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.

The complete course in project management will include Monte Carlo simulation for project risk analysis within project planning, scoping, and network analysis. The critical path method will be employed. Topics of resource allocation, project monitoring, and real options thinking will be included.

This course is designed to provide students with a practical understanding of the merger and acquisition marketplace, addressing such topics as why companies grow through acquisitions, how acquisition or merger candidates are analyzed strategically and valued financially, and ultimately, whether and how mergers and acquisitions create value for stakeholders. Takeovers and mergers are a daily fact of life, have evolved into a critical part of every CEO or manager's strategic toolbox, and will most likely affect every person who enters the corporate world at some point in their career. Whether a student chooses to be a senior corporate manager, an M&A practitioner, or merely an informed armchair observer, the course is intended to provide the analytical framework to evaluate an acquisition from a strategic, financial, structural, tactical, legal, and ethical perspective. Students will apply learned content to real business situations, including the opportunity to develop, create, and present an acquisition proposal to an actual corporate client during the class.

This course is based on the assumption that nonprofit organizations benefit individuals and society in numerous ways. It is designed to introduce students to the scope and the diversity of nonprofit organizations, to the unique governance, communications, and financing structures inherent in them, and to the innovative and creative opportunities available in them for well-trained and flexible management professionals.

This course is designed to expose students to advanced quantitative techniques in marketing research. The course deals with how marketers can extract useful information from marketing data for designing marketing strategies. The emphasis in the course is on advanced data analysis relevant for marketing decisions. Topics will include techniques relevant for new product pretests, product line pricing, demand forecasting, market and customer segmentation, allocating resources for advertising and promotion, customer valuation, and evaluating marketing campaign performance. Course content will feature a combination of cases, exercises, lectures, and a group project. The course will use a very hands-on approach and a majority of the topics covered in this course will have direct applicability to those students concentrating in marketing in their future jobs. Students are advised to take the Marketing Intelligence course prior to this course.

In today's competitive business landscape, efficiency and productivity are paramount for success, and the ability to navigate complex operational challenges is critical. The vast array of choices available in decision-making processes often exceeds the capacity of manual analysis, necessitating the use of sophisticated optimization algorithms. This course explores business challenges that can be effectively solved using optimization techniques.

This course is a continuation of the Q2 course and provides an opportunity for students to further master interviewing, talent evaluation, verbal and written communication, marketing skills, and leadership skills. In addition, the course allows the students to deliver a meaningful and relevant recommendation to aid in the work of the Admissions Office.

This course will introduce students to capital structures of businesses with a focus on in-court and out of court restructurings. The course will discuss valuation, credit and leverage structures, the responsibilities and rights of each constituent in the capital structure, the methods and tools of restructuring and distressed investing.

Opportunity for structured practice on integrating three key capabilities for any digital program: product design, application development, and analytics. The focus of the student experience is on directed practice for deepening and integrating their foundation of understanding of product design, application development, and analytics.

"Creating a venture can be a lonely undertaking, leaving the Entrepreneur asking, "What to do Next?" We're going to turn venturing into a team sport and support each other as each student team builds their ventures towards viability as a side gig or a full time work. We will use the class to further develop entrepreneurial fundamentals like partnering, customer sales, and managing your affordable loss."