Ajit Kambil is the Global Director of Deloitte Research. He is also a Distinguished Scholar in Residence at Babson College. Dr. Kambil’s management research focuses on harnessing the value of emerging technologies to improve business performance.  His technical research focuses on combining human and machine intelligence to improve information retrieval and knowledge management in organizations.

Dr. Kambil is widely published in leading business journals and magazines such as the Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, Across the Board, Journal of Business Strategy and Management Science. He has also published in technology journals such as Communications of the ACM, IEEE Computer and the Journal of the American Society for Information Sciences. As a leading expert on the design of electronic markets and auctions, Harvard Business School Press published his book (co-authored with Dr. Eric van Heck) - Making Markets: How to Profit from Online Auctions and Exchanges, in June 2002.

Prior to joining Deloitte in 2003, Dr. Kambil was a senior research fellow at Accenture’s Institute for Strategic Change where he led diverse research initiatives in electronic commerce, innovation, supply chains and marketing. Previously he was on the faculty of New York University’s Stern School of Business, where he introduced electronic commerce into the MBA and executive programs, and led the National Science Foundation sponsored project that pioneered the dissemination of US corporate disclosures on the Internet. Dr. Kambil earned a PhD in Management Information Technologies, Master of Science degrees in Technology and Policy, and Management Science, and a Bachelor of Science degree Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT.