The University of Virginia Darden School of Business continued its fall Leadership Speaker Series Monday with a presentation from Carlos Brito, CEO of Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev).
The University of Virginia Darden School of Business continued its fall Leadership Speaker Series last week with a presentation from Jane Nielsen, chief financial officer of Coach.
Nancy Lazar, a partner of Cornerstone Macro, told investors something they wanted to hear. The U.S. economy is on solid footing. “The tailwinds are tremendous,” she said at the 7th annual University of Virginia Investing Conference.
Experts in innovation treated investors attending the first day of the seventh annual University of Virginia Investing Conference to some startling ideas on health care, cybersecurity, energy and even exponential technologies.
The University of Virginia Darden School of Business Institute for Business in Society (IBiS) and global communication and business strategy firm APCO Worldwide announced today the ranking of the world’s “Top 100 Champion Brands,” based on a global study evaluating the brand strength of nearly 500 of the largest public and private corporate brands. The highest scoring brands in 2014 were Microsoft, Intel, Google, Nestlé and Disney. Darden provided academic insights for the study.
The Journal of Marketing Education ranked Rajkumar Venkatesan, Bank of America Research Professor of Business Administration at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, among the top five percent of faculty researchers in the marketing management and strategy area of business schools.
Chief financial officers from leading companies in the Washington, D.C., region expressed continued optimism about the United States economy at a recent Strategic CFO Roundtable led by the University of Virginia Darden School of Business.
The University of Virginia Darden School of Business Richard A. Mayo Center for Asset Management will host the seventh annual University of Virginia Investing Conference (UVIC) 13-14 November.
The University of Virginia Darden School of Business announced its Institute for Business in Society will host a screening of the documentary Spent: Looking for Change.
Alec Horniman, Killgallon Ohio Art Professor of Business Administration at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, received the Thomas Jefferson Award Friday afternoon during the University of Virginia’s Fall Convocation.
The University of Virginia Darden School of Business continued its fall Leadership Speaker Series (LSS) with a presentation from Denise Morrison, president and CEO of Campbell Soup Company.
The University of Virginia Darden/Curry Partnership for Leaders in Education (PLE) University of Virginia School Turnaround Program’s partnership with Oklahoma public schools recently spurred new academic gains in an underperforming district.
University of Virginia Darden School of Business Professor R. Edward Freeman received the 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award Wednesday at the Sixth International Conference on Corporate Sustainability and Responsibility (CSR) hosted at Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany.Professor Ed Freeman-Lifetime Award
The Economist today released its annual 2014 ranking of the Top 100 international MBA programs and named the University of Virginia Darden School of Business No. 3 in the world. For the fourth consecutive year, Darden ranked No. 1 for Education Experience.
The University of Virginia Darden School of Business announced nine offerings in its Global Field Experience (GFE) program — triple the number offered at the same time last year. The program also begins a new chapter in its existence. The GFE elective offering is no longer a pilot program, but a formalized one — a testament to its impact for both students and organizations.
University of Virginia students have created a new leadership fellowship program that brings together students and professors from three U.Va. graduate schools — law, business and public policy — to practice cross-sector collaboration in the face of real-world problems.
The Aspen Institute announced that University of Virginia Darden School of Business Professor Mary Margaret Frank received the 2014 Aspen Institute Faculty Pioneer Award.
The University of Virginia Darden School of Business Institute forBusiness in Society, Concordia and the U.S. Department of State Secretary's Office of Global Partnerships yesterday announced CocoaLink as a model public-private partnership and winner of the inaugural P3 Impact Award at the 2014 Concordia Summit in New York City.
The University of Virginia Darden School of Business Richard A. Mayo Center for Asset Management will host the seventh annual University of Virginia Investing Conference (UVIC) 13-14 November 2014.
With the advancing technological revolution in which robots and artificially intelligent smart machines will likely replace human workers at a rapidly increasing clip, University of Virginia Darden School of Business Professor Edward D. Hess has authored the forthcoming book Learn or Die: Using Science to Build a Leading-Edge Learning Organization.
The University of Virginia Darden School of Business announced the names of 17 Second Year full-time MBA students who received awards for their pioneering spirit, dedication to service, tenacity and excellence.
