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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.

Large language models (LLMs) offer powerful opportunities for automation, creativity and knowledge access. With 800 million people using ChatGPT alone, LLMs are drastically changing the way we interact and operate as a society. No question, this is one of the biggest disruptions of our lifetime; but is it a good one?

UVA Darden Professor Kimberly A. Whitler discusses the Enterprise Activism Risk Model, a framework for looking at activism through a lens of risk. Before making a public statement, she says, executives should ask: How unifying or polarizing is the issue? And how well does a stance fit with the firm’s mission and values?

In the latest episode of Office Hours, a faculty spotlight series hosted by Darden Admissions, UVA Darden professor Michael Albert discusses whether AI is a bubble and why he is excited about agentic AI.

The challenge for marketers is no longer whether to use AI, but how to choose among the flood of potential projects competing for budget. UVA Darden professor Rajkumar Venkatesan, who advises Fortune 500 companies on AI adoption in marketing, has developed a framework to help cut through the noise.