Darden Professor Lalin Anik has some practical advice for aspiring female entrepreneurs: Start by asking questions. Anik will be a mentor and role model at the She Started It: 2017 ESTEAM conference Saturday, 23 September, for female students grades K–12. Darden’s Batten Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation is one of the conference sponsors. Representing industries largely... CONTINUE READING

Public-Private Partnerships That Are Changing the World The Darden School of Business’ Institute for Business in Society partners with Concordia and the U.S. Department of State Secretary’s Office of Global Partnerships to present the annual P3 Impact Award, which recognizes leading public-private partnerships that improve communities around the world. This year’s award will be presented... CONTINUE READING

How do you find and pursue your calling? How do you transition careers? What do institutions need in their leaders? Scott Beardsley became dean of the University of Virginia Darden School of Business after a 26-year tenure at McKinsey & Company. Author of the book Higher Calling: The Rise of Nontraditional Leaders in Academia, Dean Beardsley sat down with University of Virginia Press’... CONTINUE READING

Public-Private Partnerships That Are Changing the World The Darden School of Business’ Institute for Business in Society partners with Concordia and the U.S. Department of State Secretary’s Office of Global Partnerships to present the annual P3 Impact Award, which recognizes leading public-private partnerships that improve communities around the world. This year’s award will be presented... CONTINUE READING

Business is risky — and getting more so. In recent years, given the increasingly complex challenges posed by the economy, regulatory oversight, technology advancement and everything in between, organizations across industries are working to incorporate enterprise risk management (ERM) into their business models. To discuss ERM and provide insight from the chief financial officer’s point of... CONTINUE READING

Values Conflicts Most of us want to bring our “whole selves” to work. Yet experience and research demonstrate that many of us will encounter values conflicts in our careers, when the way we want to live and the things we want to accomplish seem in conflict with the expectations of our clients, our peers, our bosses and/or our organizations. The Giving Voice to Values pedagogy and... CONTINUE READING