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 have discovered that having a great strategy is not enough if the right structures and processes are not in place to implement that strategy.

The course offers a means for students to gain direct exposure to the world of practical affairs by engaging Darden alumni with expertise in technology and operations management. It will expose students to a range of emerging issues and topics in technology management and operations management and will be organized around four topic areas to enable in-depth discussions over multiple class sessions.Prerequisites: Restricted to Darden students.

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 capital raising in public markets. The course covers the institutional process of security issuance, the formal rules and regulations as well as the informal norms and practices of the marketplace. Issuance in public security markets entails strict adherence to these rules and regulations that govern the marketplace. While these rules place more limitations on managers' actions than private placements, the United States and the developed world's capital markets offer firms the broadest array of possible funding sources at the lowest cost. Students will survey a number of commonly used financing arrangements, such as follow-on equity issues, initial public offerings, ADRs, and several forms of straight and convertible debt. The course targets students with professional interests in corporate finance, commercial and investment banking, financial services, and management consulting.

Investors are increasingly interested in making investments that are consistent with their individual environmental, social and governance (ESG) goals. This course explores how public capital markets are designed and regulated so that these investor goals can be achieved with some assurance that firms will take desirable action.

To hone their skills for working with others successfully in business, students in this course will use recent research on cognition as well as experiential activities in group decision making to help students develop strategies to avoid mistakes and improve collaboration and thrive in ambiguous situations.

In this course, students study the tools of microeconomics that shed light on the structural industry characteristics and global and local forces that afford an understanding of economic change at the industry level. These tools are applied to rapidly changing industries characterized by high levels of innovation, network economic effects, important roles of information and information asymmetry, and other complex forces.

The focus of this course is on design thinking, a particular problem-solving approach that emphasizes customer empathy, invention, optionality, and iteration as its core components. Design thinking is concerned with the creative side of strategic thinking and complements the more analytical strategic orientation that emphasizes quantitative methodologies, evaluation frameworks, and the assessment of a single solution to a strategic problem.

This is a survey course on the institutions and products that make up the capital markets. Major themes in the course include financial innovation and its role in making the financial markets and the economy more efficient. An emphasis is placed on the redistribution of risk among market participants and the reduction in the spread between what borrowers pay and what lenders receive. The course is designed as a broad overview and is not a technical course. It is valuable not only for students interested in finance but also for those with general management aspirations.

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. Students will study the history and processes of AI, including machine learning and deep learning, and how these technologies can be leveraged through the AI Marketing Canvas for strategic planning.

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 to the concepts and tools used by managers to create disruptive business models that leverage big data.