Darden MBA Program CONCENTRATIONS. Class of 2016

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1 Darden MBA Program CONCENTRATIONS Class of 2016 CORPORATE FINANCE/INVESTMENT BANKING ASSET MANAGEMENT/SALES & TRADING ENTREPRENEURSHIP CORPORATE INNOVATION BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT AND GROWTH STRATEGY CONSULTING MARKETING SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT INNOVATION FOR SUSTAINABILITY BUSINESS ANALYTICS GLOBAL BUSINESS v12 9/15/15 1

2 CORPORATE FINANCE / INVESTMENT BANKING This concentration is designed to extend the valuation and value creation principles learned in the first year curriculum to the solving of complex problems faced by companies and investment banks. This concentration should be of interest to students with professional interests in corporate finance (including CFO type responsibilities, internal M&A groups, strategic planning, business development, and treasury and cash management), investment banking (capital raising, deal structuring, and M&A advisory), commercial banking and financial services, consulting in financial services, and a wide range of other management positions that require advanced understanding of finance. Faculty Contact: Ken Eades, eadesk@darden.virginia.edu A student will be recognized as having this concentration when they have completed 9.0 hours of the courses listed below, of which no more than 3.0 hours may be chosen from the Secondary electives list. Primary Electives: (Minimum of 6 credits required) 1.5 Valuation in Financial Markets (FY-ELEC/SY ELEC) GBUS Corporate Financial Policies (FIN) GBUS Corporate Financing (FIN) GBUS Entrepreneurial Finance & Private Equity (FIN) GBUS Derivative Securities: Options & Futures (FIN) GBUS Financial Institutions and Markets (FIN) GBUS Mergers and Acquisitions (FIN) GBUS 8625 Secondary Electives: (Maximum of 3 credits will count toward the total of 9 credit hours.) 1.5 Financial Reporting (FY-ELEC) GBUS Taxation of Mergers and Acquisitions (ACC) GBUS Taxation and Management Decisions (ACC) GBUS Fin Stmt Analysis & Corp Valuation (ACC) GBUS Management Decision Models (DA) GBUS Acquisition of Closely-Held Enterprises (ENTRE) GBUS Hot Topics in Finance (FIN) GBUS 8450 Experiential: (None) v12 9/15/15 2

3 ASSET MANAGEMENT / SALES & TRADING This concentration is designed to extend the valuation principles learned in the first year curriculum to solve complex problems faced by asset managers and sales and trading professionals. The courses expose students to a variety of different financial markets and give students a deeper understanding for how companies are valued, which are critical components for either managing a client s funds or executing security trades. Faculty Contact: Ken Eades, eadesk@darden.virginia.edu A student will be recognized as having this concentration when they have completed 9.0 hours of the courses listed below, of which no more than 3.0 hours may be chosen from the Secondary electives list. Primary Electives: ( Minimum of 6 credits required) 1.5 Valuation in Financial Markets (FY-ELEC/SY GBUS 7603 ELEC)) 1.5 Derivative Securities: Options & Futures (FIN) GBUS Financial Trading (FIN) GBUS Investments (FIN) GBUS Portfolio Management (FIN) GBUS Darden Capital Management (FSE) GBUS 8520IA Secondary Electives: (Maximum of 3 credits will count toward the total of 9 credit hours. 1.5 Financial Reporting (FY-ELEC) GBUS Fin Stmt Analysis & Corp Valuation (ACC) GBUS Management Decision Models (QA) GBUS Hot Topics in Finance (FIN) GBUS Financial Institutions and Markets (FIN) GBUS Global Financial Markets (SY-ELEC) GBUS 7602 Experiential: (None) v12 9/15/15 3

