Dale Murphy

Prof. Dale D. Murphy teaches in the Landegger Program in International Business Diplomacy (IBD), in the Walsh School of Foreign Service (SFS) at Georgetown University. He was the first University-wide Director of Entrepreneurial Programs, starting in 2007, for which he wrote and led a winning $3 million grant proposal to the Kauffman Foundation for Georgetown University. He pioneered the teaching of entrepreneurship within SFS, leading the Colligan-Quinlan Initiative on Entrepreneurship, endowed with $500,000 from two leading SFS alumni in 2002. He innovated the use of video-conferencing between SFS and SFS-Qatar, in a course on social entrepreneurship. He leads the SFS Entrepreneurship Initiative with Citi Ventures, sponsor of the annual $20K Global Impact Pitch Competition (GIPC). His students have gone on to found startups ranging from a billion-dollar 'unicorn', to an award-winning anti-corruption NGO.

Dr. Murphy is an expert in global issues at the juncture of the public and private sectors. His specialties include commercial and social entrepreneurship (with support from the Wallenberg Foundation), and he has worked on international political economy, business-government relations, corporate social responsibility (CSR), business ethics, international relations, democratization and international security.

He has led initiatives on the policies and educational practices that support the growth of entrepreneurs in the Middle East (through Harvard University's Kennedy School affiliate in Dubai), the USA, Europe, Africa, and South Asia. His students have founded successful for-profit and non-profit ventures around the world. Dr. Murphy is Treasurer and founding board member of Global Integrity, founded by a former Startups student, which promotes open and accountable governance worldwide.

Prof. Murphy's doctoral dissertation research examined large firms’ use of regulations as a source of competitive advantage, and the impact of international trade and investment on domestic regulations. His book, "The Structure of Regulatory Competition: Corporations and Public Policies in a Global Economy" (Oxford University Press, 2007) draws on transaction cost economics and theories of political economy to differentiate large firms’ preferences and their influences on public policy, and highlights the implications for CSR.

His current book project, "Public Interests, Private Leaders, and Mass Media" (in progress), analyzes various conceptions of the ‘public interest’ and 'common good,' applying cutting-edge methodologies from experimental economics, psychology, political science, and business. It explores how media technologies have changed the ability of individuals and groups to identify, define, and shape these conceptions.

Before joining Georgetown University, Dr. Murphy was an Assistant Vice President of Citicorp, focusing on bank-government relations, sovereign debt, negotiation strategy, and IMF capitalization. Earlier, he worked on long-term US-Soviet relations and Middle East politics for Secretary of State George Shultz in the Policy Planning Staff at the U.S. Department of State; and on foreign policy issues for various Congressional and Presidential candidates. He was a Teaching Fellow at Harvard University (for Samuel P. Huntington and Joseph Nye), at the Harvard Business School (for James E. Austin), and at MIT. He has consulted for the private sector and World Bank and U.S. AID missions in Africa and Southeast Asia; appeared on CNN and other news shows; and published a variety of peer-reviewed scholarship.