This course looks at the healthcare industry from the standpoint of the manager or entrepreneur who seeks to understand the fundamental challenges now occurring. Prerequisites: Restricted to Darden Students.

Learn about the countries that are considered as Emerging Markets, the role that they all play in the actual globalized world and their impact in the world's economy. Enrich the interaction with other international and Mexican MBA students. Explore Mexico as an Emerging Markets and experience the Mexican culture It includes classes conducted by IPADE professors on the Mexican economic, political and social environments.

The digital marketing course prepares students for the variety of ways interactive communication and positioning may be part of their future careers whether they are CMOs thinking strategically or CEOs asking the right questions of an ad agency. Interactive technology is driven by innovation, making it difficult to study one text or conclude that one static model works best.

This seminar invites students to explore the possibilities of human organization and assess their core values, assumptions, beliefs, and expectations about work. The course format is a one-week exploration of the role work plays in the lives of individuals and communities around the globe. It is designed to prompt students to begin a lifelong quest for learning about who they are and how best to perform and lead others to success in an ever-changing business climate. By coupling a general management perspective on current workplace issues and trends with each student's sense of self, the course is about discovering what work can be at both the individual and the organizational levels. Through large and small group discussions of cases and readings, various experiential activities, body awareness and movement exercises, journaling and free writing, guided meditation, and individual reflection, each student will have the opportunity to discover what is true for them and move forward with that knowledge. Before the start of the course, each student is required to choose, read, and summarize a book that is relevant to the course. Prerequisites: Restricted to Darden students.

This course introduces students to analytical techniques and terminology specific to the real estate industry. The real estate industry includes a broad range of real estate products, and each market for these products is unique. Students will consider such topics as an historical overview of the industry, techniques of financial analysis and financing alternatives, commercial and residential development, current concepts of real estate development, cap rates, appraisal methods, commercial products such as office buildings and retail, residential products such as apartments and houses, leasing, and property management. The course should appeal to a broad array of students especially those considering careers in real estate or who expect to be involved in real estate transactions. For those students with no prior experience in real estate but who want to enter the field, the course, with its exposure to the industry nomenclature, will be of tremendous value in the job search. The principal modes of instruction include readings, cases, and speakers from the industry.

This course focuses on common pricing problems that face management in wide variety of industries. Students will learn the mathematical, economic, and psychological tools that allow managers to analyze a situation and recommend an appropriate pricing strategy. In some cases, most notably consumer packaged goods, this will require the analysis of large (scanner) data sets that allow students to model the relationship between regular prices.

The European Union (EU) is the second largest economy in the world after the United States and the second largest trading partner of the United States. The US and EU are each other's largest export markets. The EURO is the second most traded international currency after the $US. This course uses cases and other materials to explore the fundamental differences and similarities between the EU and the US.

Digital technologies are influencing every facet of business including Operations. This course will comprise a mix of case studies & guest speakers to enable a deeper exploration of the impact of emerging technologies on the operations function. Designed for those pursuing careers in General Management, Operations, or Consulting, the course will start with a strategic perspective of pure-play models & digital transformations of traditional players.

Leading a marketing organization presents a unique set of leadership challenges, which every aspiring marketing leader will need to understand and manage as they navigate careers as leaders in the most dynamic function in the modern business enterprise -- marketing.

This course will use a mix of case studies and simulation to understand the sustainable operations practices within the agriculture, apparel, electronics, energy, healthcare, and pharmaceutical sectors. It will bring together concepts on supply chain integrity; responsible business conduct; supply chain security and transparency; national and international regulations and policies that impact global value chains.