AI Agents Are Learning to Skirt the Rules. Can Businesses Keep Them Under Control?
“Companies have no reliable way to know how a model will behave under pressure.” That concern inspired SnowCrash Labs, an AI safety startup with Darden alumni and student connections.
The Case Method Meets Its AI Moment
AI can generate more answers. Darden’s case method asks students and leaders to do something harder: weigh the evidence, engage with competing views and decide what should be done. Dean Yael Grushka-Cockayne explains why that distinction matters.
This UVA Darden Student’s AI Venture Will Help Us Remember What Matters
Rushing from classes to recruiting events to coffee chats, Miaoxin Wang (MBA '27) found herself overwhelmed by the sheer volume of interactions during her First Year at Darden. She founded a venture to create more value from conversations.
Yael Grushka-Cockayne Isn’t Reinventing UVA Darden. She’s Betting the World Needs What It Does Best.
As UVA Darden’s 10th dean, Yael Grushka-Cockayne discusses AI, human judgment, the case method and why the School’s next chapter should build confidently on what Darden does best.
OpenAI-Hugging Face Incident Shows Why Rapid Disclosure Matters for AI Governance
The OpenAI-Hugging Face security incident exposed more than a technical vulnerability. UVA Darden experts examine why effective AI governance depends on rapid disclosure, collaborative response and safeguards that can adapt as systems evolve.
Darden Alum’s AI Finance Platform Lightens the Load for Startups and Small Businesses
For Michael Fajardo (MBA ’20), the word is a nod first to Michael Porter, the strategist whose Five Forces framework he studied at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business. But it also meant something simpler: a person who carries the bags, lightens the load and helps someone keep moving.
