Saras Sarasvathy, a pioneer and leader in the field of entrepreneurship and ethics, and
associate professor of business administration in the Darden School of Business at the
University of Virginia, has been named the 2008 Falcone Distinguished Scholar in
Entrepreneurship by the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University.
Sarasvathy will be sharing her knowledge of the field in a lecture titled "Made as Well as
Found: Researching Entrepreneurship as a Science of the Artificial" on Friday, Oct. 17, at
11 a.m. in Room 102 of the Whitman School building.
Sarasvathy is a leading scholar on the cognitive basis for high-performance
entrepreneurship and is author of "Effectuation: Elements of Entrepreneurial Expertise"
(Edward Elgar Publishing Inc., 2008), a widely acclaimed framework for understanding
the creation and growth of new organizations and markets. Sarasvathy has also
developed several cases and other instructional materials to teach effectuation. A new
textbook, along with a detailed instructor's manual, is currently in the works.
Sarasvathy holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Bombay and a master's
degree and a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University. Her thesis on entrepreneurial
expertise was supervised by Herbert Simon, the 1978 Nobel laureate in economics. Before
joining Darden, Sarasvathy was on the faculty of the University of Washington and the
University of Maryland. Prior to joining academia, she was part of the founding team in
five entrepreneurial ventures.
The Falcone Distinguished Scholar in Entrepreneurship is awarded annually by the
Falcone Center for Entrepreneurship in the Whitman School. Past recipients include
Jeffrey Covin and Dean Shepherd from Indiana University, and Duane Ireland and
Michael Hitt from Texas A&M. For more information, contact Lindsay Wickham,
entrepreneurship events coordinator, at (315)-443-3550 or lwickham@syr.edu.
