At the heart of the Batten Institute is a diverse group of affiliated scholars from a range of disciplines at the University of Virginia whose work in accounting, finance, law, marketing, strategy, operations, and management inform our understanding of entrepreneurship and innovation. They are actively engaged in high-impact research endeavors, and their specific areas of focus include entrepreneurial finance, corporate innovation, entrepreneurial strategy, new product innovation, emerging markets, among many others.

Raul O. Chao
Assistant Professor

Susan Chaplinsky
Tipton R. Snavely Professor of Business Administration and Associate Dean for Faculty Scholarship

Gregory B. Fairchild
Associate Professor of Business Administration

Edward D. Hess
Professor of Business Administration and Batten Executive-in-Residence

Andrea Larson
Associate Professor of Business Administration

Michael Lenox
Samuel L. Slover Research Professor of Business; Associate Dean and Executive Director of the Batten Institute

Jeanne Liedtka
Professor of Business Administration

Kamalini Ramdas
Associate Professor of Business Administration

Saras D. Sarasvathy
Associate Professor of Business Administration

Christopher Sprigman
Associate Professor of Law

Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg
Associate Professor

Sankaran Venkataraman
MasterCard Professor of Business Administration; Research Director, Batten Institute