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Global Leadership Forum in Shanghai

Published on May 2, 2013 in Admissions, Darden Community and Events. 0 Comments Tags: China, Darden, Events, GEMBA, Global, Global Leadership Forum, Global MBA for Executives, Shaghai, University of Virginia, UVA.

The Darden School is hosting the second annual Global Leadership Forum on 10 – 11 May 2013 in Shanghai, China. This is a remarkable event where students and alumni have the opportunity to network with top business leaders, explore critical issues in the global economy and learn about how to successfully conduct business across continents and cultures.

All prospective students are welcome to attend the following events:

Friday, 10 May, 1:00p.m. – 5:00 p.m.: Darden Global Economic Forum (open to the public)
Friday, 10 May, 5:00p.m. – 7:00 p.m.: Admissions/Alumni Networking Reception (please register)
Saturday, 11 May, 10:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.: GEMBA Class Visit, Round Table and Lunch (please register)

Darden’s Global Leadership Forum will take place in conjunction with the Global MBA for Executives (GEMBA) Class of 2014 residency in China.

What To Do Around Charlottesville

Published on April 25, 2013 in Darden Community and Student Profile or Feature. 0 Comments Tags: Charlottesville, Darden, MBA, student, University of Virginia, UVA.

In today’s post, members of the First Year Student Admissions Committee recommend their favorite spots in and around Charlottesville. Whether it’s dining out, wine tasting, attending concerts, hiking or touring historical landmarks, there is never a shortage of things to do in Charlottesville.

	“My favorite bars are Michael’s Bistro, The Virginian, and SkyBar. My favorite places to grab something to eat are definitely Mas, Citizen Burger Bar, Revolutionary Soup, MotoPhoCo, and Bellair Market.”- Katie Koopman
	“There is excellent Italian place at the Downtown Mall called Bella’s, or you could check out a tapas restaurant, Mas. On the other hand, a game of golf at Birdwood Golf Course is just 5 minutes from Darden.”- Djordie Minic
	“One word…Wineries! (King Family, Trump, Blenheim in particular). Also, there are tons of parks for families and Carter Mountain Orchard is a great local spot right near Monticello.”- Matt Sullivan
	“There are some great outdoors activities here: hiking in the Blue Ridge Mountains, walking the Saunders-Monticello trail, picnicking or reading in the UVa gardens. In the summer, I love to head to the Pavilion on the Downtown Mall for the weekly “Fridays After Five” free concerts.”- Colleen Arthur
	“For a bite to eat, I’d recommend Citizen Burger, Positively 4th, Blue Moon Diner, or Mono Loco. For a weekend activity, my favorite thing to do is run on the Rivanna Trail and then grab a few drinks a SkyBar later that night.”- Kat Baronowski
	“I like to study at Greenberry’s Café. When it comes time for brunch, check out Blue Grass Grill or West Main. And, as a former New Yorker, I like to admire my closet space.”- Angie Alam
	“Check out Taste of China for some authentic Chinese food. I love to go apple picking, too.”- Yue Zhu
	“Grabbing lunch or dinner with friends at Feast, Continental Divide or Ten is one of my favorite things to do.”- Allie Czerepak
	“I love biking or walking the Rivanna Trail and salsa-dancing at Escafe.”- Tayo Shodiya
	“There is great live music at the Jefferson Theater and some great wineries in the area (Pippin Hill and Veritas especially).”- Emily Yee
	“I have to go with the food: Feast Market, Revolution Soup, Positively 4th, Ivy Inn, Ace Biscuit and Barbeque, Belmont BBQ.”- Jon Payne
	“I love close/quick hikes at Ivy Creek Natural Area, hitting up Cville Coffee, getting Arch’s gooey brownie froyo topping, visiting Castle Hill for some hard cider, and learning some history at Monticello. For places to eat, definitely check out THE FLAT!!! (crepe shack on the Downtown Mall), The Virginian (mac and cheese!), Boylan and Citizen Burger (homemade veggie burgers!), and The Southern (live music).”- Genie Ko
	“Taking advantage of living in central Virginia: Carter Mountain Orchard, Skyline Drive, and Blue Ridge Mountains hiking.”- Scott Poitevent
	“Go eat at Royal Indian. It is the best Indian food I’ve eaten in the US and I’ve lived here for 9 years and tried more than 100 Indian restaurants.”- Rohan Poojara
	“Taking a drive out to Crozet to Crozet Pizza (amazing Pizza) and relaxing by the lake at Mint Springs Valley Park.”- Bryan Furman

Learn more about Charlottesville and the surrounding area on the Darden website.

