Marshall Van Alstyne

Professor Van Alstyne is the Allen and Kelli Questrom Professor in Information Systems at Boston University.  Named a 2023 Thinkers50, he is one of the world’s foremost experts on network business models and coauthor of the international bestseller Platform Revolution. He conducts research on information economics, covering such topics as the economics of speech markets, platform economics, intellectual property, social effects of technology, and productivity effects of information. He has been a major contributor to the theory of two-sided networks taught worldwide, and to the theory of platforms as inverted firms, applied in antitrust law. His work has received more than 20,000 citations, includes a top 50 all-time article for Harvard Business Review, and was recognized by Thinkers 50 as among the most important management contributions globally. Research impact ranks in the top two percent of all scientists.

Honors include two patents, National Science Foundation SaTC, IOC, SGER, SBIR, iCorp and Career Awards, a dozen best paper awards, as well as INFORMS IS 2020 and Herbert Simon 2021 awards for research with real world impact. Articles or commentary have appeared in Science, Nature, Management Science, Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. He is a husband and dad, who loves dogs, exercise, travel, and questions of governance.

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