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Operations & technology

3 Keys to Project Management: Lessons From the 21st Century Battlefield

For any business delivering a project, service or result, a keen understanding of project management principles can be the crux of success or failure not just for a specific project, but for a whole team or business; stakes are high. The same is true in the military, where the stakes can literally be a matter of life and death.

Hits and misses in a bid for big-league money

To keep baseball a game worth playing, yet promote the self-determination of its players, MLB adopts policies intended to balance the competing American institutions of baseball and independence.

5 Reasons Your Next Job Is Agile

Agile is a way of thinking that leads to outcomes like interdisciplinary collaboration and an ability to effectively respond to change, and its principles are relevant to innovative firms everywhere.

C-Suite Insights With Scott Beardsley: Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth’s Shamina Singh

When we have access to technology, data, investment and expertise, how do we translate it all to social impact? Darden Dean Scott C. Beardsley interviews Shamina Singh, president of the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth, to find out.

C-Suite Insights With Scott Beardsley: Aston Martin’s Ulrich Bez

Darden Dean Scott C. Beardsley interviews Dr. Ulrich Bez, former CEO and current board member of Aston Martin and distinguished executive in residence at Darden.

Energize the Chain: A Public-Private Partnership

Energize the Chain saves lives by keeping vaccines at temperatures necessary for efficacy. It’s a leading public-private partnership improving communities around the world.

Project Nurture: A Public-Private Partnership

Project Nurture helps small-scale fruit farmers in East Africa improve the quality and quantity of their product, enter the value chain and earn higher incomes.

Satellite Assisted Pastoral Resource Management: A Public-Private Partnership

SAPARM helps pastoralists in Africa find water through the use of satellite technology and is a leading public-private partnership improving communities around the world.

The Bottom Line on the Extended Enterprise: How Collaboration Can Lead to Real Financial Rewards

For well over a decade, Darden Professors Robert E. Spekman and Edward W. Davis have been interested in the extended enterprise, a collaborative approach to supply chain management in which key members view one another as partners rather than adversaries.

Lean Practice: Cinch in the Waste

Through the continuous refinement of practices and procedures, lean management seeks to produce more goods more quickly while using fewer resources — less factory space, fewer worker movements and fewer assembly steps.