Shane Greenstein is Professor at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. He is the Kellogg Chair of Information Technology. He was Administrative Head of the Management and Strategy department from 2002 to 2005. For AY 2013-14 he is the Thomas Henry Carroll Ford Foundation Visiting Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. Greenstein is Co-director of the program on the economics of digitisation at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

He is presently finishing a history of the development of the commercial Internet in the United States, called Innovation from the Edges. He also publishes commentary on his blog virulent word of mouse and digitopoly. Greenstein received his BA from University of California at Berkeley in 1983, and his PhD from Stanford University in 1989, both in economics. He also continues to receive a daily education in life from his wife and children.