Damon Phillips
Adjunct Senior Research Scholar in the Faculty of Business
Management
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
Research
Journal articles
The Specialist Discount: Negative Returns for MBAs with Focused Profiles in Investment Banking
In Administrative Science Quarterly
(2016)
Coauthor(s): J. Merluzzi, Damon Phillips
Betrayal as Market Barrier: Identity-Based Limits to Diversification among High-Status Corporate Law Firms.
In <a href="http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/journals/journal/ajs.html">American Journal of Sociology</a>
(2013)
Coauthor(s): Damon Phillips, C.J. Turco, Ezra Zuckerman
Jazz and the Disconnected: City Structural Disconnectedness and the Emergence of a Jazz Canon, 1897–1933
In <a href="http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=amerjsoci&">American Journal of Sociology</a>
(2011)
Coauthor(s): Damon Phillips
Competence and commitment: Employer size and entrepreneurial endurance
In Industrial and Corporate Change
(2011)
Coauthor(s): Jesper Sorensen, Damon Phillips
Identity sequences and the early adoption pattern of a jazz canon, 1920–1929
In Research in the Sociology of Organizations
(2010)
Coauthor(s): Steven Kahl, Young-Kyu Kim, Damon Phillips
Why Pseudonyms? Deception as Identity Preservation Among Jazz Record Companies, 1920–1929
In Organization Science
(2009)
Coauthor(s): Damon Phillips, Young-Kyu Kim
Organizational Genealogies and the Persistence of Gender Inequality: The Case of Silicon Valley Law Firms
In Administrative Science Quarterly
(2005)
Coauthor(s): Damon Phillips
Interorganizational Determinants of Promotion: Client Leadership and the Attainment of Women Attorneys
In American Sociological Review
(2005)
Coauthor(s): Christine Beckman, Damon Phillips
Incumbents, innovation, and competence: The emergence of recorded jazz, 1920 to 1929
In Poetics
(2004)
Coauthor(s): Damon Phillips, David Owens
A Genealogical Approach to Organizational Life Chances: The Parent-Progeny Transfer among Silicon Valley Law Firms, 1946–1996
In Administrative Science Quarterly
(2002)
Coauthor(s): Damon Phillips
Middle-Status Conformity: Theoretical Restatement and Empirical Demonstration in Two Markets
In American Journal of Sociology
(2001)
Coauthor(s): Damon Phillips, Ezra Zuckerman
The Promotion Paradox: Organizational Mortality and Employee Promotion Chances in Silicon Valley Law Firms, 1946–1996
In <a href="http://www.jstor.org/page/journal/amerjsoci/about.html">American Journal of Sociology</a>
(2001)
Coauthor(s): Damon Phillips
The Dynamics of Organizational Status
In Industrial and Corporate Change
(1996)
Coauthor(s): Joel Podolny, Damon Phillips
Books
Shaping Jazz: Cities, Labels, and the Global Emergence of an Art Form
(2013)
Coauthor(s): Damon Phillips
Chapters
Creating Reality: How Seemingly Small Changes in Subjective Mindset Produce Objective Changes in Health, Performance, and Behavior
In Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences
(2015)
Coauthor(s): Damon Phillips
Self-Fulfilling Prophesies, Placebo Effects, and the Social-Psychological Creation of Reality
In Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences
(2015)
Coauthor(s): Damon Phillips
Orphaned Jazz: Short-Lived Startups and the Long-Run Success of Depression-Era Cultural Products
In History and Strategy, vol. 29 of Advances in Strategic Management
(2012)
Coauthor(s): Damon Phillips
Working papers
It's Just Water? The Effect of Mindset and Shared Reality on the Physical, Psychological and Performance Effects of Water
(2013)
Coauthor(s): Damon Phillips, E. Tory Higgins
Ideas and Insights
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