4 ENTREPRENEURSHIP Students graduate who understand their affinity for being entrepreneurial, understand the fundamentals of effectual and causal thinking, and when each is appropriate and graduate with a set of skills based on academic study and experiential work that allows them to be confident in starting a new venture. Faculty Contact: Philippe Sommer, sommerp@darden.virginia.edu A student will be recognized as having this concentration when they have completed 10.5 hours of the courses listed below, of which 4.5 hours must be from the primary electives list, 3.0 credits from the Secondary Electives list and 3.0 credits from the Experiential list. Primary Electives: (Choose 4.5 credits) 1.5 Effectual Entrepreneurship (FY Elective) GBUS Entrepreneurial Thinking GBUS Prototyping and Product Development 1 GBUS Starting New Ventures GBUS Venture Capital GBUS Software Design GBUS 8632 Secondary Electives: (Choose 3 credits) 1.5 Acquisition of Closely Held Enterprises GBUS Growing the Smaller Enterprise GBUS Introduction to Business Law GBUS Entrepreneurial Finance and Private Equity GBUS Small Enterprise Finance GBUS Entrepreneurs Taking Action GBUS Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship GBUS 8060/ Leading Innovation GBUS Systems Thinking and Design GBUS Entrepreneur as Change Agent GBUS Digital Marketing GBUS Prototyping and Product Development 2 GBUS Software Development GBUS Innovation and Design Experience GBUS 8459 Or 1.5 Creativity and Design Thinking (FY Exp/MBAE) GBUS 8484 Experiential: (Choose 3 credits) 3.0 Darden Venturing Project GBUS Global Business Experience Israel (if offered) GBUS 8510P 3.0 Markets in Human Hope GBUS The Adrenaline Innovation Project (FY Exp) GBUS Develop an Entrepreneur s Mindset (FY Exp) GBUS 7615 v12 9/15/15 4

5 CORPORATE INNOVATION Student graduates who have developed the mindset and skill set to succeed at identifying and implementing innovation in a corporate setting. Faculty Contact: Jeanne Liedtka, liedtkaj@darden.virginia.edu A student will be recognized as having this concentration when they have completed 10.5 hours of the courses listed below, of which 4.5 hours must be from the primary electives list, 4.5 credits from the Secondary Electives list and 1.5 credits from the Experiential list. Primary Electives: (Choose 4.5 credits) 1.5 Prototyping and Product Development I GBUS Innovation and Design Experience or Creativity and Design Thinking (FY Exp/MBAE) GBUS 8459 GBUS Managing Innovation & Product Development GBUS System Thinking and Design GBUS 8430 Secondary Electives: (Choose 4.5 credits) 1.5 Leadership and Cultures of Trust and Innovation GBUS Marketing Analytics GBUS Leading Strategic Change GBUS Leadership and Theatre: Ethics, Innovation and Creativity GBUS Entrepreneurial Thinking GBUS The Experience Economy (1 wk) GBUS Innovating and Integrating in Services GBUS GBE Spain: Strategy as Design (If offered) GBUS 8510G 1.5 GBE: Sweden (with approval if offered) GBUS 8510K 1.5 Prototyping and Product Development 2 GBUS 8495 Experiential: (Choose 1.5 credits) 1.5 Darden Consulting Project GBUS Prototyping and Product Development 1 GBUS 8130 if not used as primary 3.0 Innovation and Design Experience GBUS 8459 if not used as primary 1.5 GBE: Israel (If offered) GBUS 8510P v12 9/15/15 5

6 BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT AND GROWTH Sustainable success requires organizations to innovate and grow to maintain or increase profitability. Students in this concentration will learn the fundamentals of managing innovation, organic growth, and acquisition and integration of mergers and acquisitions. Faculty Contact: Jeanne Liedtka, A student will be recognized as having this concentration when they have completed 10.5 hours of the courses listed below, of which 4.5 hours must be from the primary electives list, 3.0 credits from the Secondary Electives list and 3.0 credits from the Experiential list. Primary Electives: (Choose 4.5 credits) 1.5 Post-Merger Integration GBUS Competitive Dynamics Seminar GBUS Organic Growth: A Challenge for Public Companies GBUS Managing Innovation & Product Development GBUS 8612 Secondary Electives: (Choose 3.0 credits) 1.5 Strategy Seminar GBUS Marketing Intelligence GBUS Valuation in Financial Markets GBUS Entrepreneurial Thinking GBUS Corporate Governance GBUS General Managers Taking Action GBUS Prototyping and Product Development 1 GBUS 8130 Experiential: (Choose 3.0 credits) 1.5 Darden Consulting Project GBUS Innovation and Design Experience GBUS 8459 v12 9/15/15 6

