Darden School of Business
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Learning from the competition: How drug companies can increase their R&D effectiveness
Pharmaceutical companies' success depends in large part on their ability to consistently generate and access promising new ideas. However, that's not enough. How do you select and prioritize R&D projects that deliver value?
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The 4 phases of marketing communication during Covid-19
How marketing teams were communicating with customers during the crisis
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Rebound or permanent slump? Possible impacts of US COVID-19 fiscal policies
In new research by Daniel Murphy and his co-authors is pivotal in that by modelling economic slack, they map the alternate paths that the economy may take in the upcoming months
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The power of superstar firms amid the pandemic: Should regulators intervene?
Even amid the pandemic's economic wreckage, megacompanies continue to prosper. The combined share price for Apple and its five peers was up more than 43 percent this year, while the rest of the companies in the S&P 500 collectively lost about 4 percent
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Netflix, $100 million and Black-Owned banks
Netflix's investment announcement, investors pushed up stock prices, appearing to vote with their pocketbooks by supporting institutions that have the potential to decrease racial wealth gaps
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What can managers do to help employees working from home?
It's a challenging time, but new research from University of Virginia Darden School of Business Professor Roshni Raveendhran suggests managers can employ several specific strategies to help their employees cope
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Get back to basics: Company culture in times of upheaval
Today, with no chance to meet around a conference room table or even exchange pleasantries in a hallway, managers need to "get back to BASICS" to support and engage employees
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Uncertainty during the pandemic: Lessons from expert entrepreneurs
To help us steer through this crisis, expert shares insights on entrepreneurial decision-making and offers four strategies seasoned founders use to turn uncertainty into opportunity
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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