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The Haiti Humanitarian Air Bridge: Facilitating Aid

UVA Darden

Air transportation is often the most volatile and costly component of the supply chain — particularly when factoring in the need for protracted delivery of aid by air in complex emergencies requiring international assistance. million in transportation and logistics costs.

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Demystifying Decision-Making

UVA Darden

Betz, “A Domain-Specific Risk-Attitude Scale: Measuring Risk Perceptions and Risk Behaviors,” Journal of Behavioral Decision Making 15 (2002): 263–290, [link]. Senior Associate Dean for Professional Degree Programs; Altec Styslinger Foundation Bicentennial Professor of Business Administration. Weber, Ann-Renee Blais and Nancy E.

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Good Disruption: Distributed Energy Resources (DERs)

UVA Darden

This one-way generator-to-customer business model is shifting due to a rapid increase in DERs like rooftop solar and energy storage systems, capable of localized generation and transacting on the grid. He studies the role of innovation in helping a business succeed. Ben-Gurion University; M.Sc., London School of Economics; M.Res.,

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Words vs. Actions: Why Innovation Must Be Central to COP28 Discussions

UVA Darden

Critical Actions to Decarbonize: The Playbook Last December, UVA’s Darden School of Business, Miller Center for Public Affairs and Environmental Institute convened 25 leaders from the private and public sectors in the UVA Rotunda to discuss ways in which global decarbonization could be accelerated toward a net-zero goal by 2050.

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Employee Relations Specialist: Job Description, Salary & How To Become One

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You’re involved in shaping the company’s culture, leading large-scale employee relations initiatives, and possibly mentoring new specialists. Additionally, Zippia states that the highest-paying industries for Employee Relations Specialists are finance, manufacturing, healthcare, transportation, and retail.

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Is Silicon Valley the Next Detroit?

UVA Darden

Clearly, the primacy of data is creating scale advantages for the biggest tech players. 2 [link] (We exclude Tesla from the list since it is better categorized as a transportation or energy company.) He studies the role of innovation in helping a business succeed. Hard to say. 1 [link] accessed on 20 June 2023.

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Hiring Overlooked Talent May Help Ease the Worker Shortage

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Besides causing illness and death on a global scale, the pandemic also set off economic chaos that helped fuel the labor shortage. The labor shortage hit all businesses, but SMBs were hit the hardest in many cases. What are the labor shortage problems for SMBs? are working or actively looking for work, compared to 67.1%