Blog: Archive for the “University of Virginia (Darden)” Category

We spoke with Sim Siew Han, a rising Darden second year, just as he was finishing up his first year of the MBA program and preparing for his summer break. A CPA from Malaysia whose family owns a number of different businesses—and with entrepreneurial aspirations of his own—Sim was able to shed some light on … Read More  

Darden initially announced that it would have only one essay prompt, but now that its application has been officially released, we see that the school actually requires three “traditional” essays and an optional essay, like most other programs this year. Darden can be said to be slightly more focused on fit than other schools, because … Read More  

Many think that because the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business casts itself as a general management program, the school has no specialties. General management, however, is a philosophy that suggests that no business problem can viewed in isolation—for example, a finance problem relates to marketing, a marketing problem relates to operations and so … Read More  

Facing the oversaturation of information and intrusive mediums through which to absorb information, University of Virginia Darden School of Business Dean Robert F. Bruner suggests in a recent blog post published on DeansTalk that the key to managing an intellectual lifestyle that benefits you in the business world is to develop healthy reading habits. Himself … Read More  

MBA students at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business are known to work quite hard amid the rigors of the case method. Each day, they are expected to read and complete their own analysis of a case (a narrative that details a business problem) and then compare and reason through their analysis with … Read More