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Rodney Sullivan, executive director of the Mayo Center of Asset Management, says an emerging AI-driven productivity boom could lift corporate margins and broaden stock market gains beyond a narrow group of technology leaders.

Ideas don’t matter if leaders can’t communicate them effectively. In the latest episode of Office Hours, Professors June West and Steve Soltis explain why leadership communication isn’t a “soft skill,” but a core driver of strategy and performance.

Darden Professor Tim Laseter shares take-aways from the world's largest technology trade show in Las Vegas. From robots to beauty tech to smart glasses, CES features the latest in cutting edge new tech. What’s new, scalable, or hype?

Steve Soltis came to Darden in 2017 as a co-founder of the Darden Leadership Communication Council with Professor June West. He teaches a range of communication courses across the residential MBA, executive MBA, part-time MBA, and executive education areas.  In 2022, he was nominated for the Darden Outstanding Faculty Award.

A new policy statement from the Financial Economists Roundtable, co-written by UVA Darden Professor Marc Lipson, says expanding access to private capital markets could benefit long-term retail investors, but carries “significant risks.” The statement proposes ways investors, intermediaries and regulators could address some of the concerns.

Listening is one of the most powerful tools a negotiator can bring to the table, says UVA Darden Assistant Professor Allison Elias. It’s also a skill anyone can learn with the help of her new three-phase listening framework.

What if economists are looking at President Donald Trump’s trade war all wrong? In a new case, UVA Darden Professor Peter Debaere argues that Trump’s tariffs are better understood not through a lens of economic policy, but of political power.

Entrepreneurship runs on asking. From testing ideas to securing customers and partners, progress depends on a founder’s ability to ask well. This isn’t a soft skill — it’s the core competency behind every venture. Here’s a practical guide to what to ask, whom to ask and how to ask effectively.

We all want to make better decisions, but what does it actually mean to think well? A new technical note co-authored by UVA Darden professor Lillien Ellis says effective thinking requires balancing analysis, imagination and judgment, and provides a practical framework for doing just that.

In the latest episode of Office Hours, UVA Darden Professor Pnina Feldman explores her passion for service operations and a new case that asks students to confront a familiar restaurant dilemma: balancing dine-in experience with delivery demand.