Experiential Learning Opportunities
MBA - Experiential Learning Opportunities - Domestic Learning Opportunities
Domestic Learning Opportunities
Darden continues to innovate in the core and elective curriculum. Students have the opportunity to explore business and leadership through immersion experiences in the United States beyond Charlottesville.
Domestic Field Experiences
Leadership Ride: Lessons in Leadership
This course explores leadership by studying a key battle from the American Civil War. The evolving strategies, command structures and decisions during the Battle of Gettysburg contain enduring messages for thinking about leadership, teamwork and decision making. Through traditional class sessions, seminar-style discussions and an intensive field experience, this course compares leadership styles, systems of authority and reactions to the ever-changing conditions on the battlefield. The battlefield tour is led by U.S. Marine Corps faculty and staff guides who specialize in leadership and strategy during the Gettysburg engagement. Learn more by reading this student blog post about the course: Cold, Wet, Windy & Worth It: The Gettysburg Leadership Ride.
Markets in Human Hope
The "Markets in Human Hope" elective explores audacious innovations in business and markets as viable tools in promoting human development and transforming societies. Students are asked to come up with private sector solutions for long-standing social dilemmas, such as lack of credit. Throughout the year, students create products, services, business methods, financial instruments and/or market-based systems that address the socioeconomic and structural challenges faced by the under served and disadvantaged. Part of the course includes a required field study component to face poverty head-on.
Consulting Darden Business Projects (DBPs)
Consulting DBPs are for-credit projects that give you the opportunity to gain real-world consulting experience. Teams of three to six students work with a corporate client to address a business challenge, such as:
- Developing a business plan
- Performing market analysis
- Creating a financial forecast
During the project, you will work closely with a Darden faculty advisor and will present a final project to your corporate client.
Learn more about how students can engage in consulting projects with area entrepreneurs in the video below.
