This course prepares first-year students for their summer internships. Using full-length feature films, the course shows students how to get the most out of their summer internships and, in the process, teaches them career-management skills that will help them become more effective leaders in their careers after Darden. The course addresses critical well-researched joining-up phenomena such as letting go of the current engagement, establishing credibility, learning organizational norms, socialization, self-management, the locus of control, the effects of compromise, joining work groups and teams, adult-learning theory, orientation to hierarchy and power distance, managing upward, abrasive personalities, and consolidating experience-based learning. It is designed to capitalize on the literature and research bases provided by neurolinguistic programming, habitual behavior, and rational-emotive-behavior constructs in order to ensure that students will fit in quickly, gain influence rapidly, learn consistently, and outperform their competition. The provocative films encourage student engagement and, perhaps, life-changing debate.

This course addresses topics and subjects likely to be experienced by MBAs seeking positions or internships in general-management career-development programs or consulting firms with a strong interest in good operations-analysis/management skills. The topics covered in this course are likely to be encountered by rising MBA students in their summer internships or by recent graduates in their first few years out of school. Topics will include, but will not be limited to, such areas as competitive cost analysis, lean thinking in services and manufacturing, and six-sigma project design and implementation. Prerequisites: Restricted to Darden students.

This course is intended to introduce students to the consulting process and to help them identify and refine the skill sets necessary for successful consultation. The course is designed specifically for students interested in pursuing consulting internships and careers but who do not have significant consulting experience prior to Darden. Approximately half of the course will focus on the cognitive processes involved in framing and designing the engagement specifically, hypothesis generating and testing, using a set of video cases that track the work of actual consulting teams as they move through the processes of initiating and completing client projects. The other half will address a more tactical set of issues around engagement work-planning, data-gathering, field-interviewing, and communicating with clients. The course will include the use of cases and exercises and the completion of a final project presentation. Students will be assigned to a consulting team to work with throughout the course.

By exploring in more depth the strategies of communication framed in the First-Year Management Communication course, this course offers students the opportunity to obtain the polished presentation skills, particularly oral, so necessary for a successful career.

Through a combination of cases and experiential exercises this course brings to students what expert entrepreneurs have learned the hard way. Expert entrepreneurs are people who have built multiple ventures including successes and failures and taken at least one company public.

In these courses, students are engaged in applying the knowledge and experiences of the MBA Program within their business and job settings. Because participants in the MBA Program for Executives are employed on a full-time basis, they have the unique opportunity to immediately apply part or all of the learning.

The Leadership Residency 2 consists of three modules that support the main topic of the course and offer students an opportunity to reflect on various sides of changing. Leaders Changing Organizations explores different ways leaders can conceptualize change in order to implement it.

The course serves as both a capstone at the conclusion of the PTMBA students' core requirements and as a launch pad to prepare students for success in the impending electives portion of their Darden experience. Across modules, the week is designed to be active and experiential, getting the students out of their routine classroom environments and personal comfort zones.

A "deeper dive" into the strategy concepts introduced in the first year Strategy course, with an orientation towards the practice of consulting, translating analysis into recommendations. Heavy emphasis on problem definition & hypothesis testing in the first half. In the second half, explore effective strategies for articulating the findings & recommendations from strategic analyses, both verbally & through slides, spreadsheets, & graphics.

Course needed to confirm students' exchange program of study.