Dr. Michael H. Morris Witting Chair in Entrepreneurship School of Management, Syracuse University
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Dr. Morris holds the Witting Chair in Entrepreneurship at Syracuse University. He previously served as the Noborikawa Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Hawaii and the Cintas Chair in Entrepreneurship at Miami University. During his tenure at Miami, the program was selected as the National Model Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Program. He has also served as Gordon Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Cape Town in South Africa, where he created the Supporting Emerging Enterprises Program. In addition, he has been a principal in three entrepreneurial start-ups. Professor Morris received his Ph.D. in marketing from Virginia Tech in 1983. He has published four books and authored over 100 articles. Dr. Morris is a former Fulbright Scholar (South Africa, 1993). He has served as Chair of the AMA's Task Force on the Marketing and Entrepreneurship Interface and is currently the editor of the Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship. He has received recognition for his teaching and research, and was twice honored by Pi Sigma Epsilon as national Faculty Advisor of the Year. Dr. Morris was recently inducted as a "21st Century Entrepreneurship Research Fellow" and has received the Edwin and Gloria Appel Prize for contributions to the field of entrepreneurship. |