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

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.

Phillips was born on Andrews Air Force Base, 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 Columbia Business School professor, Dr. Kathy Phillips, from August 1999 until her death in January 2020.^[3] They have two children.

• 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.