There have been some interesting perspectives in my Community of WE (Women Executives) discussion groups on both Facebook and Linkedin on the topic of Can Women Have it All? The comments have spanned everything from “Yes, look at Marissa Meyer, the new Yahoo! CEO who just had a baby” to “Are they expected to want ...
by Katherine Murphy, graduate student, Darden School of Business Marissa Mayer was recently announced as Yahoo’s new CEO. Yahoo selected the tech savvy former Google employee to take the reins of the struggling company. However, in the wake of this new hire, the press has focused on her pregnancy announcement over her strategic planning. It ...
I am a member of the Mount Zion First African Baptist Church in Charlottesville, and a faculty member of the Darden Business School at the University of Virginia. Both affiliations are relevant to a set of unusual circumstances I experienced this weekend. On Sunday I enthusiastically attended church service. On this day my enthusiasm was ...
BlackBerry may be in serious trouble. The most recent crisis started with an outage in Research in Motion (maker of the BlackBerry) messaging service to customers in the Middle East. Over a span of three days the outage traversed the globe with the most recent disruption to service in North and South America on Wednesday. ...
A few days ago Netflix CEO, Reed Hastings, sent out a mass corporate apology for errors in judgment as the company embarked on a major change initiative. Stating at the outset of his apology by blog, “I messed up . . . I owe you an explanation.” Hastings went on to describe the firm’s rationale ...
While the rest of the country ponders the jury’s decision to acquit Casey Anthony of the murder and abuse of her daughter Caylee, I have perhaps a different interest in the case. One that is less focused on the “justness” of the verdict, and more focused on providing a rationale for why jurors seem to ...
In Part I of this series, I introduced you to the innovative new concept for Darden’s graduate students’ Capstone class, that not only highlighted the art and skill of running a business, but also gave back to local Charlottesville charities. The business ideas were uncovered in the final presentations, and they were certainly unique and ...
