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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?

Prem is working as a Post Doc Research Associate at Darden School of Business, UVA. During the postdoc, he spent some months as an academic visitor at Saïd School of Business, Oxford University. He is a currently working on a book titled "Stakeholder Capitalism: The Definitive Guide with Ed Freeman.

Ramona Dagostino is an Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business.

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.

In a conversation with UVA mathematician Ken Ono, Darden economist Anton Korinek warns the world may be just months away from an “AI takeoff” — a moment when advanced AI systems begin creating even more intelligent successors, threatening white-collar jobs and reshaping the global economy.

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.

A new case from UVA Darden professor Anthony Palomba explores why art matters for business, examining how creative expression shapes culture, strategy and value in the media and entertainment industries.