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Leadership & management

Six Critical Factors to a Global Career

The Darden editorial team recently sat down with alumnus Scott Price (MBA ’90), executive vice president and chief administration officer of Walmart International and president and CEO of Walmart Asia, for a discussion on how to best prepare for a global career path.

Earlybird or Latecomer? How Pecking Order and Timeliness Matter in Collaboration

Darden Professor Melissa C. Thomas-Hunt discusses how status and timeliness of response affect how a person’s message is received by his or her colleagues.

Everybody’s Biased, So I Can Be Too

How can businesses tackle a seemingly intractable problem such as stereotyping? Leaders have to structure processes correctly to weed out bias.

Virtual Culture and Leadership: How to Manage Long-Distance Teams

Darden Professor June West discusses The Economist Intelligence Unit’s “Foresight 2020” research report that outlines five key trends in business for the next 15 years.

Beyond Strategy: Three Steps Toward Execution

Enhancing execution capability is a three-step process. Overriding priorities are to (1) profile businesses in ways that are usable by the senior team, (2) do so using operational data currently accessible in the business, (3) provide rapid diagnostics of execution capability and (4) prioritize targeted intervention to address capability gaps.

Three Things: How to Inspire Others

In this Three Things video, Darden Professor Morela Hernandez explains three behaviors a leader must exhibit to inspire followers.

Beyond Strategy: 3 Lessons and 4 Ingredients of Execution

A couple of years ago, during a strategic review process at SunTrust, an analysis of the banking financial services industry revealed something very interesting: Strategy alone did not differentiate high- from low-performing firms. The true differentiator between winners and losers turned out to be how well the strategy was executed.

Should CEOs Take an Oath of Office?

Darden Professor Mark Haskins discusses the significance of an oath of office to leaders and their organizations' stakeholders.