Professor Larry McCarthy

Larry McCarthy was born in Cork, Ireland.  He holds Ph.D. in Sport Management from The Ohio State University.   He teaches in the Department of Management at the W. Paul Stillman School of Business at Seton Hall University where he is attached to the Center for Sport Management.   Previously, he was the Graduate Sport Management Program coordinator in the Department of Recreation & Sport Management at Georgia Southern University.  He holds an M.A. in Sport and Fitness Management from New York University and a B.Ed. in Physical Education and Social and Environmental Studies from the National University of Ireland.  He is a Faculty Fellow of the Institute of International Business. 

His research interests focus on the activities of professional sport franchises, cross cultural studies and on sport in Ireland.  He has published research articles in national and international journals and has presented his work at regional, national and international conferences.  He co-authored, with Professors Richard Irwin and Bill Sutton, the text Sport Promotion and Sales Management.  He was appointed by The Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games as an Olympic Envoy to the Olympic Council of Ireland for the Centennial Olympic Games.  He is secretary/treasurer of the Sport Marketing Association.  He is married to Barbara and they have two children, Conor and Shane.