About UChicago Argonne, LLC
Board of Governors
Harry L. Davis, Ph.D.
- Member, UChicago Argonne, LLC Board of Governors for Argonne National Laboratory
- Roger L. and Rachel M. Goetz Distinguished Service Professor of Creative Management, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago
Harry L. Davis is the Roger L. and Rachel M. Goetz Distinguished Service Professor of Creative Management for the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business (GSB). He has been a member of the GSB faculty since 1963. In addition to his research and teaching in the areas of consumer behavior, marketing management, business strategy, new product development, industrial marketing, leadership, and creativity, he has introduced many innovative executive education programs in the U.S. and abroad including: the first core leadership program of any top-rated MBA program in the country, opening the first international campus of the Chicago GSB in Barcelona, Spain when he was deputy dean for GSB MBA programs, and the Management Lab (The New Product Laboratory).
Davis teaches in the areas of strategy, leadership, and creativity. He is the founder of Chicago GSB's Laboratory in New Product and Strategy Development, in which student teams work with sponsoring firms to research, develop, and market new products. He also is the architect of the Leadership Effectiveness and Development (LEAD) program, a required student-directed course that focuses on the building of community and the development of managerial skills.
Davis has served on several boards of directors in both the public and non-profit sectors; currently he is a trustee and member of the executive committee of the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago, which is a national organization devoted to large-scale social research in the public interest. His scholarly research has appeared in a number of top-tier academic journals, including the Journal of Consumer Research and the Journal of Marketing. Davis received an MBA in marketing from Dartmouth College and an AM in sociology and a PhD in marketing from Northwestern University.
