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6 Strategies for Resolving — and Preventing — Workplace Conflict

6 Strategies for Resolving — and Preventing — Workplace Conflict

Professor Kristin Behfar sat down with UVA Today to share six tips for doing away with — or at least minimizing — the day-to-day frustrations that crop up despite our best intentions.

Designing for Growth: 5 Keys to Innovation

Designing for Growth: 5 Keys to Innovation

Even large bureaucracies like the Veterans Administration and IBM now use design thinking principals to explore the experiences of key stakeholders searching for insights into better client service.

A ‘Game-Changing’ Election and the Likely Path Forward for Investors

A ‘Game-Changing’ Election and the Likely Path Forward for Investors

Nick Sargen, a Darden lecturer and chief economist at Fort Washington Investment Advisors, published Global Shocks: An Investment Guide for Turbulent Markets, a book that offered advice on managing investments through periods of unexpected turmoil.

Work in the US: The Tenuous Present and Uncertain Future

Work in the US: The Tenuous Present and Uncertain Future

Darden Professor Bob Bruner and Miller Center Senior Fellow Chris Lu discuss the future of work in the U.S. and the changes technology will continue to bring.

Strategy Beyond Markets: The Intersection of Business, Public Policy and Ethics

Strategy Beyond Markets: The Intersection of Business, Public Policy and Ethics

From government regulators and environmental activists to human rights watchdog organizations and other special interest groups — “nonmarket” forces have proliferated in recent years, creating a need for companies to develop a careful, more proactive approach to such external factors and pressures.

2017 Economic Forecast: Uncertainty Looms

2017 Economic Forecast: Uncertainty Looms

Darden Professor Alan Beckenstein and colleague Nick Sargen examine the Fed’s projections for the U.S. economy and offer their own for 2017.

Active vs. Passive Funds: The Mutual Fund Shell Game

Active vs. Passive Funds: The Mutual Fund Shell Game

Are the fees for actively managed mutual funds worth the cost? Although that debate is far from settled, the consensus seems to be “it depends."

Cuban Entrepreneurship and a New Social Context

Cuban Entrepreneurship and a New Social Context

Early in 2017, Darden Professor Morela Hernandez led a weeklong Darden Worldwide Course of 30 MBA students to Havana, Cuba, in which small student teams engaged with a set of self-employed individuals.

Three Things: What Is Disruptive Innovation?

Three Things: What Is Disruptive Innovation?

In this Three Things video, Darden Professor Michael Lenox discusses three classic patterns of disruption.

In The Catalyst: How You Can Become an Extraordinary Growth Leader, Jeanne and her co-authors point out that even in large, established organizations, entrepreneurial skills and mindsets are helpful and, perhaps, critical for surviving in uncertain times. When the book was published in the midst of the Great Recession, we struggled with turbulence that was largely financial. Today, it is also political, and uncertainty runs even deeper. Guidelines and norms of behavior are seemingly changing daily, decades

Lessons From Innovation Catalysts: Can They Help Us Thrive in Uncertain Times?

In The Catalyst: How You Can Become an Extraordinary Growth Leader, Jeanne and her co-authors point out that even in large, established organizations, entrepreneurial skills and mindsets are helpful and, perhaps, critical for surviving in uncertain times.