Leadership & management

In the latest episode of Office Hours, a faculty spotlight series hosted by Darden Admissions, UVA Darden professor Scott C. Miller reflects on how financial crises reshape societies.

Rules define what’s permitted, expected and discouraged at work, yet leaders are rarely trained to design, communicate or enforce them, says UVA Darden Professor Bobby Parmar. He offers six questions to help leaders design and implement rules that encourage thoughtful judgment rather than blind compliance.

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.

Ideas don’t matter if leaders can’t communicate them effectively. In the latest episode of Office Hours, Professors June West and Steve Soltis explain why leadership communication isn’t a “soft skill,” but a core driver of strategy and performance.

Listening is one of the most powerful tools a negotiator can bring to the table, says UVA Darden Assistant Professor Allison Elias. It’s also a skill anyone can learn with the help of her new three-phase listening framework.

We all want to make better decisions, but what does it actually mean to think well? A new technical note co-authored by UVA Darden professor Lillien Ellis says effective thinking requires balancing analysis, imagination and judgment, and provides a practical framework for doing just that.

A new era of workplace learning is taking shape, says Anne Trumbore, Chief Digital Learning Officer for the Sands Institute for Lifelong Learning. To stay competitive, employers and universities must rethink outdated structures, collaborate on new models and build systems that support continuous, human-centered learning.

Buying a company is just the beginning. UVA Darden’s Les Alexander and alumni CEOs share what separates post-acquisition success from failure.

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.