Online Self-paced
8-10 Hours plus independent study time
Over a 12 Week Period

Course Facilitators:
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.