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Learn about upcoming events with Professor Saras Sarasvathy.

Featured Event

Reimagining Entrepreneurship Education Workshop

 

Reimagining Entrepreneurship Education
11 October 2024, Charlottesville, VA

The Batten Institute for Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology is thrilled to host an intimate gathering of entrepreneurship educators at UVA Darden School of Business. Join us for a unique opportunity to explore innovative approaches to teaching entrepreneurship to improve student outcomes. 

This is an invite-only event. To learn more contact Gosia Glinska, at [email protected]

  • Agenda

    AGENDA

    10:30 a.m. — 11 a.m. Light Breakfast, Outside Classroom 130

    11 a.m. — 1 p.m. Exploring Control as Strategy for Dealing with Uncertainty, Classroom 130

    Participants introduce themselves and share their approaches to teaching entrepreneurship. Professor Sarasvathy gives an overview of effectuation, a logic of entrepreneurial expertise that eschews prediction in favor of non-predictive control. She demonstrates how both novice and experienced entrepreneurs can use effectuation in the highly unpredictable start-up phase of a venture to reduce failure costs for the entrepreneur.

    1 p.m.— 2:30 p.m. Lunch, Private Rooms 4 & 5 at the Abbott Center

    2:30 p.m.— 3:30 p.m. Breakout Sessions with Facilitated Discussions, the i.Lab

    Participants explore how effectuation could be useful in their learning environments and where it fits with Lean Startup and other methodologies.

    3:30 p.m.— 5:00 p.m. Debrief and Future Engagement Opportunities, Classroom 130

    Participants share their learnings from small-group discussions and explore opportunities for future engagement.

    5:30 p.m.—8 p.m. Reception & Dinner, Oak Boardroom at the Forum Hotel

    A map of UVA Darden grounds where the event will be held and driving directions can be found here.

  • New to Effectuation?

    New to effectuation? Check out the 29 April episode of the Hidden Brain podcast, “Innovation 2.0: How Big Ideas Are Born, in which Professor Sarasvathy discusses the logic of entrepreneurial expertise that eschews prediction in favor of non-predictive control with Hidden Brain’s host Shankar Vedantam.

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Registered Participants

Ruwan

Ruwan Abeysekera

Professor, Department of Finance, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka

Acikdilli

Gaye Acikdilli

Associate Professor, Department of Management, Marketing & Public Administration, Bowie State University

Aronson

Olivia Aronson

Associate Professor of Management, Robins School of Business, University of Richmond

Beck

Joshua Beck

Assistant Professor, Shepherd University

Bolger

Wendy Bolger

Founding Director, Simon Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Loyola University Maryland

Qifan Chen

Qifan Chen

Assistant Professor of Management, College of Business and Economics, Longwood University

Larry Clay, Jr.

Larry Clay, Jr.

Assistant Professor of Business, College of Business, Innovation, Leadership and Technology, Marymount University

Coombs

Joseph Coombs

Department Chair and Associate Professor, Management and Entrepreneurship, the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Business

Birton Cowden

Birton Cowden

Associate Professor and Academic Director, Robin and Doug Shore Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center, Michael A. Leven School of Management, Entrepreneurship and Hospitality, Kennesaw State University

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Vincent DiFelice

Senior Instructor of Entrepreneruship and the Faculty Director of Venture Support, the Alfred Lerner College of Business & Economics, University of Delaware

Dolence

Jacob Dolence

Director, Educational Innovation and Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and Honors Scholar, Longwood University

William Donaldson

William Donaldson

Associate Professor in Management, Director, Biotechnology and Management Program, Christopher Newport University

Dovel

James Dovel

Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Shepherd University

Ducharme

Johann Ducharme

Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship, the Alfred Lerner College of Business & Economics, University of Delaware

Laura Gasiorowski

Laura Gasiorowski

Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship, the Alfred Lerner College of Business & Economics, University of Delaware

Gilad

Shye Gilad

Professor of The Practice, Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business

Fatima Hamdulay

Fatima Hamdulay

Assistant Teaching Professor of Leadership and Character in Entrepreneurship, Wake Forest University’s Center for Entrepreneurship

Susan Harmeling

Susan Harmeling

Professor of Inclusive Global Leadership and Entrepreneurship at Thunderbird School of Global Management, Arizona State University

Indu Khurana

Indu Khurana

Associate Professor of Economics and Business, Hampden-Sydney College

Kopman

Daniel Kopman

Professorial Lecturer, Kogod School of Business, American University

Jay Markiewicz

Jay Markiewicz

Assistant Professor, Executive Director of Entrepreneurship Programs, the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Business

Marquart

Adam Marquardt

Associate Professor of Marketing, Robins School of Business, University of Richmond

heatherc

Heather E. Millar

Adjunct Faculty, Da Vinci Center for Innovation, Virginia Commonwealth University

Moschella

Salvatore Moschella

Associate Professor of Business, Piedmont Virginia Community College

Nerkar

Atul Nerkar

Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship and Allred Distinguished Scholar, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School

Poff

Ron Poff

Associate Professor of Practice and Interim Director, Business Leadership Center, Pamplin College of Business, Virginia Tech

Stephanie Raible

Stephanie Raible

Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship, the Alfred Lerner College of Business & Economics, University of Delaware

Reid

Jeff Reid

Founding Director of the Georgetown Entrepreneurship Initiative & Professor of the Practice of Entrepreneurship McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University

Tomé Guerreiro Salgueiro

Tomé Guerreiro Salgueiro

Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship, the Alfred Lerner College of Business & Economics, University of Delaware

Sheilds

Yolanda Shields

Founder and CEO, YES Builds and Adjunct Lecturer, Shenandoah University

slagel

Koehler Slagel

Assistant Professor of Practice, Pamplin College of Business, Virginia Tech

Tucker

Hannah Tucker

Assistant Professor of History, the Department of Business Humanities & Law, the Copenhagen Business School

Wade-Benzoni

Kimberly Wade-Benzoni

Professor of Management & Organizations and Center of Leadership and Ethics Scholar, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University

Wadhwani

Dan Wadhwani

Jill Brooks-Garnett Teaching Chair in Entrepreneurship and Professor of Clinical Entrepreneurship, USC Marshall School of Business

Wolfe

James Wolfe

Associate Professor of Management and Entrepreneur in Residence, George Mason University

Yang

Jennifer Yang

Assistant Professor, College of Business, Marymount University