The Darden Report Summer 2019

THE DARDEN REPORT

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA DARDEN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS SUMMER 2019

LETTER FROM THE DEAN

THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE

Data science is being used to predict everything from potential crimes to Yelp reviews, and a Darden professor is leading the practice of predictive modeling.

BY MICHAEL BLANDING

FROM FIELD TO CLASSROOM

Accounting Expert Justin Hopkins’ Early Experience in the Peace Corps Foreshadowed a Future Role Orchestrating Darden’s Case Method

BY DAVE HENDRICK PHOTO: MATT EICH

REUNION WEEKEND

26–28 APRIL 2019

ALUMNI PROFILE

LIZ LYNCH (MBA ’84)

Leadership: It Runs in the Family