This course will cover the rapidly-expanding world of impact investing, focusing on the fundamentals underlying investment strategies for funds (and, to a lesser extent, companies) seeking to both create profit …
As the business climate becomes increasingly competitive, leaders need to know how to be creative and how to harness, control, and maximize the creative potential of the people they lead. …
Designed for students to gain experience in managing an investment portfolio which has a specific investment mandate to establish goals, methods to build a portfolio, select investments, track & report …
Each seminar is a course of study for students with special interests in business administration topics not currently included in the normal course offerings of the MBA Program. The seminar …
Provides students with exposure to practical matters faced by operators of smaller enterprises. Whether starting or acquiring a small enterprise, entrepreneurs will be better prepared having been introduced to real-world …
We will explore how businesses and government entities are working separately and together to solve complex societal issues such food and water mgmt, health care, urban planning and farming, and …
In the Darden Capital Management (DCM) course students will test their ability to value a stock and evaluate the appropriateness of an investment thesis for inclusion in a portfolio. The …
This Darden Worldwide Course aims to develop a deeper understanding of a particular global business environment, what it takes to successfully enter and understand new business contexts, and how to …
This course explores the relationship between institutions, economic growth and business environments in fast growing economies. It adopts the view that market development and institutional reform are the fundamental forces …
The purpose of this course is to develop a deeper understanding of the capabilities required to integrate team management, leadership through pedagogy and engagement with social challenges. This course expands …
This Darden PREP course, in partnership with Resilience Education, engages MBA students in transforming the way the business community understands incarceration and its societal impact. Students will work in teams …
This course is an exploration of Media and Entertainment Businesses including film, broadcasting, music, and game. Students will explore field of media and entertainment from many different perspectives in marketing …
This course examines how interpersonal processes, organizational contexts, and structural characteristics of teams influence their performance and productivity. The goal of the course is to provide students with a knowledge …
This course targets those students who intend to work in consumer marketing, advertising, consulting, or retailing. There are four modules in the course: Marketing Mix and Budgeting Decisions, Branding, Price …
The complete course in project management will include Monte Carlo simulation for project risk analysis within project planning, scoping, and network analysis. The critical path method will be employed. Topics …
This course examines the nature and influence of trading in financial markets. Trading is a repeated-play game that usually entails making numerous decisions under conditions of uncertainty. In the course, …
The strategic and tactical problems of managing the operations function in the service environment are examined in this course. Topics include capacity management, Lean thinking, the role of operations in …
This course is designed to provide students with a practical understanding of the merger and acquisition marketplace, addressing such topics as why companies grow through acquisitions, how acquisition or merger …
Recent droughts and the soaring food prices they trigger underscore that freshwater scarcity will be a major challenge in the 21st century. In spite of reports about imminent water crises, …
This course is based on the assumption that nonprofit organizations benefit individuals and society in numerous ways. It is designed to introduce students to the scope and the diversity of …