Damon Phillips

For the baseball player, see Dee Phillips.

Damon J. Phillips is an American business strategist, entrepreneurship scholar, sociologist, and the Lambert Family Professor of Social Enterprise at Columbia Business School.^[1]

Damon J. Phillips
Occupation(s)	Professor, advisor
Known for	business strategy, labor markets, and entrepreneurship
Spouse	Kathy Phillips
Academic background
Alma mater	Morehouse College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University
Thesis	The promotion paradox: The relationship between firm life chances and employee promotion chances in Silicon Valley law firms, 1946-1996 (1998)
Doctoral advisor	Joel Podolny
Academic work
Discipline	Business
Sub-discipline	Entrepreneurship; Leadership and Ethics
Institutions	Columbia Business School

Career

Phillips graduated from Morehouse College, and holds graduate degrees from MIT and Stanford.^[2] 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, outside of Washington D.C. Because his father was in the military, the family moved several times during Phillips' childhood.

He was married to fellow Columbia Business School professor Kathy Phillips from August 1999 until her death in January 2020.^[3]

Works

• Shaping Jazz, Princeton University Press, 2013. ISBN 9780691150888^[4][5]
• Kahl, Steven; Cusumano, Michael; Silverman, Brian S. (2012-09-03). "Orphaned Jazz: Short-Run Start-Ups and the Long-Run Success of Depression-Era Cultural Products". History and Strategy. Emerald Group Publishing. pp. 315–348. ISBN 978-1-78190-025-3.