Tom Davenport holds the President's Chair in Information Technology and Management, and is Director of Research for the School of Executive Education at Babson.

He is also Director of the Accenture Institute for Strategic Change. He has taught at the Harvard Business School, the University of Chicago, Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business, and the University of Texas at Austin, and has directed research centers at Ernst & Young, McKinsey & Company, and CSC Index.

Professor Davenport wrote, co-authored or edited nine books, including the first books on business process reengineering, knowledge management, and enterprise systems. He has written hundreds of articles and columns for such publications as Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, California Management Review, Financial Times, Information Week, CIO, and many other publications. His latest book, The Attention Economy, was named one of the ten best books of 2001 by Amazon.com and Borders.com.

He is also a widely recognized and acclaimed speaker on the topics of information and knowledge management, reengineering, enterprise systems, and electronic business and markets. He has a Ph.D. from Harvard University in organizational behavior.