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UVA Darden assistant professor Arthur Delarue’s research reveals how San Francisco Unified School District used optimization tools to redesign school start times, saving more than $5 million in transportation costs. The study will appear in Management Science.

In the latest episode of Office Hours, a faculty spotlight series hosted by Darden Admissions, UVA Darden professor Alex Cowan discusses how experimentation and failure shape the way he teaches future leaders to build products and manage innovation.

As we end our third season, Yael and Mike reflect on the disruptive technologies explored over the last year. It was an interesting mix of good, bad, and no disruption calls. Do they feel the same now about disruptive potential that they did when each episode first aired? What’s coming in 2026?

Tariffs have forced many companies to rethink their supply chains. According to UVA Darden professors Doug Thomas and Vidya Mani, both experts in operations, there are four principles that companies should follow to ensure long-term competitiveness.

Buying a company is just the beginning. UVA Darden’s Les Alexander and alumni CEOs share what separates post-acquisition success from failure.

A new paper by Ed Freeman, Yael Grushka-Cockayne and Prem Menghwar outlines the six principles of Stakeholder Theory that can guide projects toward creating value for all stakeholders, including marginalized stakeholders.

How can Virginia’s universities help build a truly unified innovation ecosystem? Delegates at the 2025 Jefferson Innovation Summit identified five key actions to move the Commonwealth closer to that goal.

Five years after publishing, “The Decarbonization Imperative,” UVA Darden’s Mike Lenox and Rebecca Duff check in on some of the technologies highlighted in the book as best positioned to slow climate change. As COP30 convenes in Brazil, policy makers must address the sluggish pace in which decarbonization is happening across all industries.

A new working paper from UVA Darden assistant professor Ramona Dagostino examines how partisan politics is reshaping municipal finance — and why cities that don’t share their governor’s party pay the price.

Effective leadership demands integrity, vision and ethics — as well as the ability to inspire these qualities in others. Confucianism, an ancient Chinese philosophy, offers timeless insight for cultivating these virtues. In a new technical note, Darden Professor Ming-Jer Chen presents a practical guide for applying Confucian thinking to modern business.