• GBUS 8493

    AI in Marketing
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    Fall 2025

    This course will focus specifically on the AI driven transformation of marketing. This course provides an in-depth exploration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in marketing, combining theoretical frameworks with practical applications. Students will study the history and processes of AI, including machine learning and deep learning, and how these technologies can be leveraged through the AI Marketing Canvas for strategic planning.

  • GBUS 8496

    Machine Learning and AI for Business
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    Fall 2025

    New cases provide opportunities to learn how data science is affecting a variety of domains, from entrepreneurship and marketing to operations and finance. In this course, students will gain exposure to the concepts and tools used by managers to create disruptive business models that leverage big data.

  • GBUS 8497

    Impact Investing
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    Spring 2025

    This course will cover the rapidly-expanding world of impact investing, focusing on the fundamentals underlying investment strategies for funds (and, to a lesser extent, companies) seeking to both create profit and generate social or environmental impact.

  • GBUS 8500

    Special Topics Seminar
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    Spring 2026

    Each seminar is a course of study for students with special interests in business administration topics not currently included in the normal course offerings of the MBA Program. The seminar topics should be consistent with the objectives of the Second Year Program.

  • GBUS 8509

    Tactical Topics for Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition
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    Fall 2025

    Provides students with exposure to practical matters faced by operators of smaller enterprises. Whether starting or acquiring a small enterprise, entrepreneurs will be better prepared having been introduced to real-world topics such as relationships with key service vendors (banking, legal, accounting), commercial leasing terms, employee benefit programs, state and local public policy, government procurement, commercial insurance, etc.

  • GBUS 8520

    Darden Capital Management
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    Spring 2026

    In the Darden Capital Management (DCM) course students will test their ability to value a stock and evaluate the appropriateness of an investment thesis for inclusion in a portfolio. The course prepares students in equity research, stock selection, and portfolio management in a real-world environment in which students manage funds from the Darden Endowment.

  • GBUS 8530

    Global Immersion
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    Spring 2026

    This Darden Worldwide Course aims to develop a deeper understanding of a particular global business environment, what it takes to successfully enter and understand new business contexts, and how to develop a mindset as a leader across different cultures and institutions. The course accomplishes this by immersing students on-site in a new context to study these issues through engagement with local executives, global and local companies and organizations, meeting with government and community leaders, exploring activities of cultural and historical significance, and meeting with peers.

  • GBUS 8535

    Growth and Business in Emerging Markets
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    Fall 2025

    This course explores the relationship between institutions, economic growth and business environments in fast growing economies. It adopts the view that market development and institutional reform are the fundamental forces driving long-run growth and near-term change in the global business environment. Provides a global view to students who want to work in substantially global industries and management positions.

  • GBUS 8601

    Darden Prisoner Reentry Education Program (PREP)
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    Fall 2025

    The purpose of this course is to develop a deeper understanding of the capabilities required to integrate team management, leadership through pedagogy and engagement with social challenges. This course expands students¿ foundational business knowledge as they take on the role of instructor and teach business cases through the Socratic method.

  • GBUS 8602

    Darden Returning Citizens Reentry Program
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    Spring 2026

    This Darden PREP course, in partnership with Resilience Education, engages MBA students in transforming the way the business community understands incarceration and its societal impact. Students will work in teams to address reentry and employment challenges of our students or work on a project that builds on the work of the Darden Prisoner Reentry Education Program (PREP) and Resilience Education (RE) more broad.