The Part Time opening residency prepares Part-time MBA students for success in the core Darden curriculum and Darden classroom by providing foundational knowledge of the core language of business practice and application of tools across disciplines to solve business issues. Students will develop their competency to develop and work in diverse teams, foster an inclusive environment, and establish community norms as leaders.

Professional Advancement Course Full-time MBA is designed to help MBAs in the residential full-time program adopt new behaviors and reach their potential as leaders. Successful career professionals are intentional, have a strong sense of self, and take ownership over outcomes. This course invites students to build on their learnings from the first year, enhance their career skills, and further define their professional path forward.

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.

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.

Eastern philosophies such as Buddhism, Hinduism, Shintoism, and Confucianism focus on how to clear one's mind. This course will explore how military, political, and religious philosophies from India, Japan, China, and Thailand inform Western strategic thinking with the goal of learning how to apply these philosophies to the making of business strategy.

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.

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.