Name: Dr. Patrick Murphy

Description:

"Dr. Murphy is the Goodrich Entrepreneurship Chair, full professor, and founding Director of the Barefield Entrepreneurship Program (BEP) at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Since 2018, the BEP has raised just under $7 Million and, in 2022, was named USA's top emerging university entrepreneurship program by the US Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship. The BEP realized 378% enrollment growth (2020-2024) and is one of UAB's fastest growing programs in terms of impact and fundraising.

Professor Murphy has published extensively in leading scholarly outlets and journals including Harvard Business Review, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Academy of Management Perspectives, Journal of Small Business Management, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, and the International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior and Research. He authored the book Mutiny and Its bounty, published in 2013 by Yale University Press. His 2009 paper, "A model of social entrepreneurial discovery," was ranked by the Journal of Business Ethics in 2021 as #6 in the top 100 most influential articles in the field of social entrepreneurship. His 2006 paper, “A conceptual history of entrepreneurial thought,” was named by Emerald Publishers in 2017 as one of the publisher’s 50 highest-impact papers, across all of its journals, in the last half-century.

Professor Murphy is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, was previously Editor-in-Chief of Management Decision and Chair of the Management History Division of the Academy of Management. He currently serves as the Historian of the Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management. In 2024, Techstars named Dr. Murphy an "all-star mentor" (top 1% among ~5,000) based on founder feedback. In 2017, prior to moving to Alabama, he was named Future Founder’s inaugural “Entrepreneurship Professor of the Year” across all colleges and universities in the state of Illinois. In 2016, he was named to AmericanInno’s “50 on Fire” for impact on Chicago’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. He is former Board President of the Chicago Cultural Alliance and in 2010 he co-founded a training, breeding, and aftercare venture that raced and retired horses in Florida, New York, Kentucky, and other states. He lived in Beijing, China for a year as a student in the 1990s-2000s and speaks the Mandarin Chinese language.