John J. Donovan (born 1942) is a retired professor of electrical engineering and management at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was a professor of pediatrics at Tufts University, and is an executive training guru. Donovan made headlines in 2007 when he was convicted of filing a false police report. Prosecutors produced evidence that Donovan staged an elaborate hoaxâwhich included shooting himself in the stomach and then blaming the shooting on his eldest son. In August 2010, a judge denied Donovan’s motion for a new trial. In September, Donovan announced that he has formed a partnership with The Andrews Institute and Baptist Health Care in Pensacola, Florida. In his press release, Donovan says Harvard Medical School Professor and Economist Thomas McGuire will undertake research regarding the medical work at the Andrews Institute. He is researching medical fraud. He is a member of Hamilton Thorne’s Scientific Advisory Board. Since his MIT retirement, he has become a successful entrepreneur, founding many technology companies and amassing an estimated fortune of $100 million. He has co-founded seven public companies, including Cambridge Technology Partners and Open Environment Corporation. He developed innovative solutions for some 200 institutions, including Oracle, Boeing, AA, Aegon, BP, IBM, HP, Samsung, SAP.
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