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Three Things: Reduce Fatigue and Increase Productivity

In this Three Things video, Darden Professor Manel Baucells, an expert in quantitative analysis, explains three important lessons his research has shown about how the right kind of fatigue management can lead to increased efficiency.

What Is Design Thinking?

Design Thinking for problem solving offers a systematic approach to creativity in order to solve complex business challenges and keep businesses ahead of the innovation curve.

Three Things: Finding Happiness at Work

In this Three Things video, Darden Professor Lalin Anik discusses three ways generosity improves your happiness and performance — and the research that shows it.

Unethical Moves From MoviePass

After several changes to its business model related to its service and fees (some more transparent than others), and a recent decision to automatically restore the subscriptions of customers who had previously opted out of the service, MoviePass has been under fire.

Sponsoring Women in the #MeToo Era

Darden’s Martin Davidson and Lisa Cannell discuss the difference between mentoring and sponsoring women — and the importance of leveraging difference at work.

Courage in the Workplace: Why Many Important Behaviors Happen Far Too Infrequently

Darden Professor Jim Detert and Ph.D. candidate Evan Bruno have developed the Workplace Courage Acts Index (WCAI) to measure how courageous each of numerous workplace behaviors is seen as being in respondents’ own work environments, and how frequently each occurs when opportunities arise.

EPIC: An Effectuation Boot Camp for Startups in Bangalore

To learn the reality of building a business, an entrepreneurship boot camp in Bangalore puts into practice Saras Sarasvathy’s principles of effectuation.

Design Thinking

Design thinking is a creative problem-solving approach in which managers apply the mindset and methods of designers to develop innovative products, processes and business models.

Batten Institute

Darden's Batten Institute prepares leaders to improve the world through the transformative power of entrepreneurship, innovation and technology. 

For more information, please visit the Batten Institute webpage

An Expensive Lesson in Economics: Trump and the WTO

In the midst of the China-U.S. trade dispute, international trade expert Peter Debaere discusses the ramifications of "President" Trump’s threats to leave the WTO.