Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Academic, author, advisor, speaker and pioneer on family enterprise, family wealth, and the family office.
Dr. Davis joined the Harvard Business School (HBS) faculty in 1996, and over 21 years, created and led Harvard's family business management studies. He taught and chaired executive programs, MBA courses, and custom management programs, and is the Founding Chair of the Families in Business executive program that he created in 1997 and led for two decades. He taught family business management, leadership, ownership, governance, change management, and life planning in several executive programs, including the Owner/President Management program, Key Executives, Boards for Private Companies, Launching New Ventures, Real Estate Management, and Leading and Transforming Family Businesses—China. He was faculty chair of the program Crossroads: Discovering the Path Ahead, which offered individuals at a career or life juncture the tools to design a life strategy. In the MBA program, he created and led the MBA course, Management of the Family Business, which explored the management, career, and personal issues found in family-owned companies. He taught the MBA course, Building a Business in the Context of a Life, which addressed entrepreneurship, life planning, and personal and business success.