This course is designed to provide the skills and perspectives MBA for Executives students need to advance their careers. There are two components: a highly individualized coaching experience and a series of cohort-based experiences intended to develop leadership skills. Prerequisites: Restricted to Darden Students

This course is designed to provide the skills and perspectives MBA for Executives students need to advance their careers. There are two components: a highly individualized coaching experience and a series of cohort-based experiences intended to develop leadership skills.

The purpose of this course is to develop the basic skills and context of business decisions that will provide a strong foundation for students at the start of the Executive MBA program. The course is multi-disciplinary in its approach and will focus on providing a framework and set of core skills in the context of the types of business decisions that the students will face throughout the program.

A "deeper dive" into the strategy concepts introduced in the first year Strategy course, with an orientation towards the practice of consulting, translating analysis into recommendations. Heavy emphasis on problem definition & hypothesis testing in the first half. In the second half, explore effective strategies for articulating the findings & recommendations from strategic analyses, both verbally & through slides, spreadsheets, & graphics.

Today's students likely have an incomplete awareness of the crisis. More broadly, present and future policymakers risk repeating history as the memory of the 2008 crisis fades. It is important that the rising generation of leaders appreciate the causes and consequences of this crisis in anticipation of future crises. Such historical familiarity will be important for the development of leaders in government, business, NGOs, and households.

Course needed to confirm students' exchange program of study.

Course needed to confirm students' exchange program of study.

This course aims to foster an ambicultural or both-and perspective that will benefit participants professional and personal endeavors. Ambicultural organizations, managers, and strategists transcend contradictions by embracing the best of different cultures and practices while avoiding the worst. Integrating opposing managerial concepts and practices can lead to fresh ways of thinking in the new global reality and inform managers.

This course is intended for students who are interested in gaining a deeper understanding of new trends in the marketplace but most importantly for those aspiring to change consumer behavior. It is targeted to students interested in careers in marketing in broad terms, from consumer goods to nonprofit management to technology.

Exploration of the theoretical and conceptual foundations of corporate governance alongside contemporary issues and debates. Although the principal focus of this course is on the strategic role of corporate governance, the course materials and class discussions will reflect the fact that the study of corporate governance is a wide-ranging field that builds upon organizational behavior, ethics, law, finance, accounting, and other disciplines.