MBA - Area Focus Electives - Strategy, Ethics & Entrepreneurship
Strategy, Ethics & Entrepreneurship
Darden has long been recognized for having one of the best entrepreneurship programs among all graduate business schools, with a curriculum that inspires purpose-driven, entrepreneurial leaders who will improve the world. Today, we offer more than 25 area-focused electives in strategy, ethics, and entrepreneurship related fields.
The academic journal Business & Society recognizes the Darden School of Business as the #1 MBA program in the field of business ethics.
The Honor Code, a venerable tradition at the University of Virginia, provides the foundation for a strong history of ethics. Ethics has been a formal part of the Darden required curriculum for over 20 years, as well as a popular area for several electives.
A full listing of all strategy, ethics, and entrepreneurship courses is available here. For questions about any of these offerings, please contact Bobby Parmar.
In addition to courses, Darden encourages all students to develop their innovative thinking and entrepreneurial capabilities through a wide range of co-curricular programs in entrepreneurship and innovation. These include student clubs, conferences, workshops, boot camps, internships, fellowships, competitions, independent studies, mentorship, and a variety of early-stage venture development opportunities.
For a complete access to all of Darden’s curricular and co-curricular offerings in entrepreneurship, innovation, technology and related fields, please visit the Batten Institute, a center of research and education at Darden dedicated to inspiring purpose-driven entrepreneurial leadership.
Strategy, Ethics & Entrepreneurship Faculty
Lester F. Alexander III
John Glynn Endowed Professor and Professor of Practice in Business Administration
Scott C. Beardsley
Dean and Charles C. Abbott Professor of Business Administration
Ming-Jer Chen
Leslie E. Grayson Professor of Business Administration
Yo-Jud Cheng
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Jacqueline L. Doyle
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Gregory B. Fairchild
Isidore Horween Research Professor of Business Administration; Associate Dean for Washington, D.C., Area Initiatives and Academic Director of Public Policy and Entrepreneurship Dean and CEO of UVA | Northern Virginia
R. Edward Freeman
University Professor; Elis and Signe Olsson Professor of Business Administration; Distinguished Professor of Business Administration
Jared D. Harris
Samuel L. Slover Research Chair and Associate Professor of Business Administration
Young Hou
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Toni Irving
Frank M. Sands Sr. Professor of Practice
Lauren Kaufmann
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Adrian Keevil
Adjunct Assistant Professor; Senior Fellow at Olsson Center
Dennie Kim
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Benjamin D. Leiner
Adjunct Lecturer
Michael Lenox
Tayloe Murphy Professor of Business Administration; Special Advisor for the Dean; Senior Faculty Fellow, UVA Miller Center; Professor of Public Policy (by courtesy), Batten School of Leadership and Public
Rory McDonald
Visiting Associate Professor of Business Administration
Carolyn Miles
John Alden Purinton, Jr. Professor of Practice; Senior Adviser to the Dean; Interim President of the Darden School Foundation
Bidhan L. Parmar
Shannon G. Smith Bicentennial Associate Professor of Business Administration
Vivian Riefberg
Professor of Practice; Walentas Jefferson Scholars Foundation Professorship Chair
Saras Sarasvathy
Paul M. Hammaker Professor in Business Administration; Academic Director, Batten Institute; Jamuna Raghavan Chair Professor in Entrepreneurship, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore
Scott A. Snell
Frank M. Sands Sr. Professor of Business Administration
Wallace Stettinius
Lecturer
Sankaran Venkatraman
MasterCard Professor of Business Administration; Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Research
Andrew C. Wicks
Ruffin Professor of Business Administration; Director, Olsson Center for Applied Ethics; Director, Doctoral Program
Entrepreneurship & Innovation Staff
Omar Garriott
Executive Director and Assistant Professor
MJ Toms
Director of Education and Experiential Learning
Jason Brewster
Director, Ventures
David Touve
Senior Director, Ventures
Sandra McCutcheon
Assistant Director, Ventures
