When you select an MBA program, you are not just choosing your learning environment but are also committing to becoming part of a community. Each Thursday, we offer a window into life “beyond the MBA classroom” at a top business school.
The celebration of the first-year class’s completion of its first 100 cases at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, appropriately called the 100-Case Party, typically takes place in October or November at a Charlottesville club. Over the two years they spend at Darden, students will study more than 500 cases. Said one alumnus we interviewed, it is “a huge party; people go wild,” while another told us that the party is significant because “it celebrates a huge milestone.” In 2011, a first year described the party in her blog about MBA life at Darden, saying, “I’m not sure if the plan is to drink 100 cases, but anything is fair game!”
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