Babson Professors Selected Among Best Business and Management Scientists

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Four Babson College professors and prolific researchers were recently named among the top 500 Best Business and Management Scientists in the world by Research.com, a leading academic platform for researchers.

Dhruv Grewal, a professor of marketing and the Toyota Professor in Commerce and Electronic Business, was ranked No. 13 in the United States and No. 24 in the world. Grewal, who was selected to Poets & Quants’ list of 50 Best Undergraduate Business Professors of 2024, has been repeatedly recognized as one of the most published and most highly cited researchers.


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Thomas Davenport, the President’s Distinguished Professor of Information Technology and the inaugural faculty director of the C. Dean Metropoulos Institute for Technology and Entrepreneurship, was ranked 85th in the United States and 168th in the world.

Candida Brush P’14, the F.W. Olin Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship, was ranked 99th in the nation and 204th in the world. She is a highly accomplished entrepreneurship research pioneer and educator and is the co-founder of the Diana Project™.

William Gartner, the Bertarelli Foundation Distinguished Professor of Family Entrepreneurship and director of research at the Bertarelli Institute for Family Entrepreneurship, was ranked 203rd in the nation and 458th in the world.

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