What’s Next for Darden?
Five big issues that will determine the future for the Darden School of Business.
Beyond the Headlines: Darden’s Exceptional Career Outcomes
The Darden Report checked in with Jeff McNish, senior assistant dean of Darden’s Career Center, to gather a more complete picture about the School’s 2024 figures and to discuss the School’s approach to assisting MBAs with landing a job and developing rewarding careers.
Q&A: Darden’s Solutions for Developing Functional Leadership
As the world moves faster and with more complexity, leaders face pressure to be both technically advanced in their specific area and also able to think and operate at an increasing enterprise level. Functional leadership helps leaders in key functional areas of a company – such as marketing, finance, human resources or operations – improve and develop expertise in that function while also understanding how the pieces fit together in the entire organization.
UVA Darden Conference Links Ethical Value Chain to AI Boom
As AI-powered industries barrel headlong into an unknown future, the University of Virginia Darden School of Business is grappling with the many implications of AI’s peril and promise. At the recent conference hosted by the LaCross Institute for Ethical Artificial Intelligence inBusiness, speakers from academia, government and industry sought to make sense of the once-in-a-generation technological marvel and the extraordinary ethical complications.
The Darden Stories You Liked Most in 2024
Another banner year for the University of Virginia Darden School of Business is coming to a close, and we are reflecting on some of the biggest stories of 2024. Between record rankings, new building projects on Grounds, students and alumni making moves in the business world, and Darden experts giving insights on a tumultuous year in the news, our readers had a lot to catch up on. Here’s a round-up of our top Darden Report stories of the year and audience favorites.
UVA Alums’ ‘Micro Farm’ Has Darden School Seeing Greens
Carl Lasley harvested basil plants, using scissors to carefully snip the aromatic herb, trimming some and completely harvesting others. The lush, richly green plants were grown in hydroponic trays in a corner of the food serving area at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business.
