Local Middle School Students Learn About Business in Society at UVA Darden
By Jay Hodgkins
The Institute for Business in Society, one of the University of Virginia Darden School of Business‘ research Centers of Excellence, recently hosted a group of middle school students from nearby Nelson County, Virginia. The institute followed the students throughout the day as they participated in a hot chocolate networking session with Darden faculty and students and took part in classes and workshops, and wrote a blog about their experience.
Using a real-world example of high schoolers choosing between different career tracks, Professor James Freeland walked the middle school students through an MBA case study on the concept of expected value analysis. To help the students better relate to the case, he invited two former student athletes and a former engineering student now studying at Darden to share their stories about making career choices.
“Money plays a major role, but not the only role,” stressed Freeland.
Read more about the visit on the Institute for Business in Society blog.
Charlottesville-based NBC29 also reported on the field trip on its local news broadcast.
The University of Virginia Darden School of Business prepares responsible global leaders through unparalleled transformational learning experiences. Darden’s graduate degree programs (MBA, MSBA and Ph.D.) and Executive Education & Lifelong Learning programs offered by the Darden School Foundation set the stage for a lifetime of career advancement and impact. Darden’s top-ranked faculty, renowned for teaching excellence, inspires and shapes modern business leadership worldwide through research, thought leadership and business publishing. Darden has Grounds in Charlottesville, Virginia, and the Washington, D.C., area and a global community that includes 18,000 alumni in 90 countries. Darden was established in 1955 at the University of Virginia, a top public university founded by Thomas Jefferson in 1819 in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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