Patrick J McGovern Professor of Management
MIT Sloan School of Management

Thomas Malone is Patrick J McGovern Professor of Management at MIT Sloan School of Management.  He is also the founding director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence (CCI), formed in 2006, which studies how new communications technologies, especially the Internet, now allow huge numbers of people all over the globe to work together in new ways. 

In addition to the CCI, he was the founding director of the MIT Center for Coordination Science and one of two founding co-directors of the MIT initiative on Inventing the Organizations of the 21^st Century.

For two decades, Professor Malone has been a visionary proponent of new organizational designs that take maximum advantage of information technology’s expanding possibilities.  He predicted many major developments in electronic business over the past decade in a 1987 article; electronic buying and selling, electronic markets for many kinds of products, outsourcing of non-core functions in a firm, and the use of intelligent agents for commerce.

He is the author of The Future of Work:  How the New Order of Business Will Shape Your Organization, Your Management Style, and Your Life, a landmark exploration of the company of the future published in seven languages.  He has published over 75 articles, research papers and book chapters, and is the co-editor of three books:  Coordination Theory and Collaboration Technology, Inventing the Organizations of the 21^st Century and Organizing Business Knowledge:  The MIT Process Handbook.