Harvey Justin Davidson (November 15, 1930 – October 28, 1999)[2] was an engineer, management consultant and American educator, the sixth Dean of the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University and Dean of the Fisher College of Business at Ohio State University.
Davidson was only thirty-eight years old when appointed the sixth dean of Johnson Graduate School of Management and served from 1968 to 1979.
Davidson served as Dean of the Fisher College of Business at Ohio State University from 1979 to 1989.
He died of Alzheimer's disease in Columbus, Ohio on October 28, 1999.
He was born to Harvey H. and Dorothy (Eberhardt) Davidson in Gentryville, Indiana; both were educators and his father coached basketball.