Darden Social Media

Published on April 17, 2013 in Darden Community. 0 Comments Tags: Darden, EMBA, Facebook, GEMBA, LinkedIn, MBA, social media, twitter, University of Virginia, UVA.

Named No. 5 among Most Social Media Friendly MBA Schools for 2013 by OnlineMBAPage.com, the Darden School strives to connect prospective and current students, faculty, staff and alumni through a variety of media and social platforms. Highlighted below are a few social media platforms in which you can find Darden:

Darden on Twitter

In addition to following tweets from Darden via our official account @DardenMBA, you can also follow other Darden faculty, staff, students and alumni with just one click using the Twitter Lists below.

Darden Discoveries: Follow prominent professors, Darden Research Centers and staff members as they share their latest insights and breaking research via Twitter.

Talking About Darden: Join the conversation around Darden: follow students, professors and alumni sharing their experiences via Twitter.

Darden’s LinkedIn Company Page

Darden’s LinkedIn Company Page offers its followers news from the School and updates about Darden research and thought leadership, as well as information about our offered programs.

Darden MBA on Facebook

Connect with students, faculty, alumni and prospective students, by joining more than 65,000 fans on the Darden Facebook page. See what’s happening on Grounds, learn about Darden news around the world, enjoy photos and share your own with others.

Darden via Mobile: Darden Publications App

Download the Darden Publications app in the iTunes store to read our interactive MBA viewbooks, as well as other Darden publications.

You can also read our MBA, MBA for Executives and Global MBA for Executives viewbooks online on your computer.

Interested in following Darden in other social media? Go to our Social Media page for a listing of all official Darden pages.

Darden’s i.Lab Partners With TomTom Founders Festival to Promote Entrepreneurship in Charlottesville

Published on April 9, 2013 in Darden Community and Events. 0 Comments Tags: Batten Institute, Charlottesville, Darden, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, Events, MBA, Tom Tom, University of Virginia, UVA.

This Thursday, 11 April, is the grand opening of the W.L. Lyons Brown III Innovation Laboratory (i.Lab) expansion. The original i.Lab, launched in 2010, is expanding to include a state-of-the-art incubator that will be open to qualified University of Virginia (U.Va.) and local community start-ups and will service as an entrepreneurial hub for the University and the Charlottesville community.

Part of the opening festivities will include a “U.Pitch. C’ville Decides.” competition, co-hosted by the Batten Institute at the Darden School of Business and the Tom-Tom Founders Festival — an annual festival in and around the historic Downtown Mall in Charlottesville, Virginia with the mission to catalyze innovation by converging music, art, design and technology to connect people and new ideas for the future. The Batten Institute will award $10,000 in total to the competition’s top three winners, who will be selected by event attendees. The “U.Pitch. C’ville Decides.” competition winner will also receive the option to be admitted into the newly expanded i.Lab Incubator program.

Thursday’s events include a welcome from U.Va. President Teresa Sullivan and Dean of the Darden School Robert F. Bruner, an innovation challenge workshop led by Darden Professors Jeanne Liedtka and Bobby Parmar, elevator pitches by six admitted i.Lab incubator companies, and voting for the “U.Pitch. C’ville Decides.” competition.

Charlottesville has been named in the top 50 places in the country to launch a small business by Money Magazine.

To learn more about the i.Lab expansion grand opening or to attend the event, visit the Batten Institute website.

To learn more about MBA entrepreneurship opportunities, courses, competitions and more, visit the Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership website.

