Wallace B. Donham

Wallace Brett Donham (1877–1954) was an American legal scholar, banking executive, and foundational corporate leader who served as an organizing trustee and guiding early president of the Massachusetts Employees Insurance Association (later Liberty Mutual). A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, Donham was instrumental in translating progressive Massachusetts workplace safety legislation into an employer-owned mutual cooperative governed by scientific loss prevention principles. Donham later achieved international prominence as the transformative second Dean of Harvard Business School (1919–1942), where he pioneered the Case Method of business education and championed ethical corporate management.