Research Centers
Our Research Centers extend Darden's influence in critical areas advancing both thought leadership and the application of new ideas.
The Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability (ARCS) advances rigorous academic research on corporate sustainability issues by providing data, tools and networking opportunities to scholars. ARCS held its second annual research conference at Harvard Business School in May 2010. ARCS also co-sponsors with the University of Ontario’s Richard Ivey School of Business an annual PhD Sustainability Academy, which immerses young scholars in a multidisciplinary dialogue with leading sustainability faculty. In 2010, ARCS conducted a National Science Foundation-sponsored workshop on Data Needs for Accelerating Progress on Corporate Sustainability. Founded in 2009, ARCS is housed at the Darden School of Business. The Faculty Director is Darden Professor Michael Lenox and the Managing Director is Darden’s Manager of Sustainability Programs Erika Herz.
The Batten Institute at the Darden School of Business creates value and transforms society through entrepreneurship and innovation. The Institute’s academic research center advances knowledge that addresses real-world challenges and shapes Darden’s curriculum, and the Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership offers one of the world’s top entrepreneurship programs. The Batten Institute was established with gifts now totaling over $100 million from UVA alumnus Frank Batten, Sr., a media pioneer, visionary, and founder of The Weather Channel.
The Behavioral Research at Darden (BRAD) Lab is an interdisciplinary laboratory supporting behavioral research at Darden. Researchers affiliated with BRAD study organizational behavior, marketing, business ethics, judgment and decision-making, behavioral operations and entrepreneurship.
Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics, housed at the Darden School, is an association of chief executive officers. Its mission is to enhance ethical behavior of business leaders in the conduct of day-to-day business decision making.
The Center for Global Initiatives (CGI) gets students and executives ready for global opportunities by developing and implementing educational programs and research projects to enhance understanding of international issues. CGI also aims to increase global awareness of Darden and of the University of Virginia by promoting interaction between Darden and the rest of the world and currently has partnership agreements with over 20 international business schools in more than 15 countries. Overseas faculty and business leaders are brought to the university and the state to share their experiences, knowledge and perspectives, and in any given week Darden may have a distinguished global speaker, an international food festival, faculty members consulting abroad or the dean hosting a guest from outside the United States.
UVA Darden–Curry Partnership for Leaders in Education merges best practices from business and education administration to provide senior leadership of school organizations and their business and community partners with a new leadership perspective.
The Olsson Center for Applied Ethics, one of the world’s leading sources of thinking about ethics and business, conducts research, publishes books and other resource materials and sponsors the Ruffin Lecture Series.
The Society for Effectual Action (SEA) is a group of academic researchers, instructors, and entrepreneurs gathered for a single purpose: to fundamentally change the way entrepreneurship is taught and learned around the world. Co-founded by Professor Saras Sarasvathy and Darden alumni Chip Ransler and Ian Ayers, with support from the Batten Institute, SEA enables researchers and instructors to disseminate and discuss contributed papers, articles, teaching materials and techniques. Serving as a central hub for effectuation research, SEA invites the community to extend the principles presented in Sarasvathy’s book, Effectuation: Elements of Entrepreneurial Expertise (2008), to new areas and practical applications.
The Tayloe Murphy Center forms alliances with communities in the Commonwealth of Virginia that are facing challenging economic conditions. In addition, the Tayloe Murphy Center conducts path-breaking and leadership-focused research projects that inform pressing policy and business issues central to the challenge of economic development and social progress.
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