• GBUS 8673

    Managing Economic Uncertainty
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    Fall 2025

    In today's rapidly evolving world, business leaders face unprecedented levels of uncertainty. From geopolitical tensions and supply chain interruptions to climate change and fluctuating policy landscapes, navigating uncertainty requires agility, Bayesian thinking, and effective strategies. This course will equip students with the analytical tools and strategic frameworks necessary to transform uncertainty into a competitive edge.

  • GBUS 8695

    Managing Social Impact
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    Spring 2026

    This course will introduce students to alternate paradigms of thought regarding the nature and meaning of economics, work, and organizing. Adopting a feminist lens on the study of business will encourage students to consider how gender, race, class, and other categories of social difference work to structure power and privilege in economic contexts, as well as to imagine alternative possibilities.

  • GBUS 8697

    Global Client Projects I
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    Fall 2025

    Provide an opportunity for students to describe a specific business problem clearly, succinctly, and in a manner that fosters reflection, discussion, and learning. Challenge students to analyze and resolve an unstructured managerial problem and offer them an opportunity to work closely with a faculty member. Produce a case study of quality, focus suitable for inclusion in the MBA curriculum, together with a written analysis.

  • GBUS 8698

    Global Client Projects II
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    Spring 2025

    Provide an opportunity for students to describe a specific business problem clearly, succinctly, and in a manner that fosters reflection, discussion, and learning. Challenge students to analyze and resolve an unstructured managerial problem and offer them an opportunity to work closely with a faculty member. Produce a case study of quality, focus suitable for inclusion in the MBA curriculum, together with a written analysis.

  • GBUS 8699

    Global Client Projects III
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    Spring 2026

    Provide an opportunity for students to describe a specific business problem clearly, succinctly, and in a manner that fosters reflection, discussion, and learning. Challenge students to analyze and resolve an unstructured managerial problem and offer them an opportunity to work closely with a faculty member. Produce a case study of quality, focus suitable for inclusion in the MBA curriculum, together with a written analysis.

  • GBUS 8700

    Darden Venturing Project
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    Spring 2024

    This course is intended to provide students with an opportunity to work closely with a faculty adviser to produce a case study of a real business situation. Students may already have a case setting in mind or may call upon their faculty supervisor for an introduction to the setting for a case.

  • GBUS 8701

    Leading Strategic Change
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    Spring 2026

    This course focuses on the leadership qualities that are necessary to successfully design and implement strategic change and how being involved in the active leadership process requires individuals to be willing to define and declare themselves in strategic ways. The course is an elective and follows the format of the Leading Strategic Change course. It puts its emphasis on the need for students to think on personal, professional, and enterprise levels and to apply this thinking to the critical issues of leading and managing individual and organizational change. It is essential that students studying for an MBA develop a rich appreciation for the implications of personal and organizational change. Leadership is a personal declaration and as such is the essence of change. The principal modes of instruction are cases, lectures, and readings.

  • GBUS 8706

    Leadership, Diversity and Leveraging Difference
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    Spring 2026

    The course consists of a case and text-based learning experience that focuses on the leadership challenges involved in leveraging diversity. Students will learn how leaders must have the basic skills and the ability and willingness to recognize diversity and then leverage it through invitation, inclusion, and inspiration.

  • GBUS 8707

    Leadership Coaching
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    Spring 2025

    Today's leaders not only experience change, but are called upon to change themselves and the organizations in which they work. Leading through individual and organizational change can be challenging, but leaders do not have to face these challenges alone. In this course, you are invited to engage with a leadership coach in a creative and thought-provoking process that inspires you to reach your full potential.

  • GBUS 8718

    Private Equity
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    Fall 2025

    The course will cover a wide range of financial situations that arise during private equity transactions. The core objective of the class is to understand how risk, stage of development, and nature of the financed company affect the terms and forms of financing. We will focus on the investment phase of the private equity cycle and examine the investment strategy, management, valuation, and structure of investees.