About the Batten Institute - People
About Batten Institute - People - Faculty Fellows
Faculty Fellows
Faculty Fellows
Each year the Batten Institute recognizes a select group of Darden faculty who have demonstrated high-impact in their research and/or teaching in the fields of entrepreneurship, innovation and technology. This prestigious fellowship, which is an element of our support for faculty excellence at Darden, conveys not only the importance of their achievements but also their close affiliation with the Institute.
Batten Faculty Fellows 2025-26
Michael Albert
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Lester F. Alexander III
John Glynn Endowed Professor and Professor of Practice in Business Administration
Raul O. Chao
Oliver Wight Associate Professor of Business Administration
Alex Cowan
Academic General Faculty
Lillien Ellis
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Gregory B. Fairchild
Isidore Horween Professor of Business Administration
Timothy M. Laseter
Professor of Practice
Michael Lenox
Tayloe Murphy Professor of Business Administration; Senior Associate Dean and Chief Strategy Officer
Elena Loutskina
Bank of America Associate Professor of Business Administration
Rory McDonald*
John Tyler Associate Professor of Business Administration
Anthony Palomba
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Chris Parker
Richard S. Reynolds Associate Professorship in Business Administration
Bidhan L. Parmar
Associate Dean for Faculty Development Shannon G. Smith Bicentennial Professor of Business Administration
Roshni Raveendhran
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Saras D. Sarasvathy*
Paul M. Hammaker Professor Professor of Business Administration; Jamuna Raghavan Chair Professor in Entrepreneurship, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore
Sankaran Venkataraman*
MasterCard Professor of Business Administration; Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Research
Rajkumar Venkatesan
Ronald Trzcinski Professor of Business Administration
* = Batten Academic Director
In the Classroom: Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology
View a sample list of courses from the Darden Course Directory with themes centered around entrepreneurship, innovation and tech.
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No. 1
The Economist, 2011–19, 2022
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No. 1
The Economist, 2017–19, 2022; The Princeton Review, 2017–21
Global Public Business School
No. 1
Financial Times, 2024