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Tom Davenport

Professor at Babson Olin Graduate School of Business

Professor at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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  • Babson Olin Graduate School of Business
  • Sloan School of Management
  • Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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Babson Olin Graduate School of Business

Tom Davenport is the President's Distinguished Professor of Information Technology and Management at Babson College, co-founder of the International Institute for Analytics, Fellow at the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, and Senior Advisor to Deloitte Analytics. He teaches analytics/big data in executive programs at Babson, Harvard Business School and School of Public Health, and MIT Sloan School.

Davenport pioneered the concept of competing on analytics with his best-selling 2006 Harvard Business Review article and 2007 book. His most recent book is The AI Advantage: How to Put the Artificial Intelligence Revolution to Work. He wrote or edited nineteen other books and over 200 articles for Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, The Financial Times, and many other publications. He is a regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal and Forbes. He has been named one of the top 25 consultants by Consulting News, one of the 100 most influential people in the IT industry by Ziff-Davis, and one of the world's top fifty business school professors by Fortune magazine.

Academic Degrees

  • Ph D, Harvard University
  • MA, Harvard University
  • BA, Trinity University

Awards & Honors

  • 2018 — Article in 2019 "Must Reads" book from Harvard Business Review, Harvard Business Publishing
  • 2018 — Top Tech Voice on LinkedIn for 2018, LinkedIn
  • 2017 — Top Ten Big Data, Data Science Influencers on LinkedIn, KD Nuggets
  • 2016 — #1 Voice for 2016 in Education, LinkedIn
  • 2016 — Babson Faculty Scholarship Award, Babson College
  • 2016 — Ten "Must Reads" for 2017, Harvard Business Review
  • 2015 — "Highly Commended Award", Emerald Literati Network
  • 2013 — Top 50 business school professors in the world, Poets & Quants/Fortune magazine
  • 2007 — Named one of the 100 most influential people in the information technology industry , editors of several Ziff-Davis publications
  • 2005 — Named one of top 3 “business/technology analysts” in the world, Optimize magazine
  • 2004 — Best paper awards for Business Process Management Journal and Journal of Enterprise Information Management,
  • 2004 — Named one of the top 25 consultants in the world , Consulting magazine
  • 2001 — Attention Economy named one of 30 best business books of the year,
  • 2001 — Invited to attend Fortune Magazine’s “Brainstorm 2001: The Smartest People We Know” conference in Aspen,
  • 2001 — Named one of 25 “E-Business Gurus”, Darwin magazine
  • 2000 — Named one of 10 “Masters of the New Economy", CIO magazine
  • 1996 — Board of Judges, McKinsey Prize (best article), Harvard Business Review
  • 1995 — Invited to give “State of the Art” video presentation for Australian Association for Computing Machinery,
  • 1995 — Judge, Arthur D. Little Process Management Award,
  • 1994 — Judge, CIO 100 (best 100 firms in IT management),
  • 1993 — Commencement address, Boston University M.S. in Management Information Systems
  • 1993 — Ernst & Young’s first “Value Creation Award” , Ernst & Young
  • 1993 — Process Innovation voted one of 10 best business books of 1993, Library Journal
  • 1992 — “Outstanding Harvard Dissertations” , Harvard
  • 1990 — Richard Beckhard Award , Sloan Management Review
  • 1980 — Post-Doctoral Fellowship, National Institute of Mental Health
  • 1980 — Post-Doctoral Fellowship,, National Institute of Mental Health
  • 1976 — Graduate Fellowship, National Science Foundation
  • 1976 — Phi Beta Kappa, Blue Key, Trinity University

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Tom Davenport is the President’s Distinguished Professor of Information Technology and Management at Babson College, the co-founder of the International Institute for Analytics, a Fellow of the MIT Center for Digital Business, and a Senior Advisor to Deloitte Analytics. He teaches analytics and big data in executive programs at Babson, Harvard Business School, MIT Sloan School, and Boston University.

Davenport pioneered the concept of “competing on analytics” with his best-selling 2006 Harvard Business Review article (and his 2007 book by the same name). His most recent book is Big Data@Work, from Harvard Business Review Press, and he has a forthcoming book called Only Humans Need Apply: Winners and Losers in the Age of Smart Machines in early 2016.. He wrote or edited sixteen other books and over 100 articles for Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, the Financial Times, and many other publications. He also writes a regular column for the Wall Street Journal’s Corporate Technology section. In 2003 he was named one of the world’s “Top 25 Consultants” by Consulting magazine. In 2005 Optimize magazine’s readers named him among the top 3 business/technology analysts in the world. In 2007 and 2008 he was named one of the 100 most influential people in the IT industry by Ziff-Davis magazines. In 2012 he was named one of the world’s top fifty business school professors by Fortune magazine.

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