Tom Davenport

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, and a Senior Advisor to Deloitte Analytics. Davenport is an expert on analytics and artificial intelligence and he advises a number of companies and startups in that capacity.

He has written or edited many books and over 250 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, Boston University, and the University of Texas at Austin.

One of HBR’s most frequently published authors, Davenport 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 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. Davenport’s book, co-authored with Julia Kirby, "Only Humans Need Apply: Winners and Losers in the Age of Smart Machines," offers tangible tools for individuals who need to work with cognitive technologies and in his 2018 book, "The AI Advantage: How to Put the Artificial Intelligence Revolution to Work," he provides a guide to using artificial technologies in business.