Phillip Phan, PhD

Phillip Phan is Alonzo and Virginia Decker Professor at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School with joint appointments in the Johns Hopkins Medicine Department of Medicine, Whiting School of Engineering Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare, and the Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality.  He is Associate Director at the Johns Hopkins Medicine Institute for Clinical and Translational Research. His research focuses on governance and innovation management in healthcare He has published more than 190 peer-reviewed articles, abstracts, and conference proceedings and is author of 8 books.  He is Editor of the Academy of Management Perspectives, Academic Editor of Medicine® (non-clinical medicine section), and Associate Editor of the Journal of Technology Transfer. He serves on review panels for the National Academies of Sciences, Hong Kong Research Grants Council, National Science Foundation, and Science Foundation Ireland.

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Education

• Ph. D, University of Washington - Seattle
• BBA, Hospitality Management School of Travel Industry Management, University of Hawaii - Manoa

Research

Selected publications

• Lee, Soo-Hoon, Christopher Terndrup, Phillip H. Phan, Sandra Zaeh, Kwame Atsina, Nicole Minkove, Sanjay V. Desai (2019) The Impact of Environmental Context on Intern Sign-Out Quality, Journal of Patient Safety, (Published Ahead-of-Print) 
• Caiazza, Rosa, Albert A. Cannella Jr, Phillip H. Phan, Michele Simoni (2018) An institutional contingency perspective of interlocking directorates, International Journal of Management Reviews, 21(3): 277-293
• Phan, Phillip H., Dean F. Wong (2017). Lost opportunities. Nature, 552 (7683): S18
• Lee, Soo-Hoon, Phillip H. Phan, Todd Dorman, Sallie J. Weaver and Peter J. Pronovost (2016) The relationships between handoffs, patient safety, and patient safety culture perceptions: Evidence from HSOPS, BMC Health Services Research, 16:254 ()
• Walls, Judith, Pascual Berrone, and Phillip H. Phan (2012) Corporate Governance and Environmental Performance: Is There Really a Link? Strategic Management Journal, Vol.33, No.8, pp 885-913 
• Xu, Dean, Changhui Zhou and Phillip H. Phan (2010) A real options perspective on sequential acquisitions in China, Journal of International Business Studies, Vol.41, No1, pp. 166-174 
• Choi, Young-rok and Phillip Phan (2006) The Influences of Economic and Technology Policy on the Dynamics of New Firm Formation. Small Business Economics, 26(5): 493-503 
• Phan, Phillip H., and Hill, Charles W.L., (1995) “Leveraged Buyouts: An Ex-Post Study”, Academy of Management Journal, Vol. 38, No. 3, pp. 704-739

Teaching

Current

• Entrepreneurial Ventures
• Policy and Research Seminar in Healthcare
• Innovation for Humanity
• Commercializing Innovation in Health
• Health Care Overview Bootcamp

Honors and distinctions

• Editor-in-Chief, Academy of Management Perspectives
• Academic Editor, Medicine
• Associate Editor, Journal of Technology Transfer
• Associate Editor, Journal of Family Business Strategy
• Robert Bosch Foundation Public Policy Fellow, The American Academy in Berlin
• The Stephan Schrader Best Paper Award for, "Scientists or entrepreneurs: Rent (mis)appropriation from discoveries made in university labs." Academy of Management, Technology & Innovation Management Division, Philadelphia (2007)
• 23rd Annual Strategic Management Society Conference recipient for the paper "“University Technology Transfer: The Intersection between Strategy, Structure, and Pay and the Link to Licensing Revenues and Firm Creation”, 6th Annual McKinsey/SMS Best Conference Paper  (2003)
• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Trustees' Faculty Service Achievement Award (2002 and 2004) 

Impact and engagement 

Business

Co-founder of: 

• P4 Microbiome Inc., developer of antimicrobials for the gastrointestinal tract
• Pistevo LLC, developer of AI solutions to improve medical billing accuracy
• FKP Consulting LLC, consultancy devoted to vascular and interventional radiology.

Community

• Mentor, A-Level Capital
• Editor, eix.org (Entrepreneurship and Innovation Exchange)

In the media

• Should Billionaires Exist? Radio Times (Nov 19, 2019) WHYY Public Radio Philadelphia 
• Business leadership professors size up Washington Redskins' problems (Nov 23, 2019) WTOP 103.5 FM in Washington D.C.