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Batten Fellows Program

The Batten Fellows Program brings prominent thought and education leaders and high-potential young professionals to The Darden School. Fellows engage with the community and collaborate with Darden and University of Virginia faculty on Batten mission focused projects to contribute to knowledge on entrepreneurship and corporate innovation.

Batten Fellows Chronological List / Alphabetical List


2008 Appointments

John D. Helferich
Focus: Design Strategies for Retail Customization


2007 Appointments

Ingmar Leliveld
Focus: Customer Collaboration in Organic Growth Strategies

Veronica Warnock
Focus: Markets in Human Hope

Danny Miller
Focus: Innovation in Strategy Practices and Pedagogy


2006 Appointments

Robert Friedel
Focus: Creativity Through Collaborative Endeavors

Joel Makower
Focus: The Business Case for Sustainability


2005 Appointments

Barie Carmichael
Focus: Inherent Negatives as a Basis for Strategic Innovation

Robert H. Rosen
Focus: Leading Organic Growth

Malcolm Gladwell
Focus: The Business Implications of Blink

Robert Wiltbank
Focus: Leading Organic Growth


2004 Appointments

Joel Brockner
Focus: The Implications of Crisis Management for Corporate Innovation, Creativity, and Change

Gerd Gigerenzer
Focus: Consumer Responses to Product Innovation

Ronald L. Kerber
Focus: Corporate Product Creation

David E. Martin
Focus: The Accounting and Financial Effects of Intellectual Property

Brian F. Nattrass
Focus: Values-Driven Innovation and Sustainable Business Practices

Reinhard Selten
Focus: Consumer Responses to Product Innovation

Charles "Chic" Thompson
Focus: Creative Leadership

Robert L. Cross
Focus: Social Network Analysis

Rolf Hüppi
Focus: Capitalizing on Intangibles in Global Strategic Management

Mark P. Kritzman
Focus: Required Returns on Equity Across Countries and Models

Michael Meyer
Focus: Developing Insight and Inspiring Innovation

Mary Altomare Nattrass
Focus: Values-Driven Innovation and Sustainable Business Practices

Walt Shill
Focus: Testing Personal Managerial Principles Through Business Simulation


2003 Appointments

Vihang R. Errunza
Focus: Managerial Ownership, Firm Value, and Growth

Donald C. Hambrick
Focus: Strategy and Economic Rationality

Michael C. Jensen
Focus: The Agency Costs of Overvalued Equity

Henry Mintzberg
Focus: Designing Strategy, Designing Global Management Education

Larry L. Smith
Focus: Crisis Leadership

Paul Junger Witt
Focus: Innovation and the Business of Film

James H. Gilmore
Focus: Creation, Customization, and Commercialization in the Experience Economy

Lutz Hildebrandt
Focus: Driving Innovation Through Marketing and R&D Synergies

Pedro Medina
Focus: The Economic and Social Impact of Entrepreneurship Education

Carl Schramm
Focus: Technology Transfer and the Role of the Entrepreneur

Howard H. Stevenson
Focus: Insights on Global Entrepreneurship: Education, Policy and Practice

Sonia Wong
Focus: The Development of China’s Stock Market


2002 Appointments

Arthur P. Brief
Focus: Demographically Diverse Work Environments

John Seely Brown
Focus: Learning in the Innovation Process

Marcia Conner
Focus: Creating a Learning Culture

Jerry Goodstein
Focus: Values-Based Strategies for Building Stakeholder-Firm Commitment and Enhancing Organizational Performance

John May
Focus: Angel Investors Program

Taylor Randall
Focus: Managing Product Variety, Supply Chain Management

P. Jeffrey Trimmer
Focus: Management of the Extended Enterprise

Clair Brown
Focus: Innovation Dynamics in the Electronics Sector

Cindy Eddins Collier
Focus: Innovative Perspectives on the Health Care System

Michael Gelb
Focus: Discover Your Genius

Chris Lotspeich
Focus: Innovation, Systems Analysis and Environmental Issues in Business

William H. Newman
Focus: New World Enterprise

Mary Varney Rorty
Focus: Strategic Change in Health Care Organizations

Mitchell Zuckoff
Focus: Idea Entrepreneurs, Business Fads, and Business Scandals


2001 Appointments

Braden R. "Brad" Allenby
Focus: Earth Systems Management

Roger H. Gordon
Focus: Corporate Taxation

Miguel Palacios
Focus: Human Capital Contracts

Sayan Chatterjee
Focus: Post-Merger Integration

Rafi Mohammed
Focus: Integrating On-line Off-line Businesses

Heather Wishik
Focus: Exemplary Global Managers


2000 Appointments

George E. L. Barbee
Focus: Innovating with Customers


1999 Appointments

Saras D. Sarasvathy
Focus: What Makes Entrepreneurs Entrepreneurial?

For more information, contact the Batten Institute at (434) 924-1335.



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