7 STRATEGY CONSULTING This concentration is intended to immerse students in the consulting process and to help them identify and deepen the skill sets necessary for success in that role. Faculty Contact: Mike Lenox, A student will be recognized as having this concentration when they have completed 10.5 hours of the courses listed below, of which a minimum of 4.5 hours must be from the primary electives list, 3 hours from the Secondary Electives list, and a minimum of 3.0 credits from the Experiential list. Primary Electives: (Choose 4.5 credits) 1.5 Competitive Dynamics Seminar GBUS Strategy Seminar GBUS Strategic Thinking: Integrating East and West GBUS Operations Strategy GBUS Organic Growth: A Challenge for Public Companies GBUS 8468 Secondary Electives: (Choose 3.0 credits) 1.5 Post-Merger Integration GBUS Managing Innovation & Product Development GBUS Valuation in Financial Markets GBUS Marketing Intelligence GBUS Management Decision Models GBUS Health Care Management GBUS Systems Thinking and Design GBUS 8430 Experiential: (Choose 3.0 credits) 3.0 Darden Consulting Project GBUS Innovation and Design Experience GBUS 8459 v12 9/15/15 7

8 MARKETING The marketing concentration prepares students for careers in marketing by helping them understand how to manage customer relationships (e.g. in consumer packaged goods, consumer durables, consumer services, consulting firms, Not for Profits (NFPs), industrial goods and technology products. Through this series of courses, students will gain insight into how customer-based marketing decisions can create loyal, engaged customers. Faculty Contact: Raj Venkatesan, A student will be recognized as having this concentration when they have completed 9.0 hours of the courses listed below. 4.5 credit hours must be chosen from the list of primary electives with the remainder chosen from either the primary or secondary electives. Primary Electives: (4.5 credits) 1.5 Integrated Marketing Communications and Promotion (FY Elective) GBUS Marketing Analytics GBUS Pricing GBUS Digital Marketing GBUS Managing Consumer Brands GBUS 8620 Secondary Electives: 1.5 Prototyping and Product Development 1 GBUS Hot Topics in Marketing GBUS Marketing Metrics GBUS Marketing Intelligence GBUS Consumer Psychology GBUS Darden Independent Study GBUS Innovation and Design Experience GBUS 8459 Experiential: (None) v12 9/15/15 8

9 SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT Obtain additional grounding in Operations Management concepts, develop depth in knowledge of general management- associated supply chain management concepts and principles, and build strength in related cross-functional skills. Faculty Contact: Elliott Weiss A student will be recognized as having this concentration when they have completed 10.5 hours of the courses listed below, 1.5 credits are required courses, 3.0 hours must be from the primary electives list, 4.5 credits from the Secondary Electives list and 1.5 credits from the Experiential list. Specific Required Courses: (1.5 credits) 1.5 Supply Chain Management GBUS 8830 Primary Electives: ( Choose 3.0 credits) 1.5 Operations Strategy GBUS Business to Business Marketing GBUS Systems Thinking and Design GBUS General Management and Operational Effectiveness (FY Elective) GBUS 7608 Secondary Electives: (Choose 4.5 credits) 1.5 Negotiations GBUS Management Decision Models GBUS Emerging Topics in Technology & Operations Management GBUS Global Innovation and Technology Commercialization GBUS 8488 Experiential: (Choose 1.5 credit hours) with a focus on Supply Chain management issues. 1.5 Darden Independent Study (with approval) GBUS Darden Consulting Project (with approval) GBUS 8699 v12 9/15/15 9

