Gregory Fairchild

Moving Towards Plurality: Emerging Domestic Markets in America and What They Mean for Business and Governments
October 18, 2006
Richomond, VA

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About the speaker

Gregory B. Fairchild
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Darden Graduate School of Business

Fairchild is an Assistant Professor teaching in the Strategy, Ethics and Entrepreneurship area at Darden. His primary teaching responsibilities involve the 2nd Year Introduction to Entrepreneurship elective, and 1st Year Strategy. Professor Fairchild’s research interests are focused in the field of entrepreneurship, and fall into two domains. First, he is working to increase our understanding of the role entrepreneur’s play in spurring economic development, both in the domestic frame and abroad. Second, he is interested in the role “knowledge entrepreneurs” play in the creation, spread, use and rejection of innovative techniques for managing organizations and their employees.

Fairchild’s research has been published in academic journals and books, and he is the recipient of the Academy of Management’s Best Paper Award, Best Paper Proceeding (twice), and the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City’s National Business School Network Best Paper Award for his research.

Fairchild is a frequently-quoted expert on social and economic trends, venture investing, and minority business. He has been quoted in leading national and regional publications, including USA Today, Financial Times, American Demographics, the Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor. Professor Fairchild was recently selected by Inc. Magazine to participate in the Inc. Executive Education series. Fairchild was one of six faculty chosen from leading business schools to offer executive training for entrepreneurs around the country. Fairchild’s sessions will focus on entrepreneurial strategy and financing.

Prior to joining the Darden faculty, Fairchild was an instructor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business, where he taught the well-received Inner-City Consulting Course. The course paired Columbia MBA students with Harlem businesses to work on strategic consulting projects. Prior to pursuing an academic career, Fairchild worked as a Brand Manager for Procter & Gamble and Kraft General Foods, and Saks Fifth Avenue. He holds a B.S. from Virginia Commonwealth University, an MBA from the Darden School, and a M. Phil and Ph. D. from Columbia University.

He holds a B.S. from Virginia Commonwealth University, an MBA from the Darden School, and a M. Phil and Ph. D. from Columbia University.

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