Chart Your Venture

What’s your entrepreneurial path? Entrepreneurship expert Professor Michael Morris breaks down four venture types (survival, lifestyle, managed, and aggressive) and provides actionable steps for your journey. Learn from real-world examples and gain insights to chart your venture course.

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Michael H. Morris is a Professor of the Practice who specializes in entrepreneurship and social innovation. He holds a joint faculty appointment with the Pulte Institute for Global Development and the McKenna Center for Human Development and Global Business, both of which are integral parts of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs.

A pioneer in curricular innovation and experiential learning, he has built three university entrepreneurship programs that have been ranked in the top 10 in the United States and earned global recognition for excellence. Morris also is the founder and director of the Experiential Classroom, a clinic that shares best practices in entrepreneurship education with faculty from around the globe.

Morris has worked to bring entrepreneurship empowerment to those operating under conditions of adversity; a commitment that is reflected in his research, teaching, and community engagement efforts. He has launched major poverty initiatives in Syracuse, New York, and Gainesville, Florida; designed a magnet program in entrepreneurship at an underserved high school in Tulsa, Oklahoma; created the National Disabled Veterans Entrepreneurship Program; and annually coordinates the Entrepreneurship and Empowerment in South Africa (EESA) Program.

Throughout his career, Morris has authored 13 books, 24 book chapters, and more than 130 articles in peer-reviewed journals. He co-edits the Prentice-Hall Entrepreneurship Series and is editor emeritus of the Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship.

Morris is a past president of the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE), which recognized him as Entrepreneurship Educator of the Year in 2012. Additionally, he is a recipient of the Edwin M. and Gloria W. Appel Entrepreneurship in Education Prize, the Academy of Management’s Dedication to Entrepreneurship Award, and the Freedoms Foundation’s Leavey Award, all for his contributions to entrepreneurship and education.

Morris is a former Fulbright Scholar and earned his Ph.D. in marketing from Virginia Tech in 1983.