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Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition (ETA) offers MBAs a path to business ownership. UVA Darden’s Professor Les Alexander breaks down four key funding models — Traditional, Self-Funded, Accelerator and Sponsored — highlighting trade-offs in control, risk and equity.

In today’s volatile global business environment, CEOs face unprecedented complexity and scrutiny. Here are 10 strategic imperatives for the modern CEO, drawn from UVA Darden's faculty research, timely case studies and external partnerships.

The widely watched Economic Policy Uncertainty Index has reached its highest level since the pandemic. And we’re only halfway through 2025. How can business leaders best navigate this environment? UVA Darden Professor Saras Sarasvathy shares lessons from successful entrepreneurs.

During the first U.S.-China trade war, much of the focus was on tariffs — taxes placed on goods traded between the countries. But a new paper co-authored by UVA Darden professor Felipe Saffie reveals a lesser-known, powerful force: the country’s giant state-owned enterprises (SOEs).

How “good” are not-for-profits in the healthcare space? In a new working paper, Darden professor Christoph Herpfer seeks to settle the debate over for-profit and not-for-profit hospitals.

Looking for work or a fresh start? Omar Garriott, executive director of The Batten Institute for Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology, shares three practical job-seeking strategies grounded in how entrepreneurs see the world.

In his last lecture to the Executive MBA class of 2025, Professor Dan Murphy encourages leaders to move beyond simple stories that seem aligned with individual values and perspectives and to wrestle with the real-world complexities and tradeoffs found in economics, leadership and society.

A new study of Nigeria’s top banks finds that having more women on boards doesn’t hurt financial performance. In fact, gender-diverse boards perform just as well as male-dominated ones — debunking the myth that diversity comes at a cost.

AI requires data, lots of it. Tech companies are rapidly building new data centers to house it, which will require massive amounts of electricity. How do we power them and stay on track with our emission reduction goals? An unlikely candidate is emerging – nuclear energy.

Writing for The Conversation, Lauren Kaufmann, an assistant professor of business administration at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, joins colleague Helet Botha of the University of Michigan-Dearborn to explore whether “impact investors” assess if their strategy is having a positive effect.