Passing It On: How One UVA Darden Student’s Kombucha Starter Became a Metaphor for Mentorship
Jessa Ursabia (Class of 2025) swirls a glass jar, watching the scoby — a gelatinous, living culture — drift in its tea-filled home. Soon, it will belong to someone else.
Alumni Entrepreneurs Share Insights, Experiences With Darden Audiences
The University of Virginia Darden School of Business Black Business Student Association, Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Club, and Batten Institute hosted a panel on Wednesday to celebrate diversity in business, highlighting challenges, successes and resilience through the insights of three Black business owners who have MBAs from the School.
From Burnout to Breakthrough: How UVA Darden’s Executive MBA Helped One Student Redefine Success
Madeline Peterson (Class of 2025) had built a career most would envy. She drove market expansions at a real estate tech firm, won million-dollar contracts at a cloud computing company and thrived in high-pressure enterprise sales. She was always moving — closing the next deal, chasing the next opportunity, stacking achievement upon achievement.
‘Noogs’ Inventors Race to Grow Their Business
Paige Foote, a marathoner and running coach, and Ben Foote, a second-year University of Virginia Darden School of Business student, are the entrepreneurs behind Noogs, a startup company seeking to grow in the competitive world of sports nutrition.
Lagos Hustle Meets Darden Grit: How a Nigerian Risk Manager is Shaping Global Business
Anuoluwapo Rogers (Class of 2025) stands up in a crowded room. One of the senior executives of global network services at American Express has just opened the floor for questions. And Rogers, a summer intern at the company, does something that sets him apart.
From Washing Dishes to Wall Street: A Michelin Star Chef’s Journey to UVA Darden
Darden students have varied and interesting career histories, but for Charles Verheggen (Class of 2026), the journey from dishwashing in the Netherlands, to a chef in a three-Michelin-star restaurant in New York, all the way to Darden and a future in investment banking has been especially unconventional.
