Michael H. Morris

Michael H. Morris is Professor of Entrepreneurship & Social Innovation at the University of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs. He previously served as the George and Lisa Etheridge Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Florida, and has held entrepreneurship chairs at Oklahoma State University and Syracuse University. The entrepreneurship programs he helped build at three universities have been ranked in the top ten nationally and received global recognition for excellence. Dr. Morris is a pioneer in curricular innovation and experiential learning. His outreach efforts have facilitated development of thousands of ventures, and he has started three ventures of his own. Professor Morris directs the Experiential Classroom, which shares best practices in entrepreneurship education with faculty from around the world. He also works to bring entrepreneurship empowerment to those operating under conditions of adversity. He has helped launched poverty and entrepreneurship initiatives in six U.S. cities, created the National Disabled Veterans Entrepreneurship Program, coordinates the Global Partnership for Poverty and Entrepreneurship, and annually leads the Entrepreneurship Empowerment in South Africa Program. He has authored 18 books and published over 150 scholarly journal articles. He co-edits the Prentice-Hall Entrepreneurship Series, and is editor of the Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship. His current research focuses on poverty and entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial emergence, differences in venture types, and social innovation. Dr. Morris is a Past President of the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE). He has been awarded the Edwin & Gloria Appel Prize for contributions to entrepreneurship, the Academy of Management’s Dedication to Entrepreneurship Award, the Leavey Award from the Freedoms Foundation for impacting private enterprise education, and the Oberwager Prize from Syracuse University for affecting students beyond the classroom. He received the Max Wortman Lifetime Achievement in Entrepreneurship Award in 2025. He is a former Fulbright Scholar, and earned his Ph.D. in marketing from Virginia Tech in 1983.

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