In his Digital Operations Strategy course, Darden professor Timothy Laseter uses original cases on companies such as GoFundMe, Walmart and Shiftsmart to show how GenAI is reshaping operations — and how business schools must adapt the case method for an AI-driven world
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Operations & Technology
Research on systems, digital operations, supply chains, and technology-enabled performance. Darden faculty examine how organizations design processes, manage complexity, improve reliability, and use new tools to create efficient, adaptable operations that support strategy, customer experience, and long-term organizational resilience.
Four deans. One question. At a moment of change for business education, leaders from across Darden’s recent history explore what it would take to become the best business school in the world — and why the answer may never be fixed.
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.
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 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.
Block’s recent 40% layoff shook the tech world, partly because CEO Jack Dorsey cited AI as the sole reason for the cuts. Omar Garriot shares insights into the tech landscape in this critical moment, and discusses what aspiring tech entrepreneurs can learn from it.
The LaCross Institute for Ethical AI in Business at the UVA Darden School of Business convened industry experts and faculty, students, staff and alumni for a deep dive into data centers as part of the institute’s Value Chain of Ethical AI series.
For Arnie Katz (MBA ’09), Chief Product and Technology Officer at GoFundMe, his career has been shaped by relentless curiosity, continuous learning, and a deep commitment to human-centered values.
Marc Ruggiano, director of Darden’s LaCross Institute for Ethical Artificial Intelligence in Business and a navy veteran, shares his insights on the clash between Anthropic and the Pentagon and explains how Darden teaches students to navigate the often choppy waters of business, ethics and technology.
When Carlos Bortoni (MBA/M.Ed. ’19) returned to Darden in 2023 as Senior Director of Global Tech Strategy at the Batten Institute for Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology, he was tapped to lead the school’s Tech Hub—a newly launched initiative designed to elevate Darden’s presence in tech.
