Rate My Professor Matthew Higgins

Matthew Higgins serves as the Earl P. and Ethel B. Koerner Chair of Strategy & Entrepreneurship and Professor of Management in the A.B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University, where he also directs the Levy-Rosenblum Institute. In this role, he oversees initiatives to enhance faculty research productivity, develop post-doctoral fellowships, and organize conferences, such as one for a special issue of the Journal of Business Venturing on entrepreneurial interventions. Previously, from 2019 to 2025, he held the Emma Eccles Jones Chair and was Professor of Entrepreneurship & Strategy in the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah, serving as Director of the Sorenson Center for Discovery & Innovation Studies and Chair of the Department of Entrepreneurship & Strategy from 2020 to 2023. During his tenure there, he led curriculum revisions emphasizing quantitative skills and experiential learning, and established a post-doctoral fellowship program. Earlier, he spent 14 years at the Scheller College of Business at the Georgia Institute of Technology, advancing from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of Strategy & Innovation. Higgins earned his PhD in economics from Emory University, a master’s degree in economics from the University of Akron, and bachelor’s degrees in economics and political science from the University of Akron. He is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and an Affiliated Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition.