- Taught at MIT, Yale, Tufts, Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge, Texas Tech, Sorbonne Paris, 5,500 university students, supervised 54 thesis
- Created 26 companies, 6 public (Cambridge Technology Partners, OEC, etc) and thousands of jobs
- MIT: Tenure, professor Management, Electrical Engineering; affiliated Economics, member Project MAC, Post Doctorate Fellow, Schultz award excellence in teaching
- Tufts School of Medicine, Clinical professor of Pediatrics, Director, Birth Defects Center, Faculty awards for research
- Chief Science Advisor, Palm Beach Medical College
- Authored 20 books, translated into 14 languages, 84 publications, 15 patents
- Research contributions in operating systems, business, technology, energy, and birth defects
- Led 200 workshops including; DOD, Navy, Jacksonville Electric Authority, Grand River Hospital, GM, AGEON, United Heath, Scooter Store.
- Led 600 executive courses sponsored by AT&T, Oracle, HP, CITI group, SAP, NCR, Unisys, IBM, Informix, Lawson, Samsung, KPMG, DEC, Sun, taught 25, 000 executives in 40 countries
- Received commendations from 12 Governors, DoD, Congress, Senate, and President George H. W. Bush
- Technology adviser to President Ford, President Carter, President Regan and President Bush
- Fellow, Yale University
- Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Hamilton Thorne
- Commendation from Red Cross for work on birth defects and blood safety
- Commendations from Lynn School system and town of Hamilton for charitable work with children
- 40 year effort, purchasing, enhancing and preserving 1000 acres of open land
- Created and donated ball fields, with son John, for the use by town of Hamilton little league
- Endowed scholarships at Yale for children of city workers, "Donovan Scholars " fellowships at Boston Univ.
- Educated: Yale (Ph.D), Yale (M.S.), Yale College (M.Eng.), Tufts (B.S.), MIT (Postdoctorate), University of Economics (Prague) (Honorary Doctorate Economics)