Thomas W. Malone

Thomas W. Malone is the Patrick J. McGovern Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He holds joint appointments as Professor of Information Technology and Professor of Work and Organizational Studies. As founding director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, he leads pioneering research on how people and computers can connect intelligently. Previously, he founded the MIT Center for Coordination Science and co-directed the MIT Initiative on 'Inventing the Organizations of the 21st Century'. His teaching focuses on organizational design, IT, and leadership.

His research examines how new organizations leverage information technology, with groundbreaking predictions about electronic business in 1987. Major works include the influential books The Future of Work (2004) and Superminds (2018). Research areas span:

• Collective Intelligence: Designing systems combining human and machine intelligence
• Organizational Structure: Decentralization, coordination, and future work models
• Climate Solutions: Crowdsourcing through Climate CoLab
• AI Implications: Human-AI collaboration in business strategy

His publications demonstrate consistent focus on collective problem-solving, with recent emphasis on AI-workforce integration, remote team intelligence, and computational group metrics. Key research projects include the Collective Intelligence Design Lab, Minglr, Climate CoLab, and Measuring Collective Intelligence.

Honors include an honorary doctorate from the University of Zurich. He co-founded four software companies and holds 11 patents in collaboration systems and organizational modeling.

He directs the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, leading interdisciplinary teams on global challenges. Current initiatives explore AI-enhanced prediction markets, collective intelligence genomes, and hybrid human-machine systems for organizational design.