How Darden Is Using AI to Transform the Admitted Student Experience
At the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, a new AI-powered tool is helping admitted students get those answers faster and in a way that’s reshaping how the School delivers information and support.
Darden’s Christoph Herpfer Named One of “Best 40 Under 40 Business Professors” by Poets & Quants
Citing his holistic teaching approach, research with real-world application, and pioneering work to develop Darden's healthcare offerings, Poets & Quants named Christoph Herpfer to its list of the Best 40 Under 40 MBA Professors for 2026.
AI Is Great at “Normal Science,” but Breakthroughs Still Belong to People
In a recent capstone presentation, Darden professor Keith McCormick offered a grounded perspective on what AI can and cannot do today. According to McCormick, AI excels at what science philosopher Thomas Kuhn calls “normal science,” but may fall short of reaching artificial general intelligence (AGI) without some new scientific breakthrough that changes the current paradigm.
From Darden to Decarbonization: Virginia Covo on Building What Sustainability Was Missing
After devoting seven years to driving Anheuser-Busch InBev toward its carbon emissions, renewable energy and sustainable packaging targets, Virginia Covo (MBA '16) is setting aside her corporate role to take on a new one: entrepreneur.
What Would Greenspan or Volcker Say Today? The ‘Fed Oracle’ Has Answers.
What if we could ask Fed chairs of the past how they would answer policy questions of today? A new AI tool built by a Darden student does just that. The answers, it turns out, are buried deep in decades of dense transcripts and thousands of pages of Fed history.
When AI Meets Faith: Lessons From Darden’s Participation in an MBA Case Competition on Faith and Belief at Work
Three Darden students represented the School at the Fourth Annual Faith and Belief at Work MBA Case Competition, where they explored issues of faith, values and AI deployment at the workplace.
