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Corporate Innovation: How to Fund and Execute the Next Big Thing

How do you make sure the next big thing gets enough resources vs. zombie projects that lumber on without delivering?

Corporate Innovation: How to Find the Next Big Thing

How do you identify disruptive new ideas that will drive organic growth and renew the corporation?

The Power of One: East Meets West in Strategy

Competition is defined by the relationship between its constituent parts: action and response. The two are as interdependent as day and night; they exist within the context of one another, together creating one totality.

3 Keys to Project Management: Lessons From the 21st Century Battlefield

For any business delivering a project, service or result, a keen understanding of project management principles can be the crux of success or failure not just for a specific project, but for a whole team or business; stakes are high. The same is true in the military, where the stakes can literally be a matter of life and death.

What’s the Real Purpose of Annual Employee Reviews?

When Darden did away with traditional performance reviews, it took an employee-centric approach to develop an iterative, productive feedback process. Here’s how.

The Business of Ethics: How to Ask the Right Questions

UVA Darden School of Business Professor Bidhan Parmar re-examined Milgram’s audiotapes. What he found exemplifies how both Darden and UVA’s McIntire School of Commerce approach ethics education.

Lopsided Growth: Can a Rising Tide Sink Some Boats?

Is it possible for economic growth to make some people worse off? If so, under what circumstances?

Three Things: What Is Impact Investing?

In this Three Things video, Darden Professor Elena Loutskina discusses three important aspects of impact investing.

The Why of Business

Leading a public company since the late 1980s has been pretty easy in terms of understanding the “rules of the game.” That’s because the purpose of business has been so clear: just create shareholder value. But the "why" of business is changing in new and old ways.

Early Entrepreneurship: 3 Deeper Benefits of the Ask

Darden Professor Lalin Anik has some practical advice for aspiring female entrepreneurs: Start by asking questions.