Gregory B. Fairchild

Gregory B. Fairchild, Executive Director of the Tayloe Murphy Center and Associate Professor of Business Administration

  • BS, Virginia Commonwealth University; MBA, University of Virginia; MPhil, PhD, Columbia University
Office: FOB 185
Phone: +1-434-243-8879
E-mail: FairchildG@darden.virginia.edu

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    MBA Courses

    Entrepreneurial Thinking
    Strategic Management
    Entrepreneur As Change Agent
    Business Ethics Thru Literature

    Biography

    Gregory Fairchild is Executive Director of the Tayloe Murphy Center and Associate Professor of Business Administration at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. He teaches strategic management, entrepreneurship and ethics in Darden’s MBA and Executive Education programs. He has received a number of awards for teaching excellence at the Darden School.

    His research is likewise renowned, as he was recently the lead investigator studying business models and public policy issues in the field of community development finance, an initiative supported by a three-year $850,000 grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Fairchild was named one of five high impact research professors, and the sole scholar focused in entrepreneurship by the Financial Times (January 2010).  In 2009, he received a faculty Pioneer Award presented by the Aspen Institute’s Center for Business Education for his leadership and risk taking in integrating ethical, environmental and social issues into the MBA curriculum. In 2011, he was the only academic named as one of "25 Virginians to watch" by Virginia Business Magazine.  His multidisciplinary work has been cited by Inc. Magazine, The Economist, National Public Radio, New York Times and the Washington Post, among others. 

    Fairchild worked in marketing positions for such industry leaders as Kraft General Foods, Procter & Gamble and Saks Fifth Avenue before embarking on his doctoral studies. Fairchild serves on the Virginia Retirement Service (VRS), the Commonwealth's public pension fund.  In addition to his teaching and research, he is a consultant to corporations, nonprofits and governmental agencies.  

    Expertise

    Entrepreneurship
    Business Strategy
    Business Ethics
    Leadership

    Featured Video

    Professor Fairchild on Ethics at Darden

    Darden faculty and administration highlight some of the ways they incorporate business ethics into their specialty areas across the Darden enterprise and not just in the core ethics classes. In this video, we hear from Professor Greg Fairchild of Darden's Entrepreneurship faculty.