Offering an economic forecast in the calmest of times is no easy task. Offering one in 2019, when it often feels like “Crazy Land in the world economy,” as University of Virginia Darden School of Business Professor Alan Beckenstein recently described the current landscape, is a particularly fraught business.
How will Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods — a strong brand whose momentum faltered in recent years — play out in stores and on the balance sheet?
Like many Americans, Kimberly Whitler will tune into this Sunday’s Super Bowl not just for the game, but for the ads. While the New England Patriots and the Los Angeles Rams duke it out on the field, major companies will compete to see who can make the most of the priciest advertising slots in television.
Sailors on ships like the USS Alamo spent days and weeks in the territorial waters of Vietnam, where they could have been exposed to the toxic herbicide Agent Orange — linked with various health conditions including Parkinson’s disease and cancer.
In its Global MBA Ranking 2019, Financial Times named the University of Virginia Darden School of Business the No. 1 MBA program in the world for General Management and Corporate Social Responsibility.
Kelly Bonilla and Jade Palomino didn’t waste any time when they arrived at Darden. The two First Year students are hard at work establishing a business that takes aim at one of the few services that have so far remained immune to the wave of disruption that has upended countless industries: the beauty salon.
To offer post-crisis analysis of the global financial crisis of 2008, the UVA Miller Center co-sponsored an event with the Brookings Institution and UVA’s School of Law, Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy and Darden School of Business entitled, Ten Years Later: Lessons from the 2008–09 Financial Crisis.
A new report from the University of Virginia Darden School of Business explores new and emerging technologies that may hold promise for decarbonizing the world’s industrials sector.
In March 2018, Darden opened the doors to its new Sands Family Grounds in the Rosslyn district of downtown Arlington, Virginia, amid Washington, D.C.’s powerful mix of government, policy, corporations, commerce and nonprofits.
The University of Virginia Darden School of Business is wrapping up an eventful year, which included a record-setting year of giving from the School’s generous alumni and supporters that generated a total philanthropic impact of $65.5 million.
The University of Virginia Darden School of Business Institute for Business in Society and Virginia Community Capital (VCC) announced BWS Landscaping as the winner of the 2018 Tayloe Murphy Resilience Award during the 2018 Learning Exchange in Richmond, Virginia.
NEOFECT, the medical technology company co-founded by two University of Virginia Darden School of Business alumni, hit a pair of significant milestones recently, opening a second U.S. office in Richmond, Virginia, and successfully debuting on the KOSDAQ, a stock exchange based in Korea.
Speaking to students at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, Pink said writing had been a primary outlet at every step of his career, beginning with short stories as an undergraduate to magazine articles on the side while serving as a speechwriter for then Vice President Al Gore.
Like wealthy New York “angels” who funded Broadway productions a century ago, today’s angel investors have a healthy appetite for risk, providing personal capital to fledgling companies in exchange for equity.
Hach Co. President Kevin Klau (MBA ’02) attributes much of his career success to what he described as his good fortune to align himself with three “extraordinary institutions” in his life: the University of Notre Dame, the University of Virginia Darden School of Business and Danaher.
The finance sector is as dynamic and multilayered as ever. The space remains one of the most robust at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business — a key component of the core curriculum and the source of scores of electives taught by more than a dozen full-time faculty in the area.
Momentum is growing in the corporate world — more companies are realizing that the convergence of advancing technologies will change how we live and how we work. This realization has led some leaders to initiate either a digital transformation or the building of an innovation system.
In his final, posthumously published book, famed physicist Stephen Hawking raises an alarm about the dangers of artificial intelligence, or AI, and the existential threat it could pose to humanity.
Student founders at the UVA Darden School of Business have a new avenue of support. Darden Venture Lab, launched in September by Darden’s Batten Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, offers students dedicated workspace, group meetings, mentorship, networking and financial assistance during the academic year.
The Princeton Review named the UVA Darden School of Business among the top MBA programs in a number of key categories, including the No. 1 ranking for best professors and the best MBA for consulting.
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