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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

New research by Prem Menghwar, a postdoctoral research associate at UVA Darden, and Professor Ed Freeman challenges the idea that the main goal of nonprofits is to create social value — not economic value.

New research by UVA Darden professor Christoph Herpfer shows much more variation in physician incomes than commonly thought.

As many founders know, navigating a pivot in real time is far from straightforward. Darden Professor Saras Sarasvathy, an authority on the cognitive basis of high-performance entrepreneurship, provides tools and mechanisms to help determine or create what is worth pursuing.

Professor Asa Palley, an expert in decision analysis, applies some hard math to figure out how we can save Earth from asteroids.

Power is one of the most misunderstood and uncomfortable topics in organizational life. In a new technical note, UVA Darden Professor Peter Belmi and case researcher Bianca Kemp clarify what power truly is, how it differs from status and why that distinction matters.

For decades, organizations essentially bought talent from outside. But in an era where AI is rewriting job descriptions every six months and careers are stretching 60 years, the “buy talent” model is broken. To succeed, organizations must pivot to become builders of capability.

Laura Morgan Roberts, an associate professor at UVA Darden, discusses the concept of “flourishing at work” by exploring four freedoms: the freedom to be, the freedom to become, the freedom to fade and the freedom to fail.

Agentic AI is positioned to transform supply chain management. But the biggest challenge, says UVA Darden professor Timothy Laseter, is moving from pilots to production across complex, real-world supply chains. His new white paper offers practical guidance for business leaders aiming to scale agentic AI in supply chain operations.

UVA Darden professor Justin Hopkins reframes accounting as the language that drives strategy, incentives and behavior — showing MBA students, through cases from WWE to Tesla, how financial information shapes the choices leaders make.