Darden School of Business
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Time to stress test supply chains?
The problem with major disruptions or severe shocks is that they happen infrequently, and this affects our ability to plan for them accordingly. We either underestimate their impact or fail to remember the lessons learned previously
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Is Covid-19 accelerating automation? Lessons for the advent of AI
Firms are using more and more AI in order to substitute for workers, because the lockdown is making the labor supply even harder for firms
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Lean hospitals? How lessons from manufacturing can improve healthcare
Today lean is moving beyond its factory-floor applications, it is slowly making inroads in the U.S. health care system, which is plagued by high error rates and skyrocketing costs
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Urban and Suburban Patterns of Consumption and Time Use
Increasing urbanization can prove challenging in the new era of COVID-19 social distancing guidelines.
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To all the purpose-driven businesses: We will remember you
Many businesses have become more stakeholder oriented, and in line with the Business Roundtable's view that creating value for stakeholders is the real purpose of great companies
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Distant but together: The binding power of questions amid a pandemic
We should see our questions both as a sobering way to realize the scale of the chaos we are in and as a pathway to seek together a deeper, more nuanced understanding of how to approach and, ultimately, to overcome it
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Retail Health Clinic Leaders Help Flatten the Curve of COVID-19
Retail clinic leaders are collaborating with public health organizations and other stakeholders to quickly coordinate public safety measures across the health care system
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The Coronavirus and managing your organization's response
The epidemiological realities of the disease have stark implications for organization
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Closing the gender gap in VC funding
According to the National Venture Capital Association, 86 percent of investment partners in U.S. VC firms are men. That puts women seeking capital at a disadvantage
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Too much of a good thing? Satiation and satisfaction
The satiation model brings greater coherence to our understanding of the dynamics at play — a logical approach that can serve to either support or debunk gut feeling
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The rise of social robots: How AI can help us flourish
Robots that are socially intelligent interact and communicate with people in human-centric terms, create emotional connections and are much more effective in supporting humans than screen-based technologies