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Artificial Intelligence Turns Amazon Prime Day into a Strategy Game

Americans spent $24.1 billion online over just four days that coincided this summer with Amazon Prime Day. Behind the headline were equally big changes in how people shopped. Read More

Global Food & Culture Festival 2025 at Darden

The 2025 Global Food & Culture Festival brought students, faculty, staff and guests together in Flagler Court for an evening celebrating the international diversity of the Darden community. Read More

Will AI Destroy Music As We Know It? Hear What Two UVA Darden Musicians Think.

Artificial intelligence is everywhere in the music business, whether you recognize it or not. Every Spotify recommendation is the product of AI-driven algorithms, for example. It’s being used to compose music based on its knowledge of previously published works, breathing new life into the long-gone voices of performers like John Lennon while at the same time igniting worries around copyright infringement and the debate around what authentically can be called “music.” Read More

Darden Faculty and Staff Join 2025 United Way Day of Caring

More than 50 Darden employees registered to participate in the 2025 United Way Day of Caring on 18 September, joining volunteers across the region for a morning of community service. Read More

Darden MBA Legacy: Father and Son Share Global Food Festival Experience Over 20 Years Apart

When Omar Khan (McIntire ’19, MBA ‘26) stepped onto Flagler Court last fall for the beloved Darden School of Business Global Food Festival, it wasn’t his first time taking in the infectious energy of the annual event. It had been over two decades, but the memories from the 2003 festival where Khan raced around while his mom served up homemade Pakistani kebabs and chai came rushing back. Read More

UVA Darden Expands Access With More Than 100 New MBA Scholarships

The University of Virginia Darden School of Business announced a major expansion of scholarship support across its MBA programs, following the successful close of its Powered by Purpose campaign, which generated $632 million in total impact. Read More