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 Initiative for the Digital Economy, a Visiting Professor at Brown’s School of Professional Studies, and a Senior Advisor to Deloitte’s Chief Data and Analytics Officer Program. He has written or edited 26 books and over 300 print or digital articles for Harvard Business Review (HBR), Sloan Management Review, the Financial Times, and many other publications. He earned his Ph.D from Harvard University and has taught at the Harvard Business School, the University of Chicago, the Tuck School of Business, the UVA Darden School of Business, Boston University, and the University of Texas at Austin.
One of HBR’s most frequently published authors, Tom has been at the forefront of the Process Innovation, Knowledge Management, and Analytics and Big Data movements. He pioneered the concept of “competing on analytics” with his 2006 Harvard Business Review article (voted by editors one of the 12 “must reads” in that journal’s first 100 years) and his 2007 book by the same name. Since then, he has continued to provide cutting-edge insights on how companies can use analytics and big data to their advantage, and then on artificial intelligence. Tom has written or co-authored seven books on AI, including the most recent one, Agentic Artificial Intelligence: Harnessing AI Agents in Business, Work, and Life. His previous book, All In on AI, was a Wall Street Journal bestseller.
He has also been named one of the top three business/technology analysts in the world, one of the 100 most influential people in the IT industry, and one of the world’s top fifty business school professors by Fortune magazine. He has also been named one of ten “Top Voices” by LinkedIn in both the Education and Technology categories.
Tom works with a variety of established companies and startups in the analytics and AI space. They include:
Deloitte’s Analytics and AI practice (Senior Advisor)
First Analytics (co-founder and Chairman)
APQC (Board member, Distinguished Research Fellow)
Glasswing Ventures (academic advisor)
Loop AI Labs (advisor)
Recorded Future (advisor)
Tamr (advisor)
Via (advisor)
