Operations & technology

Every year, more Darden MBAs are joining what you’d generally call “technology companies” for reasons that may be obvious to you if you read Ideas to Action. Darden faculty consider how to equip them for those roles.

Crowdfunding is a good way to validate demand for a new product or service — and avoid pumping resources into a doomed business.

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.

To keep baseball a game worth playing, yet promote the self-determination of its players, MLB adopts policies intended to balance the competing American institutions of baseball and independence.

Agile is a way of thinking that leads to outcomes like interdisciplinary collaboration and an ability to effectively respond to change, and its principles are relevant to innovative firms everywhere.

When we have access to technology, data, investment and expertise, how do we translate it all to social impact? Darden Dean Scott C. Beardsley interviews Shamina Singh, president of the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth, to find out.

Darden Dean Scott C. Beardsley interviews Dr. Ulrich Bez, former CEO and current board member of Aston Martin and distinguished executive in residence at Darden.

Energize the Chain saves lives by keeping vaccines at temperatures necessary for efficacy. It’s a leading public-private partnership improving communities around the world.

Project Nurture helps small-scale fruit farmers in East Africa improve the quality and quantity of their product, enter the value chain and earn higher incomes.

SAPARM helps pastoralists in Africa find water through the use of satellite technology and is a leading public-private partnership improving communities around the world.