Columbia Business School professor Damon Phillips, has been named the co-director of the School’s Tamer Center for Social Enterprise. Professor Phillips is the James P. Gorman Professor of Business at the school. Professor Phillips will serve alongside Bruce Usher, Executive in Residence and adjunct professor of finance and economics.
As co-director of the Tamer Center, Phillips will lead research and curriculum, as well as develop connections and support for the Center. Professor Usher will retain primary responsibility for working with the Tamer Center advisory board and the School’s External Relations group, networking and providing support for the Tamer Center, advising students, leading event programming and providing general administrative oversight. Professors Phillips and Usher will jointly design and implement program strategy.
As a professor at Columbia, Phillips has taught Organizational Change, a course in the MBA program. The course focuses on how organizations change and how to be an agent of change within a company. He has also taught Introduction to Venturing, a course that focuses on entrepreneurship. Phillips has been a part of Columbia’s Management Division since 2011. Before Columbia, was the Jeffrey Breakenridge Keller Professor of Organizations and Strategy at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
The Tamer Center for Social Enterprise serves as the strategic hub for all social enterprise and social entrepreneurship activities at Columbia. The Center was made possible through an endowment gift from Sandra and Tony Tamer. The Center’s goal is to develop a new generation of business leaders who understand how management can contribute to, enhance and impact society and the environment.