This course will introduce a strategic, resource-based approach to talent mgmt, which features generative practices that systematically bring out the best in people at work. We will focus on three core talent mgmt practices; alignment, engagement, and development. Through multimedia case studies and accompanying readings, students will examine how these interrelated practices help people "get connected" to work

In this course, students will explore marketing challenges and opportunities in several major areas of healthcare, examine similarities and differences between marketing in healthcare and in other sectors, and learn to apply traditional marketing strategy and tactics in novel ways that embrace the differences that exist between the marketing of health and care and in other sectors.

Students who seek careers in investment banking, venture capital, corporate finance, and management consulting will find this course of interest. Although students pursuing these career paths do not need tax expertise, they do need to be able to evaluate critically when to call in the tax experts and what the tax experts are telling them. Therefore this course provides a general understanding of the basic tax consequences of fundamental restructuring strategies and a framework for evaluating the priority that taxes have in these strategies. The course requires students to analyze how tax consequences affect the value of different strategies to the buyer and seller. Understanding the effect of taxes on the value of a deal to the buyer and seller prepares future financial executives and strategic advisors to make better decisions and to be more effective negotiators. Although the course focuses on the tax consequences of restructuring strategies and their valuation implications, it also covers the nontax advantages and disadvantages of these strategies. Most of the course covers U.S. federal income tax issues of restructuring of C corporations, but it also will address pass-through entities. Other topics will be entity formation, taxable asset and stock acquisitions, tax-free asset and stock reorganizations, and divestitures and liquidations. The principal modes of instruction are cases, readings, articles, exercises, and a group project that allows students to investigate a specific deal of personal interest. Prerequisites: Restricted to Darden students.

Organizations, whether large or small, invest significant amounts of money in sourcing goods and services from their suppliers. This course explores how sourcing can help organizations to improve their performance on multiple dimensions and differentiate themselves from their competitors, ultimately leading to sustained competitive advantage.

Managerial Finance reinforces and builds on the material covered in the core finance course, Financial Management and Policies, and is considered a capstone finance course for those seeking careers in fields outside of finance, such as general management, consulting, marketing, operations, or entrepreneurship. The course is designed to solidify core concepts and skills in financial management and maintains a tone that makes it approachable to all.

This course explores the financial decisions of firms facing exchange related risks in global capital and product markets. This course examines capital allocation and raising activities in international settings with particular attention to transaction and economic exposure, financial and operating hedging activities, capital budgeting analytics, and global capital sourcing.

This course is about "financial civics," or how the markets, institutions, and instruments in finance have interacted with the public will ("democracy") and its instrument, the regulatory establishment. Finance and democracy have stimulated each other on a recurring basis over the centuries, and this stimulus provokes a response.

The course will explore several of these issues and markets in detail and students will be gaining insight on how global markets function, what kinds of factors impact them, who the key players are, and what their role is. The course will also seek to explore sector/industry specific learnings in areas such as, for example, real estate, shipping, hedge funds, and private equity.

We live in an increasingly globalized world, yet globalization is under attack in many countries. Has globalization gone too far? There is Brexit, rising economic nationalism in Europe and the United States, and we hear calls for far-reaching protectionism against Mexico and China by the Trump administration. It is time to reconsider the institutions of globalization (WTO, IMF, WB) and the role that international trade, migration, outsourcing

Immense amounts, granularity of data, the pervasiveness and speed of computing power with mobility make analytics a competitive advantage. Through dialog & conversations will take a closer look at organizations seeking enhanced ability to transform data into actionable insights. Topics intended to span data science, artificial intelligence, machine learning, digitalization, analytics processes & methods, probabilistic forecasting models, and ops research.