Program Overview

University Programs

The university offers a range of programs for students, including:

• Full-Time MBA: A 21-month curriculum with a global perspective to develop leaders of purpose.
• Part-Time MBA: A flexible schedule that works for students at the UVA Darden DC Metro location.
• Executive MBA: Earn the Darden MBA while advancing your career at the UVA Darden DC Metro location.
• Future Year Scholars Program: Darden’s deferred MBA admissions pathway for college seniors and full-time master’s students.
• MS in Business Analytics: A 12-month program in partnership with UVA's McIntire School of Commerce focused on statistical analysis and leadership.
• Ph.D.: A multi-year program that provides a rigorous course of study designed for candidates who research for more than the sake of research.

Executive Education & Lifelong Learning

The university also offers executive education and lifelong learning programs, including:

• Executive Education: Transformational, lifelong learning experiences to develop well-rounded leaders, drive growth in a changing market.
• The Executive Program: Darden's senior advanced management experience for top global executives.
• Programs for Individuals: Focused experiences for high-potential executives & managers seeking personal growth and career transformation.
• Custom Solutions: Development for leaders and high-performers, designed to meet your organization's unique needs.

Ph.D. Program

The Darden Ph.D. Program connects the fields of strategy, ethics, and entrepreneurship. Students in the program will be mentored by leading business faculty and will focus on:

• The design of new sources of value creation
• Sustaining, growing, and sharing value over the lifecycle of firms
• Learning to weave together values, value creation, and strategic innovation within a distinctive way of thinking about business and the role it plays within society

The program offers three tracks:

Strategy

Strategy equips students with the framework, concepts, and tools required to think strategically about the total enterprise and lead the creation of new futures.

Ethics

Ethics enables students to reason about the role of ethics in business in a complex, dynamic, and global environment.

Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship is not just about starting companies, but about developing the entrepreneurial mindset: doing more with less as well as doing more with what you have.

Faculty

The university has a diverse and passionate faculty, including:

• Ming-Jer Chen: Leslie E. Grayson Professor of Business Administration
• Yo-Jud Cheng: Assistant Professor of Business Administration
• R. Edward Freeman: Elis and Signe Olsson Professor of Business Administration
• Jared D. Harris: Associate Professor of Business Administration
• Young Hou: Assistant Professor of Business Administration
• Lauren Kaufmann: Assistant Professor of Business Administration
• Michael Lenox: Tayloe Murphy Professor of Business Administration
• Rory McDonald: John Tyler Associate Professor of Business Administration
• Bidhan "Bobby" L. Parmar: Assistant Professor of Business Administration
• Saras D. Sarasvathy: Paul M. Hammaker Professor of Business Administration

Locations

The university has locations in:

• Charlottesville, Virginia
• Shanghai, China
• Washington DC Area

Research Areas

The university's research areas include:

• Competitive Dynamics
• Ambicultural Strategy
• Global Strategy and Competition
• Corporate Governance
• Strategic Leadership
• CEO Succession
• Top Management Teams
• Business Ethics
• Stakeholder Theory
• Stakeholder Capitalism
• Pragmatism
• Interfirm Trust
• Competitive Strategy
• Nonmarket Strategy
• Corporate Strategy
• Core Strategy
• Business & Society
• Social Entrepreneurship
• Impact Investing
• Feminist Theory
• Business Strategy
• Corporate Innovation
• Sustainability
• Environmental Entrepreneurship
• Digital Transformation
• Decision Making and Ambiguity
• Business Ethics and Leadership
• Collaboration
• Stakeholder Management
• Entrepreneurship
• Cognitive Science
• Behavioral Economics