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Prof. Andrea Larson
Professor of Entrepreneurship, Darden School of Business, USA

Andrea Larson

Andrea Larson is an Associate Professor of Business Administration at the Darden Business School, the graduate school of management at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia. She has served for over 20 years on the faculty teaching in the MBA program and in Executive Education in the areas of entrepreneurship, strategy, ethics, innovation, and sustainable business. She currently teaches the required MBA elective for students concentrating in sustainability. Professor Larson has taught on entrepreneurship, innovation and sustainability innovation by invitation at Stanford Graduate School of Business School (2007 and 2010) and the Bainbridge Institute (MBA in Sustainable Business). Larson’s textbook, forthcoming from electronic publisher Flat World Knowledge (Sustainability, Innovation and Entrepreneurship), examines the wave of innovation spreading across the world today as entrepreneurial individuals and organizationsgenerate profits and new revenue streams by incorporating ecological, human health, social equity, and community prosperityconcerns into product design, operations, strategy, and supply chain management. Building upon earlier research on economic development, entrepreneurial innovation, alliances and network organizations, her current research, teaching, and curriculum development focuses on innovation by companies engaged in sustainable business as a strategic and competitive advantage. Her research publications have appeared in journals including Administrative Science Quarterly, The Journal of Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Business Strategy and the Environment, and Interfaces. Her work has also appeared as chapters in edited volumes on sustainability and innovation, green chemistry, ethics, and entrepreneurship. She has produced over 50 teaching materials (cases and background notes) on entrepreneurship and sustainability topics. Larson was co-founder in 2002 of The Ingenuity Project, a multifaceted program to integrate theory and practice on entrepreneurship/innovation together with sustainable business practices, and to encourage their use in management education as well as corporations. Entrepreneurship theory and practice, green chemistry and engineering design, industrial ecology, and cradle to cradle design are illustrative of the core approaches. She has testified before Congress on green innovation as a US national strategy and contributed to a National Research Council study of sustainability innovation in the chemical industry. Among her current projects is collaboration on a National Science Foundation green building technology innovation study. She is also part of an interdisciplinary UVA faculty team looking at sustainable development issues in Panama, and collaborating with the Reynolds Program on Social Entrepreneurship at New York University. She holds a joint PhD from Harvard University and Harvard Business School.

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