David is executive in residence at Babson College and the director of Babson College Case Publishing in Wellesley, Massachusetts. Before joining Babson College in 1996, he wrote cases and teaching materials at IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland, at the Harvard Business School, and for a number of corporate clients. He received his BA from Harvard in 1969 and his MBA from the Harvard Business School in 1984.
He has written over 60 cases and teaching notes, and his field research has taken him across the United States and to Chile, Russia, Korea, the Czech Republic, Hong Kong, China, Japan, India, Italy, and Mexico.
He has delivered seminars in case writing to over 1,020 participants in seven countries, including the University of St. Petersburg, Babson College, Otterbein College, the Harvard Business School, Stockholm University, the North American Case Research Association (NACRA) annual conferences, WACRA conferences, the Southeast Case Research Association (SECRA), the Academy of Management, and the Norwegian School of Management.
He has served on the board of directors of NACRA and is a reviewer for the Case Research Journal, The Asian Journal of Management Cases, and the International Journal of Case Method Research & Application. He also served on the WACRA committee on Case Standards Setting with a mandate to promote case method research as scholarship and to develop standards of excellence in case method research and application.
He served as local arrangements chair at the 2005 NACRA conference where he achieved the nick-name of "Mr. Fun." While he is doing his best to shed this moniker, it nevertheless seems to be sticking. He spends much of his free time in Vinalhaven Maine, where he boats and photographs. Here is a picture from the summer of 2005:
