Rodney Sullivan on what the Supreme Court ruling striking down the Trump administration’s emergency tariffs means for consumers, companies and the broader economy.
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Global Economies & Markets
Faculty insight on trade, markets, policy, global business, and economic change. This topic connects macroeconomic forces with organizational decisions, examining how leaders navigate uncertainty, regulation, capital flows, geopolitical shifts, and cross-border opportunity while building resilient institutions in markets that are increasingly interdependent.
Twenty years ago, Darden asked working professionals to give up their weekends for something no one required them to do: real, unvarnished learning. The first Executive MBA cohort took the bet. Two decades and 1,600+ alumni later, the experiment looks less like a new format — and more like Darden being Darden.
Rodney Sullivan, executive director of the Mayo Center of Asset Management, says an emerging AI-driven productivity boom could lift corporate margins and broaden stock market gains beyond a narrow group of technology leaders.
Darden Professors Doug Thomas and Vidya Mani believe today’s organizations can expect greater changes in global supply chains than at any time in the past 30 years. Their research suggests organizations can remain future-ready by both fully understanding the key factors driving global supply chain changes and, once the landscape is understood, committing to key elements in organizational transformation.
A new policy statement from the Financial Economists Roundtable, co-written by UVA Darden Professor Marc Lipson, says expanding access to private capital markets could benefit long-term retail investors, but carries “significant risks.” The statement proposes ways investors, intermediaries and regulators could address some of the concerns.
What if economists are looking at President Donald Trump’s trade war all wrong? In a new case, UVA Darden Professor Peter Debaere argues that Trump’s tariffs are better understood not through a lens of economic policy, but of political power.
This year, readers particularly connected with pieces that kept them apprised of business and political developments or offered practical insight they could use in their daily life, all while deepening their sense of connection to the Darden community.
Darden professor Rupert Freeman and recent Darden grad James Linville (MBA ’25) on writing a case together based on Linville’s experience leading Abaarso School of Science and Technology in Somaliland.
The University of Virginia convened faculty, technologists, economists and even fiction writers at The Forum Hotel on the Darden School of Business Grounds to explore “minding the gap” between AI’s promise and shortcomings.
At the annual University of Virginia Investing Conference on the Darden School of Business Grounds, hosted by the Richard A. Mayo Center for Asset Management, Lipsky along with moderator Larry Kochard, dug deep into the most pressing issues facing the global economy and markets.
