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.

Seasoned leaders will tell you that there were defining moments - those particular instances in which their values and judgment were tested in an inescapable way - that played a disproportionate role in how they and others thought about their success. Navigating these defining moments well usually requires strong communication. Economists Robert Schiller and Joseph Stiglitz state that economic inequality is the defining challenge of our time.

This course seeks to equip students with basic economic and development concepts and tools in order to enhance their problem-solving skills, and to deepen their understanding of socioeconomic issues and how business, entrepreneurs, and markets can promote human development and transform societies across the world. We will tackle issues in the social sector, sustainability challenges, problems of the underserved, and other urgent issues.

To prepare business students for engagement with China, this course explores the fundamental forces that shape its business environments. We start with an analysis of China's economic and political systems and then move to investigate the unique features of its labor, financial, and real estate markets. The course will also examine how foreign businesses succeed and fail in the world's most dynamic economy.

Strategy execution has become a critical differentiator among firms seeking breakthrough financial performance. In this course, we develop an analytic approach that combines four domains (alignment, architecture, activation, and ability) into an integrated approach to firm performance. Throughout this course we use cases and applications to translate concepts and frameworks into real-time action learning projects with sponsoring companies.

Every corporation must grapple with a host of strategic issues and the development of a strategy-the integrated set of actions required to achieve the vision of the company-is a complex exercise that is more than a set answer at a given moment in time. As setting and developing strategy is an on-going process, there are opportunities to approach it from many different approaches or with new conceptual tools.

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 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.