Donna B. Stoddard

Associate Professor Information Technology Management

Chair, Technology, Operations and Information Management Division

 

Babson College

Babson Park, MA

 

Donna Stoddard is Associate Professor of Information Technology Management (ITM) and Chair of the Technology, Operations, and Information Management Division at Babson College.  From 2004 to 2006, she was the faculty coordinator of Babson College’s flagship undergraduate course, the Foundation Management Experience (FME).[1]  Dr. Stoddard teaches undergraduate, graduate and executive education courses related to management information systems, business strategy and entrepreneurship.  Before joining the Babson faculty, Dr. Stoddard was on the faculty at Harvard Business School where she taught in the MBA and executive education programs.  She is a graduate of Creighton University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Harvard Business School where she received her BS, MBA and DBA, respectively.

 

Dr. Stoddard has written a number of cases and articles on reengineering and the impact of information technology on the structure and strategy of the firm.  Dr. Stoddard’s articles have been published in such journals as Harvard Business Review, California Management Review, MIS Quarterly, and Journal of MIS.  She recently completed a study, in partnership with Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and funded by the Kauffman Foundation, which documented the “State of Minority Business Enterprises (MBE) in Massachusetts.” 

 

Before entering the doctoral program at the Harvard Business School, Dr. Stoddard spent several years in various marketing positions at IBM where she worked with large financial services and manufacturing companies.  While working on the audit staff of Peat Marwick Mitchell, she passed the CPA exam.  Dr. Stoddard has extensive experience with executive and management development programs.  She has developed and run management training classes for The Travelers and State Street Boston Corporation.  In addition, she has served as a speaker at management and senior executive conferences sponsored by IBM, KPMG Peat Marwick, Ernst & Young, MIT, Boston University, Johnson and Johnson and SIEMENS Rolm Communications. 

 

Dr. Stoddard serves as a trustee and member of the executive committee of the Meadowbrook School of Weston.  Additionally, she is a member of the Board of Overseers for the Boys and Girls Club of Boston.  She was formerly a member of the Board of Directors for the Boys and Girls Club of Boston and was formerly a trustee and a member of the executive committee for Noble and Greenough School.

 

 

July 2006.

 



[1] In 2005,  The United States Association for Small Business & Entrepreneurship (USASBE) named FME the number one “Innovative Entrepreneurship Education Course” in the country.