Online Self-paced

32-40 hours plus independent study time

All four Entrepreneurship Essentials courses in one package: Entrepreneurship & Growth, Entrepreneurship Fundamentals, Entrepreneurship in Practice, Entrepreneurship & Social Impact

George Geis (Entrepreneurship & Growth)
Roger Martin (Entrepreneurship in Practice)
Matthew Wheelock and Chad Ratliff (Entrepreneurship & Social Impact)
Saras D. Sarasvathy and Jim Zuffoletti (Fundamentals)

George Geis

Professor George Geis joined UVA faculty in 2008 and continues to teach finance courses on the topics of contracts, corporations, and accounting. He has served as director and advisor for several programs as well as vice dean of the Law School.

Professor Geis has published in many articles and books. He focuses his research on challenges related to corporate governance and finance and other areas where the law and business intersect.

Geis earned his B.S. from the University of California at Berkeley, M.B.A from the University of Chicago, and J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School. He also has experience working as a management consultant and at law firms on the east and west coasts. More recently, Geis was a recipient of UVA's All-University Teaching Award (2019).

Roger Martin

Professor Roger Martin has been at the University of Virginia since most of his students have been born - 2003. He was born and raised in Kansas, and got his undergraduate degree from the University of Kansas. He is easily distractable by any reference to the Jayhawks - past or present.

Professor Martin has taught financial, managerial, auditing and ethics courses at McIntire and has been awarded the University of Virginia All-University Teaching Award for his teaching excellence. His research focuses on the impact of auditing, assurance services, and other corporate governance mechanisms on the quality of information provided to external users of financial statements.

Outside of his work, Professor Martin and his wife have raised their two sons here in Charlottesville, and those young men are now out in the world making their marks. Professor Martin enjoys running, rowing, golf and woodworking, but can be described as a ""dabbler"" at best in any of these hobbies.

Matthew Wheelock

Matthew Wheelock’s work focuses on improving opportunities and outcomes for K-12 students, particularly those in Title I public schools. He is particularly interested in progressive educational models, experiential learning, and other innovative approaches that promote student agency, self-efficacy, and motivation—and create pathways to success for all learners, particularly those who have previously struggled in school.

Wheelock spearheads the educational innovation area of emphasis and the dual degree MEd/MBA program that EHD offers in conjunction with the Darden School of Business, where he also teaches and has a courtesy appointment as an Associate Professor of Business Administration.

In addition to his work at UVA, Wheelock is active in promoting educational innovation around the country, particularly by building bridges between informal and formal learning environments as an advisor to schools and nonprofit organizations, including the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C., where he serves on the board of directors. He is also the founder and former executive director of Live It Learn It, a nonprofit organization in Washington, D.C. that provides experiential learning programs to thousands of students in Title I public schools each year.

Chad Ratliff

Chad Ratliff is fhe tounding principal of Community Lab School—a nationally recognized R&D school model in Albemarle County Public Schools—and lecturer at the University of Virginia, teaching courses in educational innovation and social entrepreneurship. He is co-author of 'Timeless Learning: How Imagination, Observation, and Zero-Based Thinking Change Schools' and was named one of the "20 to Watch" educational leaders in the country by the National School Boards Association. His work has been featured in The Washington Post, PBS NewsHour, Forbes, Education Week, and several books.

Chad was tapped for several educational innovation events at the White House during the Obama administration and has been called to testify before the Virginia General Assembly on education policy. He was invited to give keynote remarks by the Singapore Ministry of Education and the National Consortium for Entrepreneurship Education, led internal workshops for the National Science Foundation and U.S. Department of Education staff, and has spoken at the American Association of School Superintendents, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and the National School Boards Association, among others.

Chad is currently pursuing a doctorate at the University of Virginia and was the 2025 Walter Eugene Campbell Scholarship Award recipient. In his spare time, he enjoys advising early-stage social ventures focused on educational impact, traveling with his family, and fly fishing for brook trout in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Saras D. Sarasvathy

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 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. Here are links to 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.

Jim Zuffoletti

Jim Zuffoletti is a Serial Entrepreneur with broad leadership and operating experience from co-founding businesses, business units, and foundations from zero to one and beyond. He has founded companies with exits ranging from failure to sale, to divestiture and deka-corn IPO. Jim has also led fundraising efforts exceeding $80 million through investment rounds (angel, corporate, and venture), institutional grants, awards, debt, and government programs. Jim is passionate about advancing Entrepreneurship through his work as Executive Director of the Society For Effectual Action, founded by Professor Saras Sarasvathy, and through teaching Entrepreneurship as an Entrepreneurship Community Director and Adjunct Professor at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business.