Darden Faculty Recognized for Advancing Knowledge in Corporate Ethics

Published on March 12, 2013 in Darden Community. 0 Comments Tags: Brian Moriarty, Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics, Darden, Dean Krehmeyer, Ed Freeman, ethics, MBA, University of Virginia, UVA.

Trust Across America included Ed Freeman, Dean Krehmeyer and Brian Moriarty on their alphabetical list of the Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business Behavior 2013. All three have been included on this list each year since it was initiated in 2011. Those included in this list are known for supporting a business culture that embraces strong and stable financials, conservative accounting, corporate integrity, transparency, sustainability and long-term reputation preservation.

Ed Freeman on the Importance of Business Ethics

Freeman, Krehmeyer and Moriarty are leaders in business ethics through their work with the Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics, an independent center that operates in partnership with Business Roundtable and is housed at the Darden School. In partnership with Business Roundtable and 16 leading faculty from top business schools, the Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics is dedicated to embedding ethics into the everyday business decision-making and practice of organizations through practitioner-focused research, executive education and outreach efforts.

To learn more about our faculty and Darden’s nine research centers, visit our Faculty & Research page.

Life of a Darden Student

Published on February 28, 2013 in Darden Community. 0 Comments Tags: academics, bloggers, career, case, case method, Charlottesville, Darden, MBA, student club, University of Virginia, UVA.

Life at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business is full of classes, club events, learning team sessions, job searches and social events. With so many opportunities, each student experiences Darden in a unique way. We invite you to learn more about Darden by reading the stories of some of our current students.

Here are some of our favorite posts from this year’s Darden Student Bloggers:

On the learning experience:

“Bringing It: The Darden Classroom” – Adhiraj Badyal

“My Favorite Electives” – Brian Cramer

“Brazil: Global Business Experience” – Brian Gavron

On recruitment:

“Q1” – Jonathan Meredith

“Job Treks and Trotting the Best-Coast” – Yachna Khare

“The Darden Advantage: Musings of a Summer Intern” – Adhiraj Badyal

“Reflecting on Second Year Recruiting” – Brian Cramer

On life at Darden:

“The MUST-KNOW Darden Traditions” – Gloria Lau

“Studying, Learning Team, Class, Shenanigans (Rinse & Repeat)” – Jenny Hammond

“Darden Gone Wild(erness)” – Kenny Schulman

Learn more about our Student Bloggers on our website.

Darden Leadership Speaker Series: Kip Tindell, Chairman & CEO of The Container Store

Published on February 26, 2013 in Career and Darden Community. 0 Comments Tags: conference, Darden, Events, Leadership, MBA, speakers, University of Virginia, UVA, Video.

The Darden School of Business hosts a Leadership Speaker Series featuring senior executives from companies around the world. This year, our guest speakers answer the question, “What Does it Take?” and explain how lessons and skills they have learned along the way have successfully prepared them to succeed in their current role. Speakers from this year’s series include top-level executives from Google, Booz & Company, Deloitte, Anheuser-Busch InBev and more.

In the video below, Kip Tindell, Chairman and CEO of The Container Store, shares his perspectives on conscious capitalism and the relationship between business and society.

“Conscious Capitalism” – Kip Tindell, Chairman & CEO of The Container Store

You can view a full lineup of upcoming and past Darden Leadership Speakers on our website.

Celebrating “Love is Love”

Published on February 14, 2013 in Darden Community. 0 Comments Tags: Darden, GLAD, LGBT, MBA, student club, University of Virginia, UVA.

Love is Love is an annual, weeklong campaign for awareness and support for LGBT community both at Darden and in the workplace. The power of its message is its simplicity: Regardless of gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity or religion, all relationships are equal.

