Businesses are increasingly under pressure to show progress on environmental, social, & corporate governance issues in the name of sustainability. Understanding how judges & regulators think about these issues is key to understanding how firms behave. Will provide an overview of how corporate law and regulators like the SEC shape business' approach to sustainability & introduction to the key debates that will shape future laws & regulation.

A learning experience about the collaboration and competition among a diverse set of global institutions that interact in Washington, DC in the pursuit of economic prosperity and social well-being. Students will learn from leaders of a subset of multilateral institutions (World Bank, IMF, OAS), government agencies/ministries (both foreign and US), multinational corporations, think tanks, non-government organizations and other leaders.

The course offers a means for students to gain direct exposure to the world of practical affairs by engaging with senior executives leading organizations during uncertainty. The course will expose students to a range of emerging issues and topics and enterprises ranging from start-ups, funding providers, multinational companies and NGOs. The course will draw from the Dean's DC Fellows program for speakers.

This course focuses on two-party negotiations in a wide variety of settings ranging from simple buyer-seller bargains to complex, multi-issue strategic relationships. Most class sessions revolve around the results of negotiations between class members that are conducted prior to class, as preparation for the session. The results of these negotiations are displayed each day and provide an opportunity for explicit feedback on each student's negotiating performance. Class discussion reviews the wide variety of experiences in the specific negotiation and develops and tests hypotheses regarding effective behaviors, tactics, and strategies. The resulting ideas are reinforced and further developed through a series of weekly readings. Finally, the course offers several frameworks for codifying each student's negotiation toolkit and for describing each student's negotiation behavior.

This course is to give the students a set of tools that will enable them to think both critically and creatively. In the FY core there are many courses that encourage critical and creative thinking, but there is a whole field of study that can enhance what the students have learned to do via the Socratic Method in the core. The course will draw on both business and non-business disciplines for its concepts and ideas.

A Darden Independent Study elective includes either case development or a research project to be conducted by an individual student under the direction of a faculty member. Students should secure the agreement of a resident faculty member to supervise their independent study and assign the final grade that is to be based to a significant degree on written evidence of the individual student's accomplishment.

This course provides students with a doctoral-level introduction to the normative discourse of business ethics. We will read a variety of texts from classic philosophical works as well as contemporary counterparts who illustrate how these ideas are being used in recent research in business ethics. Prerequisites: Restricted to Darden students.

This course continues the conversations in Foundations of Business Ethics I, which is a prerequisite. Much of the focus will be on philosophy of science/social science/economics/ management as it applies to the academic discipline of business ethics. We will also focus on current cutting-edge conversations in the discipline. The course is open to all who have taken Foundations of Business Ethics I.

This course will survey the field of entrepreneurship and introduce the students to the classic books and ideas in the literature. The course will use a seminar format and will attempt to understand the meaning and content of the phenomenon of entrepreneurship, its processes and its consequences - for individuals and economies. Requirements include position papers on various topics and authors. Prerequisites: Restricted to Darden students.

This course is designed to understand and actively practice research design. This is not a research methods course. Instead, this course will introduce students to a wide variety of methods ranging from standard surveys and interviews to think-aloud protocols, experience sampling, conjoint analyses and more.