Thomas H. Davenport

Tom Davenport is the President’s Distinguished Professor of Information Technology and Management at Babson College, a Fellow of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, and a Senior Advisor to Deloitte’s Chief Data and Analytics Officer Program. In 2024–25 he served as the Bodily Bicentennial Professor of Analytics at the UVA Darden School of Business. 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 has published 25 books and over 300 articles for Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, and many other publications. His most recent book is All Hands on Tech: The AI-Powered Citizen Revolution, co-authored with Ian Barkin. 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 has also been a LinkedIn Top Voice for both the education and tech sectors.