Damon Phillips
Adjunct Senior Research Scholar in the Faculty of Business
Management Division
B.S., Morehouse College; S.M., MIT; Ph.D., Stanford University
Joined CBS in 2011
Phone:
212-854-8546
E-mail:
[email protected]
Fax:
212-854-3778
Curriculum Vitae
Biography
Damon J. Phillips is an adjunct senior research scholar and the former Lambert Family Professor of Social Enterprise. He received his PhD from Stanford University. Before joining Columbia in 2011, he was on the faculty of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business (from 1998-2011). During the 2010-2011 academic year he was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.
Professor Phillips has expertise in social structural approaches to labor and product markets, entrepreneurship, innovation, organizational strategy and structure, as well as social network theory and analysis. His industry specialties are markets for professional services (law, consulting, investment banking) and culture (music industry). His 2013 acclaimed book, "Shaping Jazz," is an innovative study of the emergence and evolution of the market for recorded jazz.
In addition to publishing in top journals within management and sociology, Professor Phillips has been on the editorial board of the Administrative Science Quarterly, an Associate Editor with Management Science, and was a Consulting Editor at the American Journal of Sociology.
Professor Phillips is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate from Morehouse College with a bachelor's degree in physics. He earned his first master's degree in aeronautics and astronautics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He earned a second master's degree in sociology from Stanford University. Before pursuing his PhD at Stanford, he worked as an engineer and researcher affiliated with the U.S. Air Force (Lincoln Labs, MA) and was an executive in a family-owned electronics manufacturing business. He enjoys spending time with his two daughters, learning to play instruments, and listening to music.
Areas of Expertise: The Sociology of Labor Markets and Professional Careers, Social Networks, Managing Innovation, Creativity, and Change Entrepreneurial Management.
Teaching
Spring 2021
ReEntry Acceleration Program (REAP) Immersion
(MBA)
REAP: Reforming Mass Incarceration and the Role of Business
(MBA)
Fall 2021
REAP: Reforming Mass Incarceration and the Role of Business
(MBA)
Fall 2020
Foundations of Entrepreneurship
(MBA)
REAP: Reforming Mass Incarceration and the Role of Business
(MBA)
Fall 2019
REAP: Reforming Mass Incarceration and the Role of Business
(MBA)
Fall 2018
Foundations of Entrepreneurship
(MBA)
REAP: Reforming Mass Incarceration and the Role of Business
(MBA)
Columbia Caseworks cases
The Business Model Canvas - A Useful Tool
(2019)
Coauthor(s): Sandra Navalli, Damon Phillips
Leading the Social Venture Start-up: An Operational Crisis at Pigeonly
(2022)
Coauthor(s): Damon Phillips
Marissa Mayer at Yahoo!
(2014)
Coauthor(s): Damon Phillips, Ashley Martin
DateMySchool 2012: A Venture in Transition
(2013)
Coauthor(s): Damon Phillips
Morgan Stanley: The Challenge of Change In a Post-Crisis World
(2012)
Coauthor(s): Damon Phillips
In The Media
An Open Letter on the COVID-19 Crisis to Young Social Science Scholars
How to Become a C.E.O.? The Quickest Path Is a Winding One
Ten Socially Responsible Startups That Are Changing the Way New York Does Business
Social Responsibility Feeds Chipotle Profits
Awards And Honors
2010 - 2011 CASBS (for Class of 2010-2011)
2008 - 2011
2008 - 2011