The University of Virginia Darden School of Business on Monday welcomed to Charlottesville First Year students from all three formats of its degree program — MBA, MBA for Executives (EMBA) and Global MBA for Executives (GEMBA).
The University of Virginia Darden School of Business Annual Fund raised $5 million in unrestricted support for the 2014 fiscal year — setting its fourth consecutive record. The total reflects a 9 percent increase over the previous year's total of $4.6 million.
Washington-area chief financial officers (CFO) agree that alignment and balancing demands among stakeholders are now priorities for corporate leaders. For these CFOs, the stakeholder groups include shareholders, customers, creditors, employees, community, government and suppliers.
Through a University of Virginia business and education dual-degree program, three graduate students are exploring the use of entrepreneurship, analytics and technology to improve education during their summer internships.
In the new world of “big data” marketers must sift through mountains of information to decide how they will attract customers. How can they target the best data to make the best decisions?
The University of Virginia Darden School of Business has announced three new faculty members, who will join the Global Economies and Markets, Leadership and Organizational Behavior and Marketing academic areas.
The University of Virginia Darden School of Business and the Darden School Foundation announced the appointment of Darden Professor Scott Snell as the new senior associate dean for Darden Executive Education programs effective 1 July 2014. The term expires 30 June 2017.
What do business leaders know about building public trust in their companies? What don’t they know and how might that be important for their particular businesses? Past surveys by Gallop indicate that low public trust in business is an enduring phenomenon, but the underlying causes are not always clear.
The University of Virginia Darden School of Business and the Darden School Foundation today announced the election of a new trustee, Kirby Clarke Adams (MBA ’79), whose three-year term began 1 July.
The University of Virginia Darden School of Business’ Institute for Business in Society (IBiS) and the Council of Better Business Bureaus are collaborating on new research on business self-regulation.
The University of Virginia Darden School of Business today announced the election of several new leadership board members, who will serve the school as advisers in various capacities.
Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe announced yesterday the largest Chinese economic development investment and job creation project in the history of the Commonwealth — $2 billion and 2,000 jobs.
The Richard A. Mayo Center for Asset Management will serve as a global hub of thought leadership and professional development for faculty, students, alumni and business practitioners in the field of asset management.
The University of Virginia Darden School of Business announced today that Darden alumnus James (Jim) Cooper (MBA ‘84), senior managing partner at Thompson Street Capital and current vice chair of the Darden School Foundation Board of Trustees, will assume the role of chair on 1 July 2014.
The University of Virginia Darden School of Business announced today that Darden alumnus James (Jim) Cooper (MBA ‘84), senior managing partner at Thompson Street Capital and current vice chair of the Darden School Foundation Board of Trustees, will assume the role of chair on 1 July 2014.
Academics and practitioners from around the world attended the Darden International Finance Conference held 22 and 23 May, to examine the complicated workings of international markets.
Seven finalists competed in the closing round of the second annual Darden Business Plan Competition, held in April at the U.Va. iLab, housed at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business. The competition, open to all University of Virginia students, faculty and staff, awarded a total of $15,000 in prize money to four winning ventures.
The University of Virginia Darden School of Business’ Batten Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation has partnered with the U.Va. Miller Center to form a nonpartisan commission to determine how entrepreneurship can create jobs for the middle class.
Gary Jones, a 1974 graduate of the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, has received the Charles C. Abbott Award — the highest honor Darden bestows its alumni. Darden Dean Robert F. Bruner announced the award during the State of the School program, held as part of the 2014 Darden Alumni Reunion.
Six professors at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business have been recognized with the Wells Fargo Award for Excellence in Course Materials for teaching cases they developed to prepare students to make decisions amid uncertainty.
More than 3,000 people from around the globe gathered at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business on Sunday, 18 May, for the School's 58th Commencement Exercises.
The Class of 2014 at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business has raised $241,286, a record-breaking fundraising total for MBA students about to graduate.
“As Charles Dickens said, it was the winter of despair and now it is the spring of hope,” said Yifei Li, China chair for the alternative investment provider Man Group, at the inaugural University of Virginia Darden School of Business Shanghai Investing Summit.
Author Alvin Townley kicked off April at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business with a discussion of his new book, Defiant: The POWs Who Endured Vietnam's Most Infamous Prison, the Women Who Fought for Them and the One Who Never Returned.