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Sarasvathy, Saras D

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Sarasvathy, Saras D
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Professor Saras D. Sarasvathy is a member of the Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Ethics area. In addition to MBA and doctoral courses in entrepreneurship at Darden, she teaches in doctoral programs in Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa. In 2007, Sarasvathy was named one of the top 18 entrepreneurship professors by Fortune Small Business magazine. In 2013, Babson College awarded her an honorary doctorate for the impact of her work on entrepreneurship education. Most recently, in recognition of her active engagement with students, Sarasvathy became the 2015 Mead-Colley Honored Faculty from UVA. Universities around the world recognize her contributions to entrepreneurship research and education by awarding her the following professorships: Jamuna Raghavan Chair at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore University Chair from Nankai University in Tianjin, China Jubilee professorship from Chalmers University in Gothenburg, Sweden. A leading scholar on the cognitive basis for high-performance entrepreneurship, Sarasvathy has served on the editorial boards of top management journals and as associate editor of top entrepreneurship journals. Her scholarly work has won several awards, including the 2009 and 2015 Gerald E. Hills Best Paper Awards from the American Marketing Association and the Foundational Paper Award from the Academy of Management in 2017. Her book Effectuation: Elements of Entrepreneurial Expertise was nominated for the 2009 Terry Book Award by the Academy of Management. Effectuation is widely acclaimed as a rigorous framework for understanding the creation and growth of new organizations and markets. The research program based on effectuation involves over a hundred scholars from around the world whose published and working papers can be found at www.effectuation.org. Sarasvathy has also developed several cases and other instructional materials to teach effectuation. Her co-authored textbook Effectual Entrepreneurship won the Gold Medal in the 2012 Axiom Business Book Awards. Sarasvathy serves on the board of Lending Tree(Nasdaq TREE) as well as on advisory boards for academic institutions in Europe and Asia. In addition to a master's degree in industrial administration, Sarasvathy received her Ph.D. in information systems from Carnegie Mellon University. Her thesis on entrepreneurial expertise was supervised by Herbert Simon,1978 Nobel Laureate in Economics. Click here for her SSRN Author Page, her TEDx talk, a video interview with Big Think, a webinar from the World Bank and one from the Academy of Management. © UVA Darden School of Business
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Issue DateTitleSub-TitleAuthor(s)Journal NameVolume NumberIssue NumberPages
12014An effectual approach to international entrepreneurship: overlaps, challenges, and provocative possibilities-Sarasvathy, Saras D ; Kumar, K ; York, Jeffrey G ; Bhagavatula, Suresh Entrepreneurship: Theory and PracticeVol.38Iss.171-93p.
22022Bringing People to the Table in New Ventures: An Effectual Approach-Sarasvathy, Saras ; Botha, Helet Negotiation JournalVol.38Iss.111-34p.
32019Effectuation, network-building and internationalisation speed-Kumar, Kothandaraman ; Bhagavatula, Suresh ; Sarasvathy, Saras D ; Prashantham, Shameen International Small Business Journal: Researching EntrepreneurshipVol.37Iss.13-21p.
42014The downside of entrepreneurial opportunities-Sarasvathy, Saras D Management (France)Vol.17Iss.4305-315p.
52018Uncertainty, knowledge problems, and entrepreneurial action-Townsend, David M ; Hunt, Richard A ; Mcmullen, Jeffery S ; Sarasvathy, Saras D Academy of Management AnnalsVol.12Iss.2659-687p.