From Classmates to Colleagues: How Alumni Career Services Sparked a Career-Defining Connection
I wasn’t just looking for a job — I was looking for one that would fulfill my career ambitions,” says Roberto Sada Kane (MBA ’05), reflecting on his recent career transition. After years in global business development, he sought a role in which innovation and impact converged.
UVA Darden LaCross AI Institute Awards Fellowships in AI Research
The Fellowship program serves as vehicle for the LaCross AI Institute to pursue and support collaboration in ethical AI research across multiple disciplines, and this year’s recipients exemplify that collaborative spirit.
UVA Darden Pioneers AI-Powered Business Education With OpenAI Partnership
The University of Virginia Darden School of Business today announced a partnership with OpenAI, solidifying its position as a leader in AI-driven business education. The initiative brings ChatGPT EDU to Darden, providing faculty, staff and students with a secure, compliant and tailored AI platform designed for academic excellence and organizational innovation.
Q&A: What Is DeepSeek, the Bargain AI Roiling the Stock Market?
Just a week or so ago, a little-known Chinese technology company called DeepSeek quietly debuted an artificial intelligence app. Is this a technology fluke? A shot across the computing bow? A lasting change in the AI landscape? UVA Today chatted with Michael Albert, an AI and computing expert at Darden, about these questions and more.
Trump Backs Bold AI Agenda. What Are the Risks and Rewards?
After a presidential race that didn’t give much attention to AI, the technology suddenly appears front-and-center for the new administration, producing both excitement and concern. The Darden Report checked in with University of Virginia Darden School of Business professors Mike Lenox and Tim Laseter for analysis.
How Will AI Fundamentally Transform Our Economy?
When the globe’s most powerful nations needed guidance on how artificial intelligence might affect their collective economies, they turned to the University of Virginia’s Anton Korinek. UVA Today caught up with Korinek while he was on a plane returning from San Francisco, where he organized a conference and presented a talk called “The Economics of Transformative AI.”
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.
Goodwill’s New Resale Platform Is Way More High-Tech Than You Might Think
As Black Friday approaches, savvy shoppers are discovering that thrifting offers a sustainable alternative to traditional retail, with unique finds at bargain prices. One leader transforming the thrift shopping experience is Matt Kaness (MBA '02). When the opportunity to serve as CEO arose to lead GoodwillFinds eCommerce, a new social enterprise building an online marketplace for Goodwill organizations nationwide, he leapt at the chance.
From the Slopes to Startups: How Madelyn Merchant is Carving Her Path in Fintech
“Pizza! French fries! Pizza! French fries!” Madelyn Merchant (Class of 2025) yelled, coaxing a group of preschoolers down a beginner ski slope in Sun Valley, Idaho. It was 2018, and Merchant, fresh out of undergrad, had traded the office grind for the fresh air of the mountains. She had always wanted to be a ski instructor, and here she was, guiding her students through the basics, teaching them how to steer their skis with simple shapes. But there was something else she was learning in those moments on the mountain — something that had little to do with skiing.
Will the Innovation Economy Thrive or Suffer Under a Second Trump Presidency?
What might the new administration mean for the innovation economy, including artificial intelligence and sustainability? The Batten Institute for Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology at the Darden School of Business took a closer look.
Automation Could Take Your Job. It Might Create a New One for You Too.
What are we to make of such polar opposites on the promise or peril of automation in business and society? The Darden Report checked in with University of Virginia Darden School of Business Professor Mike Lenox, an expert on the disruptive power of technology, for analysis.
LaCross Professorships Usher in A New Era in AI Leadership at UVA Darden
At the UVA Board of Visitors meeting on 13 September, two new professorships, funded by David (MBA ’78) and Kathleen LaCross, were approved, further solidifying Darden’s leadership in the AI space.
