors Brynjolfsson and McElheran, strong preference will be given to those with Special Sworn Status at the US Census Bureau (or be in the process of acquiring such) and familiarity with the Research Data Center computing environment is a major plus.

SALARY
Commensurate with experience, and competitive with similar positions.

TO APPLY  
Please send a CV, letter of intent, and research samples to IDE Executive Director David Verrill (dverrill at mit.edu) by December 1, 2017.  Select candidates will be interviewed at ICIS, WISE or AEA conferences in December and January.  For those not attending any of these conferences, phone interviews will be scheduled in January 2018.

About the MIT Sloan School of Management and Initiative on the Digital Economy

The MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy (http://ide.mit.edu) is a team of internationally recognized thought leaders and researchers examining how people and businesses work, interact, and prosper in a time of rapid digital transformation.  Key elements of our work include a robust research (35 projects across four "pillars" of research) and publication agenda; convenings for scholars, practitioners, funders, and policymakers focused on the future of work; an Inclusive Innovation Challenge that celebrates organizations doing exemplary work on how to make today's economic gains more "inclusive" and sustained; and public communications via leading national and international media outlets that help to amplify our findings to even broader, non-specialist audiences.  This interconnected agenda, which builds on more than a decade of related work at MIT, has enabled the IDE to become - in just three years - a prominent, trusted, and non-partisan source of fact-based research at the center of a large and growing network of experts.