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The Power of And: New Book From UVA Darden Professors Examines Responsible Business Without Trade-Offs

June 16, 2020 sarah Jonas darden school of business, UVA Darden

University of Virginia Darden School of Business Professors Ed Freeman and Bobby Parmar and George Washington University School of Business Professor Kirsten Martin co-authored their new book, The Power of And: Responsible Business Without Trade-Offs, available 13 June from Columbia University Press, to offer a new narrative about the nature of business, revealing the focus on responsibility and ethics that unites today’s most influential ideas and companies.

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Leveraging Uncertainty During The Pandemic: Lessons From Expert Entrepreneurs

June 16, 2020 sarah Jonas darden school of business, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Startup, UVA Darden

While the future has always been unpredictable, the global uncertainty caused by the novel coronavirus is at a record high. To help us steer through this unprecedented crisis, Professor Saras Sarasvathy shares insights on entrepreneurial decision-making and offers four strategies seasoned founders use to turn uncertainty into opportunity to co-create a better future.

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Research Affiliates CEO on Leading and Investing in a Time of Uncertainty

June 2, 2020 sarah Jonas Finance, Investing, MBA, UVA Darden

As CEO of global asset management firm Research Affiliates, Katrina Sherrerd (Ph.D. ’87) is leading the influential financial services firm through a period of deep global uncertainty, as world financial markets continue to show great volatility amid the coronavirus pandemic.

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Keys to Small Business Resilience in Uncertain Times

June 2, 2020 sarah Jonas COVID-19, MBA, UVA Darden

Faced with limited customer flow, forced shut down of operations and a looming economic recession, the uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic leaves small-business owners to make decisions with little idea of what the future may hold. What lessons can they take from the success and resiliency of businesses that have survived crises in the past?

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UVA Darden Launches New Digital Product Management Specialization

May 28, 2020 sarah Jonas Agile, MBA, Online Learning, UVA Darden

The University of Virginia Darden School of Business has launched a new suite of courses on digital product management available to learners across the world.

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Leading Mindfully: COVID-19 and the Big Human Pivot, Part 3

May 28, 2020 sarah Jonas COVID-19, MBA, Mindfulness, UVA Darden

If the COVID-19 crisis triggered health, economic, social and psychological changes that mean we will be living and working through destabilizing moments now and for the foreseeable future, then all the more reason now to adopt and practice essential skills of Leading Mindfully. How should we start thinking in new ways that better represent reality?

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Entrepreneurship Journal Devotes New Issue to UVA Darden Professor’s Theory of Effectuation

May 27, 2020 sarah Jonas Entrepreneurship, MBA, UVA Darden

An influential academic journal has devoted the entirety of a recent issue to effectuation, the theory of entrepreneurship pioneered by University of Virginia Darden School of Business Professor Saras Sarasvathy.

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UVA Darden Experts Offer Advice for Cultivating Mental Resilience During the Pandemic

May 27, 2020 sarah Jonas Coronavirus, COVID-19, MBA, UVA Darden

Darden experts offer advice for cultivating mental resilience

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‘Defining Moments’ and Second Chances: Former Prisoner Brings Award-Winning Case to Life

May 27, 2020 sarah Jonas MBA, UVA Darden

Defining Moments and Second Chances: A manager at Cascade Engineering who joined the company through a prisoner reentry program joined a Darden class earlier this spring to share his own journey from incarceration to the working world. “Defining Moments” is a Second Year elective that purposefully places students in realistic, high-pressure situations and helps them consider and learn from their responses and reactions. McKinley asked Darden students to consider the possibility of second chances, noting the legions of people like himself who leave prison wanting nothing more than another opportunity to work hard and to build a life.

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The Real Effect of Fiscal Stimulus: Inequality, Interest Rates and Beyond

May 27, 2020 sarah Jonas global economies and markets, MBA, UVA Darden

Does fiscal stimulus raise interest rates and tighten credit markets, as theoretical models of the macroeconmy predict? New research shows what the real effect of government spending is on the U.S. economy — and what high levels of inequality have to do with the interest rate response to fiscal stimulus.

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Urban and Suburban Patterns of Consumption and Time Use

May 27, 2020 sarah Jonas global economies and markets, MBA, UVA Darden

Increasing urbanization can prove challenging in the era of COVID-19 social distancing, particularly given the dependence on essential services and the unique health concerns of high-population density. A new study clarifies the tradeoffs between city and suburban patterns of consumption and how different areas fulfill essential daily functions.

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Entrepreneurship in China: The Rise of Female Billionaires

May 27, 2020 sarah Jonas China, Entrepreneurship, UVA Darden, Women In Business

China’s progress towards modernization and marketization gave women unprecedented opportunities to launch and scale private enterprises and make billions in the process. Professor Ming-Jer Chen shares insights on how China managed to forge a new class of super-successful female founders.

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