Darden Online - Strategy, Ethics & Entrepreneurship

Specializations

Business Strategy

4 courses, 4 weeks/course, 4 hours/week

Explore strategy fundamentals and discover both the dynamics and global aspects of strategic management. Learn to evaluate industry evolution, build and sustain competitive advantage, formulate and assess business strategies, and align efforts to maximize business potential.

Entrepreneurship: Growing Your Business

4 courses, 4 weeks/course, 4 hours/week

Growing a business requires a dynamic set of skills, ranging from leadership, employee management, strategy, planning, finance, accounting, ethics, accountability, and profitability.

Pricing Strategy Optimization

4 courses, 4 weeks/course, 4 hours/week

Maximize profits through the application of pricing strategy. Darden faculty partner with the Boston Consulting Group to build your understanding of the strategic power of pricing to maximize price realization through the application of cost and economics, customer value, and competition.

Courses

Advanced Business Strategy

4 weeks, 4 hours/week

Deepen your analytic skills through the application of tools to develop and understand strategy across time, geographies, markets and stakeholders.

Business Growth Strategy

4 weeks, 4 hours/week

Build your organization’s value — whether by scaling existing markets, entering established markets or creating new markets through innovation and acquisitions — using proven tools to analyze, evaluate and recommend specific actions that avoid common growth pitfalls.

Cost and Economics in Pricing Strategy

4 weeks, 4 hours/week

Set prices based on economics and understand the pros and cons of a cost-based pricing approach.

Customer Value in Pricing Strategy

4 weeks, 4 hours/week

Discover how to price your products in a way that increases sales — by knowing what your customers are willing to pay and leveraging psychology to create a better deal.

Digital Business Strategy

4 weeks, 4 hours/week

Develop your ability to design and implement strategies that will help your company prosper in the digital age.

Digital Transformation

4 weeks, 3 hours/week

Win in the digital age with an understanding of the drivers, mechanics, trends, challenges and enablers of digital transformation.

Effectuation: Lessons from Expert Entrepreneurs

4 weeks, 4 hours/week

Learn how effectual entrepreneurship helps overcome four obstacles people commonly face when they think about starting a venture. Hear from expert entrepreneurs how to think and act effectually, co-create new possibilities from things already within your control, and tackle uncertainty without having to predict the future.

Ethical Leadership Through Giving Voice to Values

4 weeks, 4 hours/week

Gain confidence and competence to voice and enact your values using the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) approach to values-driven leadership development in the workplace, business education and life.

Foundations of Business Strategy

4 weeks, 4 hours/week

Explore the underlying theory and frameworks of a successful business strategy and practice the tools you need to analyze and develop effective strategy.

Market and Competition in Pricing Strategy

4 weeks, 4 hours/week

Maximize your revenue by implementing competitive pricing that avoids common legal pitfalls and learn to predict, influence and respond to competitors’ pricing moves.

Pricing Strategy in Practice

4 weeks, 4 hours/week

Demonstrate your price-setting prowess in this project in this project-centered course that takes you from problem statement to detailed analyses, utilizing the tools and techniques taught in previous Specialization courses.

Strategic Planning and Execution

4 weeks, 4 hours/week

Gain a competitive edge with the pillars of strategy execution — analysis, formulation, and implementation — and use the 4A model to effectively approach strategy execution.