This advanced strategy seminar provides class participants with an integrative framework and specific analytical tools for understanding how firms interact in the marketplace: within an industry, across industries, and beyond …
Leading with influence is a deep dive into the science and personal application of leadership, with a particular focus on facilitating ongoing leadership development and assessment beyond Darden. Leader development …
This course examines the benefits and shortcomings of markets as an institutional arrangement for improving social welfare, and it explores conditions under which government action helps direct better market outcomes. …
In today's data-driven business landscape, information about what consumers think, feel, and do is abundant and readily available, but the real challenge for managers and marketers lies in exercising the …
This course seeks to improve the investment decision process through the application of investment frameworks and fundamental analysis. Classes will typically feature "live cases" for which students use real-time data …
This course develops expertise in stewarding responsible public disclosure to external stakeholders through an analysis of the managerial decisions that drive both financial and non-financial communications. The focus of the …
The goals of this course are to help you think critically about how to build and maintain high quality relationships at work. In organizations, high quality relationships between people enable …
This course will provide students with an understanding of the theory and practice of investment decision making. The course is divided into three modules: asset allocation, manager selection, and market …
This course is intended to provide students with an understanding of the design and use of planning and control systems to facilitate the implementation of an organization's strategy. Many organizations …
The course focuses on capital raising in the United States and international markets and has as its ultimate goal a greater understanding of the capital acquisition process while it emphasizes …
This course will focus specifically on the AI driven transformation of marketing. This course provides an in-depth exploration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in marketing, combining theoretical frameworks with practical applications. …
New cases provide opportunities to learn how data science is affecting a variety of domains, from entrepreneurship and marketing to operations and finance. In this course, students will gain exposure …
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 …
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 …
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 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 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, …