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Tariffs have forced many companies to rethink their supply chains. According to UVA Darden professors Doug Thomas and Vidya Mani, both experts in operations, there are four principles that companies should follow to ensure long-term competitiveness.

Buying a company is just the beginning. UVA Darden’s Les Alexander and alumni CEOs share what separates post-acquisition success from failure.

A new paper by Ed Freeman, Yael Grushka-Cockayne and Prem Menghwar outlines the six principles of Stakeholder Theory that can guide projects toward creating value for all stakeholders, including marginalized stakeholders.

How can Virginia’s universities help build a truly unified innovation ecosystem? Delegates at the 2025 Jefferson Innovation Summit identified five key actions to move the Commonwealth closer to that goal.

Five years after publishing, “The Decarbonization Imperative,” UVA Darden’s Mike Lenox and Rebecca Duff check in on some of the technologies highlighted in the book as best positioned to slow climate change. As COP30 convenes in Brazil, policy makers must address the sluggish pace in which decarbonization is happening across all industries.

A new working paper from UVA Darden assistant professor Ramona Dagostino examines how partisan politics is reshaping municipal finance — and why cities that don’t share their governor’s party pay the price.

Effective leadership demands integrity, vision and ethics — as well as the ability to inspire these qualities in others. Confucianism, an ancient Chinese philosophy, offers timeless insight for cultivating these virtues. In a new technical note, Darden Professor Ming-Jer Chen presents a practical guide for applying Confucian thinking to modern business.

Large language models (LLMs) offer powerful opportunities for automation, creativity and knowledge access. With 800 million people using ChatGPT alone, LLMs are drastically changing the way we interact and operate as a society. No question, this is one of the biggest disruptions of our lifetime; but is it a good one?

UVA Darden Professor Kimberly A. Whitler discusses the Enterprise Activism Risk Model, a framework for looking at activism through a lens of risk. Before making a public statement, she says, executives should ask: How unifying or polarizing is the issue? And how well does a stance fit with the firm’s mission and values?

Prem is working as a Post Doc Research Associate at Darden School of Business, UVA. During the postdoc, he spent some months as an academic visitor at Saïd School of Business, Oxford University. He is a currently working on a book titled "Stakeholder Capitalism: The Definitive Guide with Ed Freeman.