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How can business leaders respond to the growing uncertainty? How can they make decisions and act? Darden Professor Saras Sarasvathy, one of the world’s leading authorities on entrepreneurial decision-making, shares tips on how to thrive amid unpredictability.

Mike Lenox and Yael Grushka-Cockayne talk with Anna Siefken, Director for Policy & Markets, North America for the Long Duration Energy Storage Council about Long Duration Energy Storage, or LDES, and why these technologies are the best chance we have to maintain grid stability in this time of growth.

UVA Darden professor Chris Parker has developed a practical checklist for organizations looking to move from curiosity about AI to real-world impact.

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

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.

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.

Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, and other streaming giants are pouring billions into high-profile series. But is a handful of megahits really enough to attract new subscribers while keeping existing audiences engaged? The answer, it turns out, is more complicated than the industry tends to assume.

For Waymo, Google’s self-driving car unit, each trip is a real-world test of whether its business model holds up. The bigger question, according to Interim Dean Mike Lenox, is: who will capture the value — the companies that build the vehicles, or those that write the software that drives them? 

Mike Lenox and Yael Grushka-Cockayne talk with Ian Appel, UVA Darden Associate Professor and Academic Director of Richard A. Mayo Center for Asset Management, about Fintech and the future of banking.

New research from UVA Darden Professor Roshni Raveendhran offers a structured approach to designing remote work strategies that align with an organization's performance objectives rather than merely reacting to employees’ flexibility demands.