Tom Davenport, Distinguished Professor, Babson College
Tom Davenport is the President’s Distinguished Professor of Information Technology and Management and the Faculty Director of the Metropoulos Institute for Technology and Entrepreneurship at Babson College, a Visiting Professor at the UVA Darden School of Business, a Fellow of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, and a Senior Advisor to Deloitte’s Chief Data and Analytics Officer program. He pioneered the concept of “competing on analytics” with his best-selling 2006 Harvard Business Review article (and his 2007 book by the same name). He recently co-authored the book is All Hands on Tech: The AI-Powered Citizen Revolution (with Ian Barkin), and he has also co-authored the book Agentic Artificial Intelligence. He has published 26 books and over 300 articles for Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, and many other publications. He writes columns for Forbes, MIT Sloan Management Review, and the Wall Street Journal. He has been named one of the world’s “Top 25 Consultants” by Consulting magazine, one of the top 3 business/technology analysts in the world by Optimize magazine, one of the 100 most influential people in the IT industry by Ziff-Davis magazines, and one of the world’s top fifty business school professors by Fortune magazine. He’s also been a LinkedIn Top Voice for both the education and tech sectors.
