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). 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.