The purpose of this course is to equip students to be the type of managers who understand government processes, are politically aware, are mindful of the interaction between media, government, and business and appreciate how business can gain strategic advantage by monitoring and working with government at all levels. The course will prepare students to meet these managerial requirements and to participate in complex decisions when changing laws, regulations, and other governmental factors that have major long-term implications. In addition to case situations and readings on current issues, selected speakers from business and government will add their expertise.

In today's data-driven business landscape, information about what consumers think, feel, and do is abundant and readily available, but the real challenge for managers and marketers lies in exercising the right judgment to effectively utilize it. This course aims to help Darden students develop these essential skills for data intuition and sense-making, without needing to be an expert on the technical level.

This course aims to answer a single question: how do gender norms influence the trajectory of one's career as well as the pursuit and attainment of leadership positions? This course seeks to unpack the social construction of gender as it shapes work so that all students, regardless of gender identity, will be prepared to lead in a variety of organizational contexts and to advance inclusive workplace policies, procedures, and cultures.

This course seeks to improve the investment decision process through the application of investment frameworks and fundamental analysis. Classes will typically feature "live cases" for which students use real-time data and public filings to make investment decisions. Class discussions will often be co-moderated by guest practitioners who oversee capital allocation decisions for hedge funds, private equity partnerships, or corporations.

The objective of the course is to present a disciplined, valuation based process for security analysis. The course will focus on melding theory and practice using examples across industries and geographies. Investing is as much art as it is science, and therefore, particular attention will be paid to both quantitative and qualitative aspects- including financial statement analysis, valuation methodologies, and competitive strategy.

Strategic costing is concerned with use of internal cost accounting information to plan and evaluate strategic operations and interactions with stakeholders of the firm. The focus is on planning and strategic decision-making by the organization and on the accounting systems that managers have to assist them in their decisions about resource allocation and performance evaluation. The course is intended as an extension of foundational cost accounting.

In recent years, private market investing including real estate has risen strongly. Real Estate is linked closely with the fields of finance and business & leads to a specialized career. Curriculum is needed in order to recruit and support success in developing the next generation of responsible leaders in real estate. This course will allow students to interact with leading investment managers and experts in the area.

This course explores the myriad social, economic and cultural problems that our society currently faces and asks what business can do about it. Education, climate change, emerging technology, healthcare and more. What is the unique role that business can play and how can individual business leaders fully realize both the uniqueness and full potential of that role?

This course develops expertise in stewarding responsible public disclosure to external stakeholders through an analysis of the managerial decisions that drive both financial and non-financial communications. The focus of the course is on the roles of a company's accounting system, management and board in creating an environment where managerial decisions lead to high quality stewardship of public disclosure.

Sports contexts provide an excellent vehicle by which to study how to use analytics as part of a leader's decision-making toolkit. How, for example, do you evaluate talent analytically, and decide how to construct, motivate, and compensate members of a team? While we can't know with certainty how a professional player (i.e., employee) will perform in the future, models can be built to analyze the past, thus make powerful statistical predictions.