Ajit Kambil is the global director of Deloitte Research. He is also a distinguished scholar in residence at Babson College.

Ajit’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.

Before joining Deloitte in 2003, Ajit 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. He was previously 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 a project sponsored by the National Science Foundation that pioneered the dissemination of U.S. corporate disclosures on the Internet.

Ajit 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 also has published in technology journals such as Communications of the ACM, IEEE Computer and the Journal of the American Society for Information Sciences. A recognized leader in the design of electronic markets and auctions, Harvard Business School Press published his book Making Markets: How to Profit from Online Auctions and Exchanges, in June 2002. The book was co-written with Dr. Eric van Heck.

Ajit Kambil earned a PhD in management information technologies, Masters of Science degrees in technology and policy, and in management science. He earned a Bachelor of Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in electrical engineering and computer science.