Virginia - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Oct 1998
News

Short Takes

popular among youths (Marlboro, Newport, Camel, Kool, and Winston) with that of brands smoked almost exclusively by adults (Salem, Virginia Slims, Benson & Hedges, Parliament, Merit, Capri, and Kent) in 39 of the nation's... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

Profile

Malcolm Little

As the oldest of six kids who grew up together in Richmond, Virginia, Malcolm Little found the University of Virginia to be "a strong state school – and a good one for our family economically." UVA proved even stronger when,... View Details

10 Apr 2012
News

A Winning Formula

others—that he finds in northern Virginia and Washington DC. Because the area is not as tech-focused or as awash in VC funding as Silicon Valley, he said, “Our entrepreneurs have to be scrappier.” Ramos, who grew up in Drexel Hill,... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

18 Nov 2002
Research & Ideas

Enterprising Women—a History

Museum of our National Heritage in Lexington, Massachusetts and to explore the question of how this exhibit changes our understanding of women's roles in American economic history. Virginia G. Drachman, a professor of history at Tufts... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard

01 Jun 2010
News

A Remarkable Life Story

with the strong backing of Dean George P. Baker. The Road to Someplace Better charts Lambert’s life from her humble upbringing on a Virginia farm (which didn’t get electricity until she was eight) to her founding of Centennial One Inc., a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Professional Services

01 Dec 2022
News

Program Catalyzes New Streams of Research

years. He was previously a fellow with Stanford’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. Broderick Turner, Assistant Professor of Marketing, Pamplin College of Business, Virginia Tech, and Cofounder, Technology, Race and... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

28 May 2019
News

Broken Link

connection makes. She’s the executive director of administrative services at the Rappahannock County Public Schools, a rural school district in Virginia that was used to slow internet and frequent outages that interrupted everything from... View Details

Keywords: Nicole Torres; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Jan 2004
News

A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977

a career as a professor. He started a Ph.D. program in medieval and Renaissance history at the University of Virginia before leaving to enlist in the U.S. Navy. After several years of running grocery and specialty stores at a U.S. base... View Details

19 Feb 2020
News

Capitol Ideas to Combat Climate Change

type of widespread and growing interest in climate change mitigation that Congressman Donald S. Beyer of Virginia has been hoping to see. The co-chair of the New Democrat Coalition’s Climate Change Task Force, Beyer has made the... View Details

Keywords: April White; photos by Jack Conroy

01 Sep 2010
News

RX for Change

Appointed CEO of Seattle-based Virginia Mason in 2000, Kaplan steps into a low-morale environment of increasing competition from area hospitals and decreasing revenues. In 1998 and 1999, the medical center lost many millions of dollars,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Health, Social Assistance; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

09 Jun 2017
News

Curating the Cuisine of Southwest China

sandwich? It didn't taste very good, to be honest. But after that, a few years later, my father-in-law sent me an entire leg of ham in the mail, and it's very good. I asked him, what sort of ham was that? He told me, it's Virginia ham.... View Details

29 Jun 2010
First Look

First Look: June 29

Gary Kaplan became CEO of the Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle, Washington. The hospital was facing significant challenges: it was losing money for the first time in its history, staff morale had plummeted, and area hospitals... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2012
News

Alumni Book Briefs

Channel by Connie Sage (University of Virginia Press) Among his many accomplishments, the late Frank Batten Sr. (MBA 1952) created the Weather Channel in 1982, which became the largest private weather company in the world and an American... View Details

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

2001
Working Paper

Capturing the Elusive 'Value in Diversity' Effect: Individuation, Self-Verification and Performance in Small Groups

By: William B. Swann Jr., Virginia S. Y. Kwan, Jeffrey Polzer and Laurie P. Milton

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Kanwaljit Bakshi

the University of Virginia with a degree in psychology, "I thought I was going to go to Peace Corps, but for family reasons I wanted to stay in the United States," Brochu says. "So I thought, 'If I'm going to stay in the... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

05 Jun 2020
Blog Post

Developing Black Talent for Leadership

HBCU liberal arts institution in Alabama, told CNN that while the $1.4 billion and other aid for higher education earmarked by Congess and approved by the President was "fantastic," it was only a first step in putting the fire out. "Things still smolder," he said.... View Details

Web

Data: The Ever-Expanding Frontier - Race, Gender & Equity

Just Digital Future Data: The Ever-Expanding Frontier Automating Inequality By: Virginia Eubanks 2018 Algorithms of Oppression By: Safiya Umoja Noble 2018 Race After Technology By: Ruha Benjamin 2019 In our Just Digital Future interview... View Details

10 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Prospective Students Steer Clear of Schools Rocked by Scandal

charges were later dropped; and a 2014 University of Virginia story of a group sexual assault on campus, although the veracity of the piece was later called into question, and the story retracted. One bright spot in the wake of campus... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education

January 2024 (Revised April 2024)
Teaching Note

Somatus: Value-Based Kidney Care (A) & (B)

By: Ariel D. Stern, Robert S. Huckman and Sarah Mehta

This teaching note accompanies case no. 622-009 and 622-045 (Somatus: Value-Based Kidney Care, A and B). View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Disruption; Entrepreneurship; Health Care and Treatment; Health Disorders; Medical Specialties; Innovation and Invention; Disruptive Innovation; Management; Business Strategy; Value Creation; Health Industry; United States; Virginia