Biographical Information

Shane Greenstein

Shane Greenstein is the Elinor and Wendell Hobbs Professor of Management and Strategy at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. He is a leading researcher in the business economics of computing, communications and Internet infrastructure. His research and writing focus on a variety of topics in this area, including the adoption of client-server systems, the growth of commercial Internet access networks, the industrial economics of platforms, and changes in communications policy. Over a sixteen year career he has written and edited five books, and published over sixty refereed journal articles and book chapters. He has written over seventy other articles for policy and business audiences. He is regularly quoted in national and local media. He has been a regular columnist and essayist for IEEE Micro since 1995. In 2004 Greenstein published a collection of his columns in a book, Diamonds are Forever, Computers are not (Imperial College Press, 2004). Greenstein was the Program Chair for the Telecommunication Policy Research Conference in 2000 and co-chair with Victor Stango for a conference on standardization, held at the Chicago Federal Reserve Board. This led to an edited collection of papers, Standards and Public Policy (Cambridge Press, 2006). He is a participant in many national research organizations, including National Bureau of Economic Research and Conference on Research, Income and Wealth. He holds a BA from the University of California at Berkeley, and a PhD from Stanford University, both in economics.