In this special edition of the Darden Admissions podcast, we share a recent installment in our ongoing ‘Office Hours’ faculty spotlight series, a conversation with Professor Les Alexander. Alexander is an experienced professor, venture capital and private equity investor, corporate executive, and investment banker, and he is a Professor of Practice in the Finance and Strategy, Ethics & Entrepreneurship areas at Darden. In this wide-ranging conversation, we talk with Alexander about Venture Capital (VC), Private Equity (PE), his Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition (ETA) elective, plans for the UVA Venture Capital Conference, his advice interested in VC and PE and more.
Experience Darden #260: Student Spotlight | Kristin Scruggs
Experience Darden #259: Meet the Consortium Liaisons | Amari Brown, Chris Woodfolk, Camilla Zhang and Beth Siyoum
Experience Darden #258: Meet Carlos Bortoni (MBA/M.Ed ’19), Senior Director, Tech Hub, Batten Institute
Experience Darden #257: Meet Jen Coleman, Executive Director, Armstrong Center for Alumni Career Services
Experience Darden #256: Women@Darden Spotlight | Executive Fellow and Professor of Practice Carolyn Miles (MBA ’88)
Experience Darden #255: Spotlight on UVA Venture Capital Conference
Experience Darden #254: Student Spotlight | Sloane Grey
Experience Darden #253: Meet Vincent Truong and Jill Howland, DSA President and DSA Executive Vice President
Experience Darden #252: Student Spotlight | Jon Rickords
Experience Darden #251: Meet Anna Fife (MBA ’14), Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives, Batten Institute
Experience Darden #250: Student Spotlight | Aidan Connell
Experience Darden #249: Student Spotlight | Yonah Greenstein
Experience Darden #248: Student Spotlight | Ty Sheets
Experience Darden #247: Women@Darden Spotlight | Senior Associate Dean Yael Grushka Cockayne
Experience Darden #246: Darden’s Global Courses | Marc and Shizuka Modica
Experience Darden #245: Student Spotlight | Ibukunoluwa Aiyemo
Experience Darden #244: Student Spotlight | Seiver Jorgensen, MBA/ME
Experience Darden #243: Office Hours Spotlight | In Conversation with Professor Jim Naughton
Experience Darden #241: Looking Back on the Fall Semester | Melissa Thomas-Hunt & Yael Grushka-Cockayne
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