Damon J. Phillips is an American business strategist, entrepreneurship scholar, sociologist, and the Lambert Family Professor of Social Enterprise at

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Career

Phillips graduated from

Morehouse College , mottoeng = And there was light (literal translation of Latin itself translated from Hebrew: "And light was made") , type = Private historically black men's liberal arts college , academic_affiliations ...

, and holds graduate degrees from MIT and

Stanford Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is considere ...

. Before academia, he worked at a family electronics manufacturing firm, which fueled his interest in business. From 1998 to 2011, he was professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Biography

Phillips was born on

Andrews Air Force Base Andrews Air Force Base (Andrews AFB, AAFB) is the airfield portion of Joint Base Andrews, which is under the jurisdiction of the United States Air Force. In 2009, Andrews Air Force Base merged with Naval Air Facility Washington to form Joint B ...

, outside of Washington D.C. His father was in the military, and due to this their family moved several times during Phillips' childhood. He was married to fellow

professor, Dr. Kathy Phillips, from August 1999 until her death in January 2020. They have two children.

Works

* ''Shaping Jazz,'' Princeton University Press, 2013. *

References

External links

*https://press.princeton.edu/our-authors/phillips-damon-j *https://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/cbs-directory/detail/dp2588 Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Morehouse College alumni People from Prince George's County, Maryland Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni {{Business-bio-stub