?Thomas Davenport is the President’s Distinguished Professor
of Information Technology and Management at Babson College. He is also the
co-founder of the International Institute for Analytics, a Senior Advisor to
Deloitte Analytics, an a Fellow of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy.
He teaches analytics and big data in executive programs at Babson, Harvard
Business School, MIT Sloan School, and Boston University. He pioneered the
concept of “competing on analytics” with his best-selling “Harvard
Business Review” article in 2006.

Thomas, a frequent innovator in the management literature,
has once again branched into an exciting new topic. He has extended his work on
analytics and big data to its logical conclusion?what happens to us humans when
smart machines make many important decisions? Davenport and Julia Kirby
published an HBR lead article in 2015 called “Beyond Automation”?which
editors named one of the best of that year?and a book from Harper Business in
2016 called “Only Humans Need Apply: Winners and Losers in the Age of Smart
Machines.” 

Professor Davenport has written or edited eighteen books and
over 100 articles for Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, the
Financial Times, and many other publications. He writes regularly for the
online sites of The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, and Harvard Business Review.
Thomas has 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.

Thomas earned a Ph.D. from Harvard University in social
science and has taught at the Harvard Business School, the University of
Chicago, Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business, Boston University, and the
University of Texas at Austin.