Jim H. Davis 

Jim Davis is the Vernon M. and MaRee C. Buehler Endowed Professor of Management, Chairman of the Marketing and Strategy Department, and Executive Director of Executive Education in the Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University since 2011. He was the John F. O’Shaughnessy Professor of Family Enterprises and Professor of Strategic Management in the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame for over twenty- five years, beginning in 1991. He has also been a professor on the graduate and executive education faculty at Purdue University, Indiana University, Grand Valley State University and the German International School of Management and Administration. He is also an affiliate with Dublin City University, Ireland.

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Professor Davis has worked with many major national and multinational corporations throughout the world on strategic planning, innovation, change leadership and market positioning. He has designed and taught executive development workshops for a wide range of corporations and trade associations. He has worked with a number of companies with strategic planning throughout the world including the DEA, Thor Industries, National Council of State Housing Agencies, and The International CarWash Association, Drug Enforcement Agencies (United States and Azerbaijan), Continental Tire (Europe, China, India, Malaysia, Brazil), Sennheiser (Germany, North America), Koerber (Germany, China), Bayer and Lanxess (North America and Germany), Far Eastern Group (Taiwan), Commodities Exchange and Government of Estonia, Cape Union Mart and Ikamva Labantu (South Africa), Coosalud,Chamber of Commerce (Colombia), Nestles (Mexico), Seminarium (Chile, Brazil, Costa Rica, Panama, Columbia, etc). He designed an experiential learning approach at the University of Notre Dame that has linked Notre Dame College of Business Students with hundreds of for and not-for- profit organizations throughout the world.

 

Professor Davis has received numerous outstanding teaching awards at the University of Notre Dame and at Purdue University. His research focuses upon strategy, stewardship, corporate governance, trust, legacy and family business. The Academy of Management Review recognized his trust research as the most influential theory article of the decade 1990-2000.