This course focuses on two-party negotiations in a wide variety of settings ranging from simple buyer-seller bargains to complex, multi-issue strategic relationships. Most class sessions revolve around the results of …
This course is to give the students a set of tools that will enable them to think both critically and creatively. In the FY core there are many courses that …
A Darden Independent Study elective includes either case development or a research project to be conducted by an individual student under the direction of a faculty member. Students should secure …
This course is designed to give first year doctoral students an introduction to the academic discipline of business ethics. The course will include foundational texts from philosophy and business ethics. …
This course continues the conversations in Foundations of Business Ethics I, which is a prerequisite. Much of the focus will be on philosophy of science/social science/economics/ management as it applies …
This course is designed to introduce students to the foundational works in the social sciences that provide the basis for and inform the study of business strategy. It is geared …
This course will survey the field of entrepreneurship and introduce the students to the classic books and ideas in the literature. The course will use a seminar format and will …
This course will rigorously explore the classic works in entrepreneurship ¿ ranging from the history of ideas to seminal ideas propelling the field forward today. In the process students will …
This course is designed to understand and actively practice research design. This is not a research methods course. Instead, this course will introduce students to a wide variety of methods …
The purpose of this course is to give the doctoral students an introduction to and survey of modern philosophy of science, so that their research will be informed by philosophical …
This course introduces classical rational models of decision making, and contrasts these with experimental evidence on individual preferences, as well as successful descriptive models that predict how individuals make decisions. …
The purpose of this seminar is to provide a critical introduction to scholarly reading and writing concentrating on one portion of the foundations of management theory; namely, pragmatism and stakeholder …
This course is designed to introduce students to the strategy literature and the research approaches that strategy research uses. We will explore how to frame a research problem and develop …
An independent study course is a faculty supervised study in which students explore a specific topic in the area of business administration.
The Competitive Dynamics Doctoral Seminar is designed to introduce students to the competitive dynamics (CD) literature and to train them in a programmatic approach to conducting research within this subfield …
Dynamic Programming provides a set of general normative methods for making sequential decisions under uncertainty. While there are no formal prerequisites for the course, some level of exposure to optimization, …
This course has two main functions: first to give doctoral students exposure to experimental methods and second to help them understand the current theories and research in moral psychology.
Management scholarship ¿ particularly economics and strategic management - has historically been hesitant to include explicit reference to values, norms, and ethics in much of its theorizing. This course will …
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Pedagogy & Higher Administration is a seminar for doctoral students focused on teaching and learning processes in higher education. The course addresses issues such as what makes a great teacher, …