LEO Award Winner - John. F. Rockart
			John. F. Rockart John F. Rockart is currently Senior Lecturer Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Tech¬nology Sloan School of Manage¬ment. Before retiring, he held the George and Sandra Schussel Distinguished Senior Lecturer of Information Technology Chair at the Sloan School. Starting in 1967, he taught and conducted research on the management and use of information technology at MIT. For 25 years (1975 to 2000), he was the Director of the Center for Information Systems Research at the Sloan School. During this time, the Center pro¬duced more than 300 research papers in the field of information technology, held more than 100 seminars for sponsors, and pursued major efforts in MIT-based executive education for com¬panies such as Johnson & Johnson, GE, and McKinsey. Jack is best known for the development of the critical success factors (CSF) method for information and information systems planning and the seminal articles that served to initiate the field of executive support systems (ESS). In his role as Senior Lecturer Emeritus, he remains active. His current research interest is the effective provision of information to executives. In 1983, the American Association of Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), awarded Jack its prize for the “Innovative Course of the Year.” He has twice co-chaired the annual conference of the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), the primary research conference in the information technology field for faculty of schools of management. He currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of Management Information Systems Quarterly – Executive. In 1999, Jack was a recipient of the Sloan School’s “Community Appreciation Awards” for service to the school. He has been heavily involved with students, leading a Sloan “track” for students interested in the IT field for many years. Jack is co-editor of the book, The Rise of Managerial Computing, with Christine V. Bullen. He also has co-authored two books, Computers and the Learning Process (with Michael Scott Morton), and Executive Support Systems: The Emergence of Top Management Computer Use (with David DeLong). The latter was the 1989 non-fiction winner of the Computer Press Association Book of the Year Award. He has published more than 50 papers and articles. Among them are “Chief Executives Define Their Own Data Needs” and “The CEO Goes On-Line,” both of which appeared in the Harvard Business Review. He received his undergraduate degree from Princeton, his M.B.A. from Harvard, and his Ph.D. from MIT. Jack currently serves on the Board of Directors of Keane, Inc., an Amex company soon to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange, and Selective Insurance, a Nasdaq company. He is currently Vice-Chairman of New England Medical Center, a Boston teaching hospital. He is also Academic Vice-President of the Society for Information Management, the leading organization of chief information officers and other informa¬tion systems professionals in the United States. During the past 20 years, Jack has served on the boards of directors of five other companies both public and private, all but one in the information technology field. All have been sold and merged into larger companies.