Blog Archive Professor Profiles Sankaran Venkataraman, the University of Virginia Darden School of Business

Blog Archive Professor Profiles Sankaran Venkataraman, the University of Virginia Darden School of Business Many MBA applicants feel that they are purchasing a brand when they choose a business school. However, the educational experience you will have is what is crucial to your future, and no one will affect your education more than your professors. Today, we focus on  Sankaran Venkataraman  from the University of Virginia Darden School of Business. Sankaran Venkataramanâ€"who is known around the campus of the University of Virginia’s (UVA’s) Darden School of Business as simply “Venkat”â€"is an internationally recognized expert on entrepreneurship. He is the MasterCard Professor of Business Administration at Darden and the senior associate dean for faculty and research. He has edited the  Journal  of Business Venturing  and consulted with the U.S. Department of Commerce on promoting entrepreneurship globally. He is also a coauthor of  The Innovation Journey  (Oxford University Press, 2008) and coeditor of  Entrepreneurship in Emerging Regions Around the World:  Theory, Evidence and Implications  (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2008). Venkat earned one of Darden’s awards for outstanding faculty in 2008 and is generally considered one of the school’s most popular professors. In 2010, Venkat earned the Academy of Management’s Decade Award for a paper published ten years earlier that was judged to have had the greatest impac t on scholarship in the fields of management and organizations. For more information about UVA Darden and 16 other top-ranked business schools, check out our free  mbaMission Insider’s Guides. Share ThisTweet Professor Profiles University of Virginia (Darden)