Darden School of Business
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Why WeWork didn't work as planned: Four lessons on corporate governance
Hype vs. discipline. Charisma vs. responsibility. The buzz around Adam Neumann's WeWork went from enthusiasm for a unicorn with billions in venture capital to backlash for a company with a plummeted valuation and scrapped IPO. Yet with new leadership and governance structures, long-term profit may be in sight. What might we learn from WeWork?
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Can venture capital attract human capital? The role of investors' reputations
VCs can add value to startups passively, by virtue of attaching their names to the ventures they fund
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Spotlight on Spotify: Scandal, governance and the potential for prevention
What businesses can learn from Spotify's meltdown — and whether this presents an opportunity for Spotify's competitors
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Go time: How leaders can learn to manage crises and uncertainty
How leaders react when crisis and uncertainty rear their ugly heads?
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A 2022 vision: 5 lessons from 2021 coming into focus
Look at themes and observations Darden experts explored over the course of 2021. The lessons that emerged may inform how leaders lead in 2022
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Less is more: Add value through subtraction
How can people get around their default "Add something!" mode and consider subtraction more — or, rather, neglect subtraction less? Here's what managers can do to help their teams see more possibilities.
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What's the state of women in leadership?
Women continue to be underrepresented, underpaid and, at times, discriminated against in the workforce. Yet there are more women in the C-suite than ever before
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Big Brother in the workplace: Do employees accept behavior tracking?
Compelled to digitally monitor employee productivity, companies are investing in sophisticated behavior tracking tools at a breathtaking pace, giving little thought to how employees feel about those practices
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Climate change is having its moment: Too little, too late?
The only way to decarbonize in time is through massive disruptive innovation across major industry sectors, including transportation, energy, buildings, industrials and agriculture
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This moment in time: Responsible capitalism
Recent years saw more interest in responsible capitalism than ever before, those promises on stakeholder value are now being put to the test as the Covid-19 pandemic scars economies across the globe
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Data matters: 4 workplace functions
Darden experts offer some examples of varied workplace functions on which data analytics can have massive impact