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Is Venmo Making You Less Likable?

What's the value of 10 cents in terms of friendship? It could be more than you think. Applications like Venmo may add ease to life and precision, but sometimes that precision implies pettiness, making relationships feel transactional. Here's the research behind it.

11 Key Characteristics of a Global Business Leader

How do you learn to conduct international business effectively? Professor James Clawson shares the 11 key characteristics of a global business leader.

Fear: The Big Inhibitor of Innovation and Transformation

Ed Hess discusses how an organization transforms: By helping its people mitigate fear of change. It starts with the right people asking the right questions.

Amid Strong US Economy: 3 Threats?

Most economic crises fade quickly into blurry memories, but the same can’t be said of the mortgage meltdown and Great Recession of 2007–09. A decade later, three of Darden’s top economics and finance professors share their concerns of a repeat.

Economic Inequality, Part 1: Where We Are and Why

For three years, Darden Professors Jim Freeland and Ed Freeman, initially with the help of Professor Ed Hess, have taught a popular course titled “Economic Inequality and Social Mobility” to help students become more aware of what may be one of the defining challenges of their lifetime — economic inequality — and to focus on what business can do to

Can Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Save Our Cities?

Entrepreneurial activity is concentrated in large markets more than ever, but small and midsize cities increasingly view startup culture as a key ingredient to a thriving future. A new Darden project aims to unearth how those cities can build an entrepreneurial ecosystem.

Economic Inequality, Part 2: Where We’re Going and Why It Matters

Economic inequality may be one of the defining challenges of our time. Income mobility has decreased, and the reinforcing loops of economic and opportunity inequality correlate with health and societal harms. What will happen as artificial intelligence rises and human employment decreases?

10 Design Thinking Tools: Turn Creativity and Data Into Growth

This article, adapted from Professor Jeanne Liedtka and Timothy Ogilvie’s "10 Tools for Design Thinking," includes steps managers can use to identify and execute opportunities for growth and innovation.

Will Amazon Get Whole Value from Whole Foods?

In 2017, Amazon announced it would acquire Whole Foods, and the company paid $13.2 billion for the deal, about $9 billion more than the grocery chain's fair market value. Will this ultimately mean a massive write down in value for the tech giant or a savvy investment?