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Observations on Leadership and Planet Earth
02 December 2009 “The U.S. will remain the world’s dominant economy for the next 20 years,” said Shumeet Banerji, CEO of Booz & Company, “but there is a dramatic change of circumstances out there, and the world will look quite different in the next 20 to 30 years.”. read more
Fighting Poverty by Transforming Executives
24 November 2009 “The great challenge, I believe, of countries like Colombia and others in Latin America is to combat poverty,” said Pedro Niño Rodriguez, general director of the leading Colombian business school INALDE, who visited the Darden School of Business last week, in collaboration with the Tayloe Murphy International Center.. read more
Academical Village: Tayloe Murphy Virginia
24 November 2009 To bring students and faculty closer together for an exchange of ideas and thought leadership, Darden launched a new program this semester called “Academical Village.”. read more
Winners of the U.Va. Entrepreneurship Cup
24 November 2009 At the inaugural University of Virginia Entrepreneurship Cup on Friday, November 20, $35,000 in prize money and a dramatic bronze trophy depicting the Academical Village were at stake.. read more
New Course Examines HIV/AIDS
23 November 2009 World AIDS Day will take place again this year on December 1, to raise awareness of the global AIDS epidemic.. read more
Unleashing Entrepreneurial Ideas
18 November 2009 Darden School of Business First Year student Georgi Yanchev believes so strongly in the online sales potential of herbal teas that he convinced a panel of judges — all experienced entrepreneurs — on November 6 to select his project as the winner of Darden’s Entrepreneurial Concept Competition.. read more
Leading With Your Brain and Heart
18 November 2009 “Be careful not just to lead with your brain,” said Sergio Rial, Cargill’s Platform Leader of Food Ingredients & Systems and President and Regional Director for Latin America.. read more
What Is the Future of Energy?
11 November 2009 “Peak oil is past tense,” says Matthew R. Simmons, Chairman Emeritus of Simmons & Company International (SCI), who addressed the Darden Community yesterday as part of the Leadership Speakers Series.. read more
The Economics of Film
06 November 2009 Times are tough in the film industry. That’s according to two entertainment professionals who spoke at the Darden School of Business this afternoon.. read more
Entrepreneurship Thrives at Darden
04 November 2009 Entries for the Darden School of Business’s Entrepreneurial Concept Competition shattered records for the second consecutive year.. read more