John Fralick (Jack) Rockart (1931 – February 3, 2014[1]) was an American organizational theorist, and Senior Lecturer Emeritus at the Center for Information Systems Research at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Born in New York City, Rockart received his AB from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, his MBA from Harvard Business School, and in 1968 his PhD in management from MIT.
[2] After graduation, Rockart started his academic career as Instructor in the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Since 1976 he was also Director of the MIT Center for Information Systems Research (CISR),[3] where he was succeeded by Peter Weill in 2000.
Rockart's research interests focused on the "managers’ usage of computer-based information with a special concentration on the need to design information flow for effective decision making... [and] the changing role of information technology and the implementation of integrated global systems.