This year, Love is Love was sponsored by Johnson & Johnson and Target and included the following events:

First Coffee: Professor Martin Davidson and leadership from Gays, Lesbians and Allies at Darden shared remarks about the Love is Love campaign, which was followed by community-wide photo of Darden students, faculty and staff wearing the Love is Love t-shirt.
UVA Safe Space Training: U.Va.’s LGBT Resource Center facilitated a discussion on effective ways allies can help support the LGBT community.
Photo Exhibit: Throughout the month of February, Darden displayed an exhibit by Jeff Sheng featuring images of military personnel in response to Don’t Ask Don’t Tell and its repeal.
Life After Don’t Ask Don’t Tell Panel: Jeff Sheng, Military LGBTs and their partners shared their experiences after the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.
Religion and Same Sex Marriage Panel: The religious-affiliated affinity clubs at Darden hosted a discussion on religion and same sex marriage.
“Out at Work” Film Screening: Professor Yael Grushka-Cockayne opened her home to members of the Darden community for a screening of the documentary “Out at Work,” which was followed by a discussion about workplace scenarios involving the LGBT community.

Meet Darden’s Top-Ranked MBA Faculty

Published on January 14, 2013 in Darden Community and Video. 0 Comments Tags: Darden, faculty, MBA, University of Virginia, UVA, Video.

The Darden School faculty is consistently ranked in the Top 10 by Financial Times and The Princeton Review. In addition to being easily accessible to students, they are known to be innovators and leaders in business school education, continually developing new courses, cases and simulations in the case method.

You can learn more about Darden’s faculty in the video profiles below. To read about their research, visit our Faculty & Research page.

Darden MBA Faculty Profile: Ed Freeman

Darden MBA Faculty Profile: Elliott Weiss

Darden MBA Faculty Profile: Sankaran Venkataraman (Venkat)

Darden MBA Faculty Profile: Lynn Isabella

Darden MBA Faculty Profile: Alec Horniman

Darden MBA Faculty Profile: Jim Clawson

Guest Post: The Darden Brand Challenge

Published on December 10, 2012 in Darden Community, Guest Posts and Student Profile or Feature. 0 Comments Tags: brand challenge, Darden, Marketing, MBA, student, University of Virginia, UVA.

In this week’s guest post, First Year student Patrice Yao discusses FOMO, Marketing Club and the Darden Brand Challenge:

As a first year student at Darden, there are tons of opportunities to get involved both in and out of the classroom. A commonly heard term “FOMO” (Fear Of Missing Out) applies to everything – First Year students don’t want to miss out on Darden Cup events, Section socials, or opportunities to network with company representatives.

Recruiting starts almost immediately after Term 1 exams, and students have the opportunity to attend company briefings and invite-only company dinners. One great way to get to know companies better is to participate in company sponsored challenges and case competitions.

This year, the Marketing Club sponsored Darden’s annual Brand Challenge Competition. Teams of 4-5 students worked together with companies to survey the Darden community on consumer preferences for certain products. My team worked with General Mills to understand Darden students’ preferences between ‘Traditional’ versus ‘Supreme’ Betty Crocker brownies. We partnered with General Mills’ representatives to develop a survey, design our booth, and present recommendations.

Patricia Yao (second from left), pictured with the Betty Crocker team at the Darden Brand Challenge

This year’s Brand Challenge included 18 teams working with various companies including: Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, The World Wildlife Fund, Campbell’s, Ford, Best Buy and more. Over 130 Darden community members attended the event to sample products and provide their opinions. Awards were given out to teams for “Best Booth” and “Best Spirit.” Teams flexed their creative skills, including visual displays to draw in their audience. For example, the Darden “moms” gave out samples of toaster strudel, just like how we might remember them at home!

Darden Brand Challenge – Pillsbury Team

Darden Brand Challenge – Microsoft Team

It was a great opportunity to work with companies on a larger scale and interact with recruiters in forums other than interviews and company briefings. It was a ton of fun to put together, and a great way to practice our classroom marketing techniques in the real world. And of course, nothing beats baking 14 trays of brownies and building a brownie sundae bar for hungry business school students!

Patrice Yao, Class of 2014

Patrice grew up in Chicago and has been working in Washington, DC for the past several years as a management consultant. Prior to Darden, she received a Masters in Human Resources and Industrial Relations from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In her spare time, you can find Patrice planning parties, cooking for large groups, and hosting big potlucks – all within the confines of her one-bedroom apartment.