The focus of the course is to learn to use well-researched theories about strategy, innovation, and management to understand why things happen the way they do in businesses, and to …
This course is to serve as a capstone for the students in the MBA/MED program. In addition, it will be open to any student who is interested in the education …
This seminar on leadership and management examines the life work of Thomas Jefferson by studying the many roles he played in the founding of our country. The basic scheme of …
This course is based on a pioneering new approach-using pre-scripting and rehearsal-to prepare business managers/leaders for values-driven decision-making and action. Rather than simply talking about these difficult decisions and conversations, …
This course will address the various requirements for operating in a crisis & leading in uncertainty. The course will help students frame uncertainty & how to bound the various uncertainties …
Many of our most successful entrepreneurial companies have been founded and significantly influenced by professional venture-capital firms. This course focuses on the professional world of venture capitalists and how venture …
GEMstone is a second-year capstone course that builds on the monetary and financial electives offered in the GEM area, specifically Economics of Money and Banking (EMB) and Global Financial Markets …
This is a business-world-focused course on game theory: the mathematical modeling of strategic interaction among rational (and irrational) actors. Some of the common applications covered in the course include competition …
This course is designed to provide a forum for student leaders to talk about the challenges and rewards of leadership at Darden. Enrolling students should have a clear commitment to …
In this course students will be immersed in real time cases of multinational companies that are challenged with communicating the rationale and imperatives behind their strategic renewal, reset, or total …
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. …
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 …
The objective of the course is to present a disciplined, valuation based process for security analysis. The course will focus on melding theory and practice using examples across industries and …
In recent years, private market investing including real estate has risen strongly. Real Estate is linked closely with the fields of finance and business & leads to a specialized career. …
Sports contexts provide an excellent vehicle by which to study how to use analytics as part of a leader's decision-making toolkit. How, for example, do you evaluate talent analytically, and …
Situations requiring action vary in complexity and scope. The decision settings include a rich variety of dilemmas general managers inevitably face. This course focuses on general managers and the requirement …
This course is open to students who have accepted summer employment in a country other than that of their permanent residence. It allows students to use their summer-employment experience as …
The purpose of this course is to build leadership skills and ethical analysis skills by reading, discussing, and performing dramatic scenes from great plays. The scenes will be chosen for …
This course analyzes and applies tools and techniques to accounting data in order to derive measurements that aid in corporate valuation. Students will first develop a deeper understanding of accounting …
This course adopts the perspective of a CFO of a publicly held corporation as the strategic partner to the CEO with an emphasis on the role of financial analysis in …