This course will cover the rapidly-expanding world of impact investing, focusing on the fundamentals underlying investment strategies for funds (and, to a lesser extent, companies) seeking to both create profit and generate social or environmental impact.

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 topics should be consistent with the objectives of the Second Year Program.

Provides students with exposure to practical matters faced by operators of smaller enterprises. Whether starting or acquiring a small enterprise, entrepreneurs will be better prepared having been introduced to real-world topics such as relationships with key service vendors (banking, legal, accounting), commercial leasing terms, employee benefit programs, state and local public policy, government procurement, commercial insurance, etc.

In the Darden Capital Management (DCM) course students will test their ability to value a stock and evaluate the appropriateness of an investment thesis for inclusion in a portfolio. The course prepares students in equity research, stock selection, and portfolio management in a real-world environment in which students manage funds from the Darden Endowment.

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 develop a mindset as a leader across different cultures and institutions. The course accomplishes this by immersing students on-site in a new context to study these issues through engagement with local executives, global and local companies and organizations, meeting with government and community leaders, exploring activities of cultural and historical significance, and meeting with peers.

This course explores the relationship between institutions, economic growth and business environments in fast growing economies. It adopts the view that market development and institutional reform are the fundamental forces driving long-run growth and near-term change in the global business environment. Provides a global view to students who want to work in substantially global industries and management positions.

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 students¿ foundational business knowledge as they take on the role of instructor and teach business cases through the Socratic method.

This Darden PREP course, in partnership with Resilience Education, engages MBA students in transforming the way the business community understands incarceration and its societal impact. Students will work in teams to address reentry and employment challenges of our students or work on a project that builds on the work of the Darden Prisoner Reentry Education Program (PREP) and Resilience Education (RE) more broad.

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 base and understanding of the mechanisms that set teams up for success, as well as the chance to practice designing, participating, and leading collaborative work. T

The complete course in project management will include Monte Carlo simulation for project risk analysis within project planning, scoping, and network analysis. The critical path method will be employed. Topics of resource allocation, project monitoring, and real options thinking will be included.