The ExecMBA Podcast

Oct 30 2024 100 ep. 47 mins 9

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An informational podcast series about the Executive MBA Program at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business.

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ExecMBA Podcast #346: Office Hours Spotlight | In Conversation with Professor Gabrielle “Gabe” Adams

Oct 30 2024 59 mins

In this special edition of the Darden Admissions podcast, we share a recent installment in our ongoing ‘Office Hours’ faculty spotlight series, a conversation with Professor Gabrielle “Gabe” Adams. Adams is a behavioral scientist, with a joint appointment as an associate professor of public policy (Batten) and business administration (Darden: Leadership and Organizational B

ExecMBA Podcast #345: Career Conversation | Gopika Spaenle, Managing Director, Career Center, Professional Degree Programs

Oct 23 2024 44 mins

In this episode of the podcast, we catch up with Gopika Spaenle. Gopika is the Managing Director, Career Center for UVA Darden’s Professional Degree Programs, and she is a repeat guest on the podcast. We talk with Gopika about the strategies for conducting a network-driven job search, and why this strategy pays dividends for Executive MBA and Part-Time MBA students seeking to mak

ExecMBA Podcast #344: Women@Darden Spotlight | Melissa Thomas-Hunt, Senior Associate Dean, Residential Full-Time MBA Program

Oct 18 2024 42 mins

In this special edition of the podcast, we are excited to share another installment from our ongoing Women@Darden event series featuring Melissa Thomas-Hunt, Senior Associate Dean for the Residential Full-Time MBA program at the UVA Darden School of Business. In this conversation hosted by Senior Assistant Dean of Admissions Dawna Clarke, Thomas-Hunt reflects upon her personal stor

ExecMBA Podcast #343: Catching up with Greg Fairchild, Dean and CEO, UVA Northern Virginia

Oct 11 2024 42 mins

In this episode of the podcast, we catch up with Darden faculty member and Dean and CEO of UVA Northern Virginia, Greg Fairchild. In this conversation, we talk with Greg about the inspiration for UVA Northern Virginia, where things stand with their current plans, their strategy and vision for the road ahead and more. This episode is highly recommended for anyone interested in learn

ExecMBA Podcast #342: Meet Megan McGee (MBA ’21), Director of Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition (ETA), Batten Institute

Oct 04 2024 43 mins

In this episode of the podcast, we catch up with Megan McGee. Megan is a repeat guest on the Experience Darden podcast, and a member of UVA Darden’s Full-Time MBA Class of 2021. Megan also recently joined Darden’s Batten Institute as the Director of Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition (ETA). We recently caught up with Megan to talk about her MBA journey, her interest in ETA, w

ExecMBA Podcast #341: Catching up with Jason Brewster, Director of Venture Programs

Sep 26 2024 41 mins

In this episode of the podcast we catch up with Jason Brewster. Jason is a repeat podcast guest, and he is the Director of Venture Programs for UVA Darden’s Batten Institute for Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology. In this wide-ranging conversation, we talk with Jason about his background, the entrepreneurial ecosystem at Darden, the recent iLab incubator cohort, and more

ExecMBA Podcast #340: Student Spotlight | Danny Holloway

Sep 20 2024 43 mins

In this episode of the podcast, we catch up with Danny Holloway. Danny is a second year student in UVA Darden’s Executive MBA Class of 2025, and he is also a Batten Tech scholar. We talk with Danny about his background, his decision to pursue an MBA, what he’s enjoyed about learning through the case method, the benefits of being a Batten scholar and more. For more insights, tip

ExecMBA Podcast #339: Student Spotlight | Kathleen Morrison

Sep 13 2024 42 mins

In this episode of the podcast, we catch up with Kathleen Morrison. Kathleen is a second year student in UVA Darden’s Executive MBA Class of 2025. We talk with Kathleen about her decision to pursue an MBA, what led her to Darden, balancing work, school and family, her favorite thing about the Executive MBA program so far and more. For more insights, tips, and stories about the Da

ExecMBA Podcast #338: Student Spotlight | Chris Ostwald

Sep 06 2024 32 mins

In this episode of the podcast, we catch up with Chris Ostwald. Chris is a second year student in UVA Darden’s Part-Time MBA Class of 2026. We recently caught up with him to talk about his background, his decision to pursue an MBA, relocating to DC from Boston to participate in Darden’s Part-Time MBA program, what he’s enjoyed about the program so far and more. For more insig

ExecMBA Podcast #337: Office Hours Spotlight | In Conversation with Professor Sasa Zorc

Aug 30 2024 57 mins

In this special edition of the Darden Admissions podcast, we share a recent installment in our ongoing ‘Office Hours’ faculty spotlight series, a conversation with Professor Sasa Zorc. Zorc studies incentives in multi-agent systems such as health care and decentralized matching markets. Methodically, his research relies on stochastic dynamic games, search theory, mechanism desi