S. Venkataraman
Expertise
- Entrepreneurial Opportunity
- Business Strategy
- Corporate Strategy
- Corporate Venturing
- New Venture Creation and Financing
- Regional Development
- Entrepreneurship Education
- Managing Growth
S. Venkataraman, MasterCard Professor of Business Administration; Research Director, The Batten Institute
M.A., Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India; M.B.A., Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta; Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Office:
288
Phone:
434-924-6892
E-mail:
VenkatS@virginia.edu
Courses
First Year Strategy
First Year Entrepreneurship
Strategy Seminar
First Year Ethics
Ph.D. Program
Seminars in Entrepreneurship
Executive Education Courses
The Executive Program
Management Development Program
Business Resource Management Program
Strategic Thinking and Action
The Strategic CFO
Numerous Custom Program
Biography
Sankaran Venkataraman (“Venkat”) is the MasterCard Professor of Business Administration at the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Virginia. He is a member of the Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Ethics area at Darden and teaches MBA and executive level courses in strategy, entrepreneurship, and ethics. He is an internationally renowned scholar and educator in the field of entrepreneurship. He has published extensively and has lectured around the world. Venkat is a Director of Research at the Batten Institute and has been the editor of the Journal of Business Venturing since 1995. He has earned the “Outstanding Faculty Award” at Darden and was voted the “Most Popular Professor” at Business Week Online based on a poll of Darden students. In 2008, the Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management, the largest professional body of management educators in the world, recognized his research as foundational to the field by awarding him the inaugural IDEA award for Foundational Research.
As a corporate planning executive in a major Indian firm, he was a part of a founding team that created and developed a highly successful new business venture. He consults with Fortune 500 firms as well as several small companies. He facilitates strategy discussion for firms and is advisor to firms, universities and government organizations. He has been a speaker for and advisor to the Entrepreneurial Forum, a program of the International Trade Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce aimed at promoting trade through entrepreneurship around the world. He is a faculty in numerous executive education programs at Darden and the Indian School of Business, and is on the faculty team of The Executive Program.
Venkat was the first holder of the Bruggeman Distinguished Chair at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and, from 1989 to 1995, he was Paul Yeakel Term Assistant Professor of Management at the Wharton School. He received his MA in Economics from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India; his MBA from the Indian Institute of Management (Calcutta); and his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota.