Harvey Justin Davidson was an American educator, the sixth Dean of the S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management

S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management

The Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management is the graduate business school of Cornell University, a private Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York. It was founded in 1946 and renamed in 1984 after Samuel Curtis Johnson, founder of S.C...

 at Cornell University

Cornell University

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 and Dean of the Fisher College of Business at Ohio State University

Ohio State University

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. Prior to his work at Cornell and Ohio State, he was a partner at Touche Ross Bailey & Smart's in Detroit, Michigan. Dean Davidson was only thirty-eight years old when appointed the sixth dean. He was the first not to be an academic. He died October 28, 1999.

Davidson was spouse to Shirlee Ploeger Davidson (1930–2007) of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Both were graduates of Carnegie Mellon University. They had four children, Charles Justin Davidson of Philadelphia, John Clinton Davidson of San Francisco, James Christopher Davidson of Washington, DC and Jennifer Davidson Jaffe of Traverse City.