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.
The UVA Darden School of Business and Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) have announced a new dual-degree program that will allow students to earn the Darden MBA and Johns Hopkins SAIS Master of Arts in three years, instead of the four years it would take to earn each sequentially.
Speaking to the Retail & Luxury Goods Club at Darden , Coach Divisional Vice President of North America Retail Finance Beth McCann (MBA ‘08) led students through the ups and downs of the company’s recent history to its current position of positive sales momentum and expanding product lines.
Being open to change and hungry to keep learning are critical attributes for sustained career success, according to Piper Jaffray Managing Director Ted Garner (MBA ’90).
The University of Virginia Darden School of Business today was ranked the No. 9 MBA program in the United States in Bloomberg Businessweek’s Best B-Schools 2018.
Ten years after the 2008 financial crisis, three University of Virginia professors want to make sure their students understand what happened and how it could happen again.
Darden Professor Doug Thomas suggests we forget our preconceptions about studying operations. In an era where technology-driven disruption has upended business models, the operations field is richer, more dynamic and arguably more critical to venture success than ever before.
The U.S. government’s 2011 fuel efficiency standards provided manufacturers with a roadmap for innovation. But, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Transportation have proposed changes to these standards, freezing 2020 fuel-efficiency levels and looking to roll back pre-established levels for 2021–26.
Growth. It’s a top priority for many companies. According to a recent study conducted by Gartner, it’s the number one strategic priority for CEOs. It is surprising, then, that less than 3 percent of board members — those at the highest levels of firm stewardship — have executive level marketing experience.
The University of Virginia and the Darden School of Business have announced a dramatic expansion of behavioral research capabilities available to University faculty
The Economist has named the University of Virginia Darden School of Business the No. 1 education experience in the world for the eighth consecutive year.
Electricity began flowing last month from the UVA Hollyfield Solar facility, an innovative partnership between the University of Virginia, the Darden School of Business and Dominion Energy.
As the entrepreneurial offerings at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business continue to grow and mature, funding for ventures started by Darden alumni is skyrocketing.
After several changes to its business model related to its service and fees (some more transparent than others), and a recent decision to automatically restore the subscriptions of customers who had previously opted out of the service, MoviePass has been under fire.
Women and men don’t differ in intelligence or business acumen, yet women continue to fly under the radar when it comes to advancement into executive positions. Christina R.’s story provides insight into why: Sometimes it’s not just what you know or who you know, but who knows you.
The most effective antidote to challenges in leadership communication driven by rapid transformation and disruption is to lean on organizational values, a deep sense of purpose and authenticity, according to members of the Darden School of Business Leadership Communication Council.
Launching 15 October, “Continuous Learning and DevOps” will provide learners with the interdisciplinary tools they need to cultivate a continuous deployment capability in their organization, a skill relevant to software development and a variety of other digital disciplines.
The University of Virginia and the Darden School of Business have announced a dramatic expansion of behavioral research capabilities available to University faculty.
With its struggle over the last 12 months, General Electric ousted CEO John Flannery after only a year on the job. In his place, the company looked to Lawrence Culp, who as Danaher CEO from 2001 to 2014 quintupled the company’s revenues and delivered total shareholder return of more than 450 percent.
The EPIC boot camp offers a counterpoint to the hype of entrepreneurship in Bangalore. It exposes participants to the way expert entrepreneurs think and act, which will benefit them should they take the plunge. As Sridhar put it, “Knowing effectuation at step zero can make a world of difference.”
Two UVA Darden School of Business alumni with similar career trajectories, including formative years spent in Silicon Valley before returning to India, are playing key roles in the country’s growth and maturation, offering a front-row perspective on the changes sweeping the country.
Led by the Darden Center for Global Initiatives, the Darden School of Business announced it is expanding offerings of Worldwide courses for the 2018–19 academic year to an all-time high of 19 faculty-led courses, rising to meet increasing demand from students for global learning opportunities.
Natalie Cucchiara (Class of 2020) is a senior coordinating producer on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” When Darden opened its new facilities in Rosslyn, Virginia — across the Potomac River from D.C.— it opened a whole slate of new possibilities for aspiring MBA students like Cucchiara.
Donald Trump has taken the U.S. out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, imposed tariffs on European, Canadian and Mexican steel and aluminum, and levied a first batch of tariffs on Chinese imports — announcing this week the plan to tariff an additional $200 billion of Chinese goods.
Directors from APX, a Berlin-based venture accelerator visited the Darden School of Business recently to share a European perspective on venture creation and acceleration with students and faculty, further strengthening the ties between the School and Europe’s startup community.
Kosmos Innovation Center facilitates the development of entrepreneurs and businesses, with a focus on the agribusiness sector. A partnership between three organizations, it is led by Kosmos Energy, a global energy company; DAI Global, an international development company; and Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology.
The UVA Darden School of Business is betting that the companies that most successfully navigate incidences of racial bias among their employees, issues of sexual harassment and other social ills — and do their part to get rid of them — will be the most successful companies of the next century.
Two Darden alumni distilling on opposite coasts and making radically different products are in many ways emblematic of the movement, each trading successful financial careers to pursue a passion to craft a handmade product on a human scale.
The University of Virginia Darden School of Business today announced three recently elected members of the Darden School Foundation Board of Trustees
The University of Virginia Darden School of Business announced the election of new members to its Alumni Association Board of Directors, Corporate Advisory Board, Dean’s Diversity Advisory Council and Global Advisory Council.
The DREAMS public-private partnership helps girls develop into Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-free, Mentored and Safe women. DREAMS utilizes a multisector approach to reduce HIV infections among adolescent girls and young women in 10 sub-Saharan African countries.
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