10 INNOVATION FOR SUSTAINABILITY This concentration is designed to equip students with an informed sustainability perspective to strengthen their managerial and decision-making capabilities and their ability to improve society through business. Coursework will: 1) Enable students to design and execute collaborative sustainability strategies intended to increase revenues through innovative products and services, lower costs through efficiencies and design, create and enhance sustainable brands, and mitigate business risk. 2) Instill knowledge about the global and systemic impacts on natural systems and human well-being from important societal trends such as urbanization, industrialization, climate change and population growth; 3) Inform students of regional and global institutions and policy instruments that influence business operations and strategy. This concentration is relevant for students pursuing careers in operations, including supply chain, marketing/brand management, consulting and finance, as well as for entrepreneurs. Faculty Contact: Michael Lenox, Students will be recognized as having this concentration when they have completed a minimum of 9.0 credits of the courses listed below. A minimum of 6.0 credits must be from the Primary Electives, and a minimum of 1.5 credits must be from the Experiential Electives. Primary Electives: (Choose a minimum of 6.0 credits) 1.5 Business Ethics through Literature GBUS Business-Government Relations GBUS Creative Capitalism (FY Elective) GBUS Global Economics of Water GBUS Leadership, Values and Ethics GBUS Leading Strategic Change GBUS Managing Innovation and Product Development GBUS Philosophy and Business: Business in Society GBUS Supply Chain Management GBUS Systems Thinking and Design GBUS 8430 NON GBUS with approval (Max of 3.0 credit hours). For example: 3.0 Climate Change: Science, Markets & Policy EVSC 7040/LAW 9013 Experiential Electives: (Choose a minimum of 1.5 credits) 1.5 Darden Independent Study (with approval) GBUS Darden Consulting Projects (with approval) GBUS Darden Venturing Projects (with approval) GBUS Global Business Experience (with approval) GBUS Darden Capital Management (Rotunda Fund) GBUS A 3.0 Innovation and Design Experience (with approval) GBUS Markets in Human Hope GBUS 8478 v12 9/15/15 10

11 BUSINESS ANALYTICS The Business Analytics concentration will prepare students to participate in organizations that make abundant use of data/quantitative/mathematical techniques as part of their business processes. It is a more general version of the Market Analytics concentration in that the areas of application are more than marketing. We expect completion of this concentration to be a useful signal to potential employers of the analytic and quantitative abilities of the student. Faculty Contact: Robert Carraway. CARRAWAYR@Darden.virginia.edu A student will be recognized as having completed this concentration when (s)he has met the following three constraints: Completed at least 9 hours of the courses listed below. Completed at least 4.5 hours from the Primary Electives list. Completed at least 1.5 hours from the Experiential Electives list with a Quantitative Analysis faculty member.* *This requirement may under certain circumstances be relaxed. For example, if a student is doing an Experiential Elective with another professor but it includes a significant analytical component, this might be approved as a substitute. To waive this requirement, you must receive permission from Robert Carraway. Specific Required Courses: none. Although we expect students will take Data Analysis and Optimization (7600) as it is a pre-requisite for some of the courses below. Primary Electives: (At least 4.5 hours) Credit hrs. Course Title Course Number 1.5 Data Analysis and Optimization GBUS Management Decision Models GBUS Optimization GBUS Data Science in Business GBUS 8496 Secondary Electives: Credit hrs. Course Title. Course Number 1.5 Project Management GBUS Systems Thinking and Design GBUS Marketing Analytics GBUS Investments GBUS Games and Auctions GBUS 8424 Experiential Electives: (At least 1.5 hours. Selection(s) must be approved by faculty contact) Credit hrs. Course Title Course Number 1.5 Darden Consulting Project GBUS Darden Independent Study GBUS 8999 v12 9/15/15 11

12 GLOBAL BUSINESS Darden s MBA program has a global component. Students with the global business concentration have taken a deeper dive, and studied a particular region, topic or phenomenon in depth in an explicitly global context. This concentration is well suited for students who look for jobs with a strong international component. Faculty Contact: Peter Debaere debaerep@darden.virginia.edu A student will be recognized as having this concentration when they have completed 10.5 hours of the courses listed below, of which 4.5 hours must be from the primary electives list, 3.0 credits from the Secondary Electives list and 3.0 credits from the Experiential list. Primary Electives: (Choose 4.5 credits) 1.5 Global Financial Markets GBUS China in the World Economy GBUS Management of Economic Growth and Society GBUS 8309 Mastering Global Leadership: Managing your career and Life in the Global Economy GBUS Global Industry Economics GBUS Global Economics of Water GBUS 8626 Secondary Electives: (Choose 3 credits) 1.5 Advanced Global Financial Markets GBUS International Deal Making: Legal & Business Aspects GBUS Leadership and Diversity through Literature GBUS Business Government Relations GBUS Markets in Human Hope GBUS Transforming Societies GBUS Strategic Thinking: Integrating East and West GBUS Reading Seminar Bob Bruner/Dick Mayo 1.5 Pre-approved Independent Study on Global Topic Experiential: (Choose 3.0 credits) 1.5 Global Business Experiences GBUS Global Consulting Project GBUS International Exchange GBUS 8009/8010 Experiential electives from some of our partner schools also count. v12 9/15/15 12