Batten Institute
Batten Institute - Faculty
Academic Advisors and Faculty Fellows
Academic Directors
The Batten Institute has three academic directors who work with the institute's leadership to develop our programs and thought leadership.
Rory McDonald
John Tyler Associate Professor of Business Administration
Saras D. Sarasvathy
Paul M. Hammaker Professor in Business Administration Academic Director, Batten Institute 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
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 2023-24
Rustam Abuzov
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
Gregory B. Fairchild
Isidore Horween Professor of Business Administration
Anton Korinek
Professor of Economics, Department of Economics; Professor, Darden School of Business
Michael Lenox
Tayloe Murphy Professor of Business Administration; Senior Associate Dean and Chief Strategy Officer
Jeanne M. Liedtka
United Technologies Corporation Professor of Business Administration
Elena Loutskina
Bank of America Associate 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
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.
Link: /about/#courses