Strategy, Ethics & Entrepreneurship
The mission of Strategy, Ethics and Entrepreneurship (SEE) is to be educators and thought leaders with impact in strategy, ethics and entrepreneurship and in the integration of the three.
We bring a unique Darden perspective to creating and sustaining value — not only for the firm, but for stakeholders associated with the firm and for the society within which the firm operates.
This holistic view of value creation includes:
- The design of new sources of value creation including new products, new ventures, new markets and even new opportunities
- Sustaining, growing and sharing value over the lifecycle of firms
- Learning to weave together business and society in all value-creating and value-capturing endeavors
SEE area faculty members, through in-depth research and practical experience, seek to integrate powerful theoretical concepts with useful techniques. We try to push students, scholars and managers to rethink taken-for-granted mental models and uncover promising new possibilities.
Topics in and out of the classroom not only cover the basic concepts and issues addressed in most business schools, but also engage Darden's unique perspective in interesting ways.
Strategy
Strategy equips students with the framework, concepts and tools required to think strategically about the total enterprise and lead the creation of new futures. We focus on how to create value for customers, analyze industry structure and identify sources of uniqueness and competitive advantage. To this, Darden adds a unique focus on design thinking, organic growth and sustainability.
Ethics
Ethics enables students to reason about the role of ethics in business in a complex, dynamic and global environment. We emphasize harms and benefits analysis, rights and duties analysis, principles and rules, and moral and institutional leadership. To these, Darden adds our unique depth on stakeholder theory and american pragmatism.
Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship is not just about starting companies but about developing the entrepreneurial mindset: doing more with less as well as doing more with what you have. Key concepts here include idea generation, prototype development, obtaining funding, team building, business planning and risk management. To these, Darden adds entrepreneurial expertise and effectual logic and market-based solutions for social issues.
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
L. J. Bourgeois III
Emeritus Professor of Business Administration
Senior Fellow, Darden Center for Global Initiatives
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
Stephen E. Bachand University Professor of Business Administration
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
Edward D. Hess
Professor Emeritus of Business Administration
Batten Executive-in-Residence Emeritus
Batten Faculty Fellow Emeritus
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
Andrea Larson
Associate Professor Emerita of Business Administration
Ben Leiner
Adjunct Lecturer
Michael Lenox
University Professor
Tayloe Murphy Professor of Business Administration
Jeanne M. Liedtka
United Technologies Corporation Professor Emerita of Business Administration
Rory McDonald
John Tyler Associate Professor of Business Administration
Bidhan L. Parmar
Associate Dean for Faculty Development
Shannon G. Smith Bicentennial Professor of Business Administration
Vivian Riefberg
Professor of Practice
Walentas Jefferson Scholars Foundation Professorship Chair
John Rosenblum
Dean Emeritus at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business
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
Scott A. Snell
Eleanor F. and Phillip G. Rust Professor of Business Administration
Wallace Stettinius
Lecturer
Sankaran Venkataraman
MasterCard Professor of Business Administration
Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Research
