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Design Your Life Webinar: A Recap

Executive Career Coach Sarita Soldz recently hosted a webinar detailing how to use Design Thinking principles to ideate potential career paths for yourself. Did you know there are potentially many different versions of you? Indeed. Life design is all about identifying, sketching and then engaging with these potential pathways, and…

By Brett Twitty- March 11, 2020

Darden Community, Darden News, Executive MBA, Full-Time MBA

Student Innovators and Entrepreneurs to Relocate to New Creator Space

UVA’s W.L. Lyons Brown III Innovation Laboratory, affectionately known as the i.Lab, is getting a new home! The Virginia-wide initiative supports entrepreneurs and innovators on Grounds and beyond, serving as a place to create, connect and find community. This summer, the i.Lab will move from…

By Maggie Dodson- March 5, 2020

Admissions, Career, Executive MBA

5 Myths About Darden’s Executive MBA

We love mythbusting here at the Discover Darden blog, and today we’re back to bust up some of the most common Darden Executive MBA myths. Myth No. 1: I’m not an Executive so I can’t apply to an Executive MBA Program. Perhaps the greatest myth of them…

By Brett Twitty- March 4, 2020

Academics, Executive MBA

What’s a Weekend Residency Like?

Students often ask about the Executive MBA weekend residencies: How do they work? What happens during the weekend? The goal of this post is to shed a little more light on the weekend residency experience. The base location for our Executive MBA program is the Washington, D.C., area. All…

By Brett Twitty- February 27, 2020

Career, Executive MBA

Executive MBA Career Coach Sarita Soldz Hosts Negotiation Webinar

Executive MBA candidates often ask if they will have access to career support, and our answer is a resounding “YES!”From the curricular (“Professional Advancement” course) to the extracurricular (individual advising sessions, career education, networking events, job postings, etc.), our program has a wealth of resources to meet students where…

By Brett Twitty- February 25, 2020

Academics, Executive MBA, webinar

Get to Know the Global Opportunities Available Through Darden’s Executive MBA

As we’ve previously shared, the Executive MBA recently unveiled a number of updates, including expanded global residency locations, increased electives and a simplified schedule.Earlier this month, Director of Admissions Brett Twitty and Director of Global Executive Programs Ladi Carr hosted a webinar about the global experiences available to…

By Brett Twitty- February 19, 2020

Executive MBA, Executive Student Profile, Podcast, Student Profile or Feature

Global Executive Student Gains ‘Enterprise Perspective, Holistic Mentality’

Today, we continue our ongoing series about women in the Darden Executive MBA program with a conversation with Global Executive MBA (GEMBA) student Olivia Zhou (Class of 2020).Zhou was also a recent guest on The ExecMBA Podcast, where she shared more about her background; her decision to pursue an…

By Brett Twitty- February 13, 2020

Admissions, Darden Community, Executive MBA, Full-Time MBA, Podcast

Darden Podcasts: Now Available on Your Favorite Platform

On behalf of Darden Admissions’ podcasts, Experience Darden and The ExecMBA Podcast, we are excited to announce that all UVA Darden podcasts can now be found on Spotify, Podbean, Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, and Spotify! In the next few days we’ll also be available on Google Play, TuneIn and iHeartRadio…

By Maggie Dodson- February 10, 2020

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