(By Ed Hess, professor of business administration and Batten Institute Executive-in-Residence at U.Va.’s Darden School of Business)In the next decade, Smart Machines will displace many workers in many industries including logistics, construction, distribution, sales, retail, services and even the jobs of highly trained professionals. If what you do is highly repetitive, reasonably predictable, involves limited choices or involves linear processes, you are at risk. Jobs with a low risk of displacement are those that require complex critical thinking, creativity, innovative thinking, high ...
The University of Virginia announced today that the employment numbers from the McIntire School of Commerce are encouraging for graduates, as the economy picks up speed. As an example, at hand, the Commerce School confirms that approximately 87 percent of its undergraduate students have now accepted or received an offer they intend to accept for full-time employment, with an average base salary of $70,787, which is up 10 percent from last year's average.
McGuireWoods Consulting Executive Vice President Mark Bowles was recently appointed to the University of Virginia Board of Visitors by Governor Terry McAuliffe. Bowles replaces Dr. Edward Miller, a former faculty member who stepped down before the end of his term, and will begin his term on June 30.
Here’s a new online collection that will be of interest to many of you. It was announced by the Rare Book School based at the University of Virginia on Tuesday.
Led by Georgia State University, researchers have developed the first robust and noninvasive detection of early stage liver cancer and liver metastases, in addition to other liver diseases, such as cirrhosis and liver fibrosis. To more effectively detect cancerous tumors at an early stage, researchers from Georgia State, in collaboration with researchers from Emory University, Georgia Tech, the University of Georgia and the University of Virginia, have developed a new class of protein-based contrast agents (PRCAs) and an imaging methodology that provides robust results for the early detection ...
(By Siva Vaidhyanathan, the Robertson Professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia) On the morning of May 13, 2015, the Smithsonian National Museum of American History hosted a panel discussion called “Innovation Echo: Tomorrow’s Brightest Days.” The purpose of the panel was to inspire or guide everyone to innovate, regardless of the resources at one’s disposal.
Attacks are undermining India's global standing, the stability of its democracy and its role in upcoming climate talks, experts say. William Antholis, an expert in climate change, international negotiations and development at the University of Virginia, said it is "hard to read what is happening" in India.
Former Florida governor and expected presidential candidate Jeb Bush sought to end a political controversy Thursday over the Iraq war. Bush said at a town hall event in Tempe, Arizona, that faced with the decision today, he would not have launched the invasion of Iraq carried out by his brother, former President George W. Bush, in 2003. Analysts said that Bush hopes now to close out the controversy with his latest comments. But University of Virginia analyst Larry Sabato said he was surprised by what he called the Bush stumble on Iraq this week.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Xi Jinping have been holding a number of interactions on terrorism. This time Beijing may actually mean it. Phil Potter, a terrorism policy expert at the University of Virginia, notes that "China is using shared concerns over terrorism as a tool for regional cooperation. This has been evident with the Shanghai Cooperation Organization." He argues Beijing sees this as an area in which two strategic rivals can share some common ground and "it is therefore something that China will happily put on the table."
The youngest example of one of the oldest objects in the universe may have been discovered by astronomers, who say it appears ready to hatch millions of stars.“We may be witnessing one of the most ancient and extreme modes of star formation in the universe,” lead author Kelsey Johnson, an astronomer at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, said in a statement.
The Ivy League is losing its historic lead on one of education’s most important playing fields: endowment investing. Over the last five years, the story is similar. The University of Virginia was tops and Swarthmore College, a small liberal arts school with Quaker roots, wasn’t far behind.
Many of the students graduating from the University of Virginia this weekend have already accepted jobs in the working world. Eighty-seven percent of students from the UVA McIntire School of Commerce have accepted full-time jobs, while the UVA School of Nursing says 75 percent of their soon-to-be graduates have employment lined up too. The Darden School of Business and the UVA Law School report more than 90 percent of 2015 grads have employment offers.
Occasional conflict in the workplace is inevitable, but whether those disagreements lead to a healthy resolution or a full-on fight is largely up to you, according to a recent paper in the Academy of Management Review. “We decided to look at not what people fight about, but how they fight,” said Kristin Behfar, one of the authors of the paper. Behfar, an associate business administration professor at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, added that how someone expresses opposition leads to a chain reaction. “It’s more predictive of conf...
Attacks are undermining India's global standing, the stability of its democracy and its role in upcoming climate talks, experts say. William Antholis, an expert in climate change, international negotiations and development at the University of Virginia, said it is "hard to read what is happening" in India.
The U.S. government’s plan to extract criminal pleas from five global banks related to currency manipulation, along with penalties of billions of dollars, sounds harsh. It may also, say some former regulators and prosecutors, have little bite. The question is whether the latest guilty pleas will keep financial institutions from committing future crimes. The settlements, while momentous, will likely leave unanswered questions, said Brandon Garrett, a law professor at the University of Virginia who studies corporate crime enforcement.
Yesterday's expected big guilty pleas by five banks to foreign exchange rigging charges seem to have been pushed back for another week. "Part of the reason for the delay is that banks are still trying to lock down waivers" for the collateral consequences of their guilty pleas, because you get those waivers by going to a bunch of regulators and begging for them, and that is a fairly arbitrary process: “Now that bank guilty pleas are becoming more common there is a real need for much clearer rules on the regulatory consequences of bank convictions,” ...
Scientists recently reported that they had identified an important new potential driver of aging, a finding that could have vast implications for human longevity and the treatment of diseases such as cancer, diabetes and Alzheimer’s. “This is a beautiful example of how genomics, human stem cells and the new gene-editing technologies conjoin to provide major insights into human disease,” said Rick Horwitz, executive director of the Allen Institute for Cell Science, who is on leave from his position as a professor at the University of Virginia. “This is an early example o...
(By Carolyn Long Engelhard is the director of the Health Policy Program at the University of Virginia School of Medicine's Department of Public Health Sciences.) Just a few weeks ago, the Supreme Court decided not to hear Coons v. Lew, a case that challenged the constitutionality of the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB), a 15-member panel of healthcare experts authorized under the 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA). IPAB's mission is to make cost-cutting recommendations for the Medicare program whenever its annual spending exceeds a target growth rate of 3 percent. ...
One of the most interesting findings on women and leadership, from the work of Amalia Miller at the University of Virginia, is the evidence that women are more likely to get promoted in organisations where senior executives are female. Women seem to get more out of other women. The productivity of female workers has been shown to increase under female managers and leaders.