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Scott C. Miller
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Scott C. Miller is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration at the Darden School of Business, Director of the Democracy and Capitalism Lab at the Karsh Institute of Democracy, and Senior Fellow at the Miller Center of Public Affairs. He has received many awards and fellowships, including the Economic History Fellowship at the International Center for Jefferson Studies, the James C. Rees Entrepreneurship Fellowship at The Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington, the Bankard Fund for Political Economy Predoctoral Fellowship, and the John Carter Brown Library Fellowship at Brown University. He is the author or co-author of numerous scholarly papers on economic history, financial crises, and the interplay between societal and economic change. He has also written or co-written 10 case studies on financial crisis and economic development.
Marc W. Modica
Senior Lecturer in Business Administration
Modica’s expertise in negotiation, communications and conflict management comes with broad international experience and particular interest in international business, economics and politics. At Darden, he teaches in Center for Global Initiatives, Global Executive EMBA, and Executive Education and Lifelong Learning programs. Additionally, he designs and delivers programs within the University of Virginia’s School of Medicine and Curry School of Education.
Modica has instructed and consulted all over the world, and before coming to Darden taught at the University of Washington, the University of Hawaii and the International University of Japan, at which he also served in several leadership roles.
B.S., M.A., University of Washington
Marian Chapman Moore
Professor Emeritus of Business Administration
Moore’s expertise is in brand strategy, competitive marketing strategy and emotional responses to advertising.
She was founding associate dean of Darden’s MBA for Executives format of its MBA program and serves as faculty member in Darden’s full-time MBA program and Darden Executive Education courses.
Moore has published in top journals including the Journal of Marketing, Marketing Science, the Journal of Consumer Research, and the Journal of Public Policy and Marketing. She has provided expert commentary for many law firms in cases involving competitive activity, brand meaning and brand infringement.
B.A., College of William and Mary; M.S., Virginia Commonwealth University; Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles
Brian Moriarty
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Moriarty is an authority on public trust in business, communicating with stakeholders and business ethics. He teaches in the Management Communication area at Darden, where he previously served as an adjunct lecturer and director of the Institute for Business in Society. Additionally, he served as director of the Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics, an independent business ethics center housed at Darden.
From 2011 to 2014, Moriarty was selected one of the Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business Behavior by Trust Across America. He is co-editor of the book Public Trust in Business, and his articles on public trust in business and government have been featured in publications such as The Washington Post and Forbes.
B.A., Boston College; M.A., Wake Forest University; Ph.D., University of Virginia
Daniel Murphy
Jung Family Associate Professor of Business Administration
An expert in economics and public policy, Murphy researches the nature of consumer demand and its implications for market outcomes. His work addresses international issues and macroeconomics, including the determinants of cross-country price differences, the causes of fluctuations in the price of crude oil and the consequences of asymmetric economic growth.
Prior to joining Darden’s Global Economies and Markets area in 2013, Murphy was a National Hunger Fellow and research associate at the Urban Institute.
B.S., University of Notre Dame; M.A., Ph.D., University of Michigan
Meghan R. Murray
Adjunct Lecturer
The president and founder of Stynson LLC, an Internet marketing and business strategy consulting firm, Murray teaches the “Digital Marketing” and “Management Communication” courses in Darden’s MBA program. Her expertise extends to interactive media, website design, social media and software product development. At Stynson, she consults clients in all phases of website and software development, marketing and interactive media distribution.
Prior to founding Stynson, Murray brokered multimillion-dollar online partnerships for Gap Inc. and managed proprietary software development for Fannie Mae. She earned her MBA from Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford, with concentrations in business strategy and marketing.
B.A., University of Virginia; MBA, University of Oxford
James Naughton
Associate Professor of Business Administration
An expert in pensions, disclosure, financial regulation and government accounting, Naughton examines how financial, legal and regulatory institutions shape financial disclosure and economic choices. His research has delved into defined benefit pension plans and the financial reporting and economic risks associated with them.
Prior to joining the Darden faculty, he taught at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, where he received a number of awards for his impact and teaching. Before receiving his doctorate in business administration and J.D. from Harvard, he was an actuary at employee benefits consulting firm Hewitt Associates, working on the design and administration of employee benefit plans and executive compensation agreements.
B.S., Worcester Polytechnic Institute; DBA, Harvard Business School; J.D., Harvard Law School
Asa Palley
Associate Professor of Business Administration
Asa is an Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Data Analytics & Decision Sciences (DADS) area at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business. He also serves as an Associate Editor for Management Science.
At Darden, Asa teaches core Decision Analysis courses in the MBA program. He was named as one of Poets & Quants 40-Under-40 Best MBA Professors in 2024.
Asa’s research is centered in the field of decision analysis, which uses quantitative models to help individuals and organizations make better decisions.
Anthony Palomba
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Anthony Palomba is fascinated by the media and entertainment industries and the strategic forces reshaping them. As a media scholar specializing in machine learning, causal inference, and applied econometrics, his research examines how audiences engage with content and how technology transforms competition across the media, advertising, and gaming industries. His work explores the behavioral and economic mechanisms behind entertainment consumption and develops empirical models to understand and predict audience patterns.
Before joining academia, Palomba served as a research manager at Ipsos, leading projects for clients including HBO, Facebook, CNN, Fox Sports 1, and NBCUniversal/Comcast. During his doctoral studies, he collaborated with Nielsen to study how millennials consume and engage with media products and services.
B.A., Manhattanville College; M.A., Syracuse University; Ph.D., University of Florida; M.S., Purdue University (in progress)
Chris Parker
Richard S. Reynolds Professorship in Business Administration
Richard S. Reynolds Professorship in Business Administration Chris Parker teaches core Operations Management courses in Darden’s MBA and ExecMBA programs. His research focuses on exploring the way in which information changes consumer, firm, and employee behavior and the impact this has on broad market outcomes. His work falls broadly into five application areas with significant overlap: (1) Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D), (2) IT-Enabled Retail Models, (3) Financial Services Operations, and (4) Supply Chain Coordination, and (5) Political Engagement. In each of these areas Chris aims to use the necessary data and analyses to rigorously identify areas in which information technology is beneficial, as well as to make policy suggestions to mitigate any detrimental effects. His work has appeared in leading operations management and information systems journals including Management Science, Manufacturing & Services Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, and the Journal of Management Information Systems.
Prior to Darden, Chris was at American University and also the Smeal College of Business at Pennsylvania State University after completing his PhD in Management Science and Operations from London Business School in 2012. He was a Visiting Professor at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business in 2016-2017. He has taught classes related to Python programming, business analytics, supply chain analytics, data visualization, statistics, and supply chain design.