{"id":29775,"date":"2021-11-13T10:00:59","date_gmt":"2021-11-13T15:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/?p=29775"},"modified":"2022-01-30T04:28:16","modified_gmt":"2022-01-30T09:28:16","slug":"professor-profiles-sankaran-venkataraman-uvas-darden-school-of-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/professor-profiles-sankaran-venkataraman-uvas-darden-school-of-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Profiles: Sankaran Venkataraman, University of Virginia Darden School of Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Sankaran-Venkataraman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-10531 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Sankaran-Venkataraman.jpg\" alt=\"Sankaran Venkataraman, UVA's Darden School of Business Administration\" width=\"190\" height=\"153\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>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<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.darden.virginia.edu\/faculty-research\/directory\/s-venkataraman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><em>Sankaran Venkataraman<\/em><\/strong><\/a><em>\u00a0from the University of Virginia Darden School of Business.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sankaran Venkataraman<\/strong>\u2014who is known around the campus of the University of Virginia\u2019s (UVA\u2019s) Darden School of Business as simply \u201cVenkat\u201d\u2014is an internationally recognized expert on entrepreneurship. Venkat is the MasterCard Professor of Business Administration at Darden and the senior associate dean for faculty and research, and he teaches courses in the full-time MBA and executive MBA programs\u2014including first-year courses in entrepreneurship, strategy, and ethics.<\/p>\n<p>Venkat has edited the\u00a0<em>Journal<\/em>\u00a0<em>of Business Venturing\u00a0<\/em>and consulted with the U.S. Department of Commerce on promoting entrepreneurship globally. He is also a coauthor of\u00a0<em>The Innovation Journey\u00a0<\/em>(Oxford University Press, 2008) and coeditor of\u00a0<em>Entrepreneurship in Emerging Regions Around the World:<\/em>\u00a0<em>Theory, Evidence and Implications<\/em> (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2008).<\/p>\n<p>Venkat earned one of Darden\u2019s awards for outstanding faculty in 2008 and is generally considered one of the school\u2019s most popular professors. In 2010, he earned the Academy of Management\u2019s Decade Award for a paper published ten years earlier that was judged to have had the greatest impact on scholarship in the fields of management and organizations.<\/p>\n<p><em>For more information about UVA Darden and 16 other top-ranked business schools, check out our free\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.mbamission.com\/collections\/insider-s-guides\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><em>mbaMission Insider\u2019s Guides<\/em><\/strong><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u00a0Sankaran Venkataraman\u00a0from the University of Virginia Darden School of Business. 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