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This week Darden Professor Jeanne Liedtka joins us to discuss her new course on Corporate Innovation and Design. The course gives students an opportunity to learn and apply a set of techniques around design thinking. In this week’s Darden news: “Welcome Aboard,” “Alumni Leaders Gather,” “Amazon to Visit Darden,” and “The Value Investing Conference.”
Melvyn Leffler and Jeffrey Legro are organizers of an upcoming conference at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia that will explore how policy-makers reacted after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the fall of the Twin Towers: When Walls Came Down: Berlin, 9/11 and U.S. Strategy in Uncertain Times.
Lavahn Hoh, Professor in the Department of Drama at the University of Virginia and Official Historian for the Ringling Brothers Museum joined Charlottesville Right Now to discuss the history of and the future of the circus.
Eric Lomazoff is a Fellow at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. He joins Coy to discuss
his dissertation research which focuses on the history of the U.S. Bank– the “back story” to the U.S. Federal Reserve.
University of Virginia Professor C. Brian Kelly and Ingrid Smyer-Kelly are co-authors of the recently published “Best Little Stories from the Life and Times of Winston Churchill.” The Kellys’ book won an honorable mention in the London Festival of Books last December and was praised by a reviewer for the international Churchill Centre’s quarterly publication “Finest Hour.” On Friday, October 9, 2009, the Kellys spoke to the Jefferson Literary and Debating Society on “Anecdotally Speaking: The Life and Times of Winston Churchill” as part of the Jefferson Society’s Fall Speaker Series.
The Churchill book is the ninth in the Best Little Stories series of historical books produced by the husband-and-wife writing team. They began in 1989 by self-publishing Best Little Stories from World War II. Two more self-published anecdotal histories soon followed, one on the history of the White House and one on the Civil War. Each book features a section by Mrs. Smyer-Kelly on the women of the historical period.
Mr. Kelly was a newspaper reporter for 20 years and now teaches news writing at the University of Virginia. Mrs. Smyer-Kelly is a former freelance writer for newspapers. In recent years she has served on the board of the Lewis and Clark Exploratory Center of Virginia in Charlottesville and as a member of the city’s Historical Resources Committee
The third speaker in the Jefferson Society’s Fall 2009 Speaker Series was Professor Kenneth Elzinga. On Friday, September 18, Professor Elzinga spoke on the topic, “Some Unconventional Principles of Leadership.”
Kenneth G. Elzinga is the Robert C. Taylor Chair in Economics at the University of Virginia, and has been a member of the faculty since 1967. Mr. Elzinga has received many distinguished awards, including the Thomas Jefferson Award, the highest honor the University of Virginia accords its faculty. Each fall Mr. Elzinga teaches the largest class offered at the University of Virginia, introductory economics.
Mr. Elzinga’s major research interest is antitrust economics, especially pricing strategy and market definition. He has testified in several precedent-setting antitrust cases. He is a former Fellow in Law and Economics as the University of Chicago and a Thomas Jefferson Visiting Scholar at Cambridge University. Mr. Elzinga is the author of more than seventy academic publications.
He also is known for three mystery novels, co-authored with William Breit under the pen name Marshall Jevons, in which the protagonist employs economic analysis to solve the crime.
In the headlines: “An A Plus from the Princeton Review,” “Darden’s Academical Village,” “Getting to Know the Leaders,” and “The Darden Market Returns.” In place of our usual interview segment, we take you to Darden’s Dawali Celebration. Dawali, the Festival of Lights, is a major holiday in India.
David Carr is a 1950 graduate of the University of Virginia and a native of Albemarle County. He joins Coy to share his memories of life as a Virginia student in the 1940s.
University of Virginia Professor of Astronomy, Ed Murphy , joined Charlottesville Right Now to discuss how the economy is effecting space exploration, the latest on the space station, water on the moon, and the Messenger mission to Mercury.
This week’s podcast is dedicated to the Darden Global Business Experience (GBE) with El Instituto Panamericano de Alta Direcciun de Empresa or, in English, the IPADE Business School in Mexico. IPADE’s Director of International Affairs, Beatriz Guzman, joins us to give some background on the School and their partnership in the Darden GBE.
Brendan Green is a doctoral candidate at MIT and a fellow with the GAGE Program at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs . Brenda discusses the research he has conducted on American foreign policy throughout the 20th century.