Global Events

For a listing of Admissions event dates around the world click here.
For a listing of recent Darden International Visitors click here.

Cold Call Nights Tokyo- May 22, 2009

From Top Left: Sakaue Makoto (guest), Ryoichi Tokuda (Darden '03), Masa Otsuka (Darden '02), Kozue Iwaasa (guest), Lee Crocket (Darden '94), Suetsugu Azami (guest), Shin Furukawa (Darden '92) From Middle Left: Diana Chiu (UVA Law), Kazuko Imai (guest), Rie Fushiki (guest), Ichiro Suzuki (Darden '84), Tetsuo Shinobu (Darden '97), Tomomi Takagi (guest), Nina Yoshimura (guest), Hiromi Usuki (guest) From Bottom Left:  Dae-In Cha (Darden '06), Atsushi Matsumoto (Darden '03), Dong-Eun Kim (Darden '07), Yugo Koushima (guest)

To debrief about the discussion session led by Ichiro Suzuki, Senior Portfolio Manager of the Equity Investment Dept. of Nomura Asset Management, Ichiro-san covered the topic "Understanding Financial Market through History of Bubbles and Storms," informing us about the history, anatomy, and lessons to be learned from the market bubbles and storms.

Key learning of the session are as follows:

 1)  Bubbles take place across many asset classes (such as commodities, real estate, equities, fixed income securities) and tend to form when society experiences advancement in technology of communication, transportation, and major infrastructure.  (These advancements lead to strong economic growth, easy credit, and demand supply imbalances, which are recipes for bubbles.)

2) Due to individuals' and entities' abilities to tkae on leverage, and due to global development of communication and transportation technologies, the cycle of financial bubbles and storms will tend tto be shorther than the time span witnessed in past history.

3) Do not ever subscibe fully to the phrase: "This time it's different."  This time is NOT different, though no two cycles are ever the same. 

Yoko Ishikura's blog entry on a Darden alumni activity in Tokyo, Japan
Feb 6, 2009

Last Friday, February 6, we had annual Darden school reunion at ICS. I host one Darden reunion a year as I  am a Darden class of 19xx and we have exchange program at ICS.  We had some 20 people –most alumni of Darden as well as their friends- attending what is called “Cold Call Nights” starting at 7:00 p.m.  Every year… Read more of the blog here.

An Alumni Reunion in Frankfurt, Germany is planned for March 20-21, 2009.

A Tokyo Alumni Welcome- November 17, 2008

Ten of Darden’s Tokyo-based alumni warmly welcomed world travelers Frank and Veronica Warnock, Darden associate professor and Batten Fellow, respectively, on Monday, November 17th, at Oto-oto Restaurant in Tokyo.  

Since late August, the Professors Warnock have been teaching aboard the University of Virginia’s MV Explorer for the fall voyage of the Semester at Sea. Before reaching Japan, they had stopped in ports in Brazil, Namibia, South Africa, India, Malaysia, Vietnam, Hong Kong, and China. At eighty-five days into their journey, the evening with Darden alumni was a much needed dose of home. “It is always special getting together with alumni, whether our paths crossed at Darden or not. We had met only one of the Tokyo-based alumni before Monday, but with this group’s hospitality and contagious camaraderie, we felt that the evening very quickly became like a night out with old friends,” they said by email.

The Warnocks send special thanks to Darden’s alumni office for reaching out to the Tokyo alumni and to Dae-In Cha (MBA ’06 and a student in the inaugural Markets in Human Hope course) for organizing the get-together.

Next week the Tokyo alumni will welcome Peter Rodriguez (Associate Dean of International Affairs), Martin Davidson (Associate Dean for Diversity), and Sara Neher (Head of Admissions), who will be travelling to Japan for the Darden Reception Tokyo, an event to be attended by Darden Alumni and prospective students from Japan."

Pictured left to right: (Back row) Shin Furukawa (‘92), Tetsuo “Shin” Shinobu (’97), Taka Koitabashi (‘93), Yasu Oshima (’93), Ichiro Suzuki (’84), Yaz Nakayama (’99), Dae-In Cha (’06), Naohito Kuroda (’99)(Front row) Hiromi Koizumi (’92), Veronica Warnock, Frank Warnock, Masa Otsuka (’02)

 Cold Call in Tokyo

September 18, 2008  Tokyo, Japan
Many Darden alumni members gathered for a Cold Call in Tokyo and had the opportunity to both listen, and say goodbye, to John Farrell (Darden '80) current Executive Vice President of Coca Cola Japan, who has recently been promoted and appointed to become Vice President of Coca-Cola (Atlanta, USA) in charge of overseeing its Corporate Strategic Planning function.  Farrell's chosen topic was “How to Grow a 120 year old brand,” highlighting the importance of leadership and belief.

International Trek Dates

The International Trek is organized by the Career Development Center (CDC) for students to interview with companies for jobs in these locations.  For more information, please contact Denise Karaoli at the CDC.

Hong Kong – Nov. 27-28, 2008
London – Nov. 27-28, 2008
Mexico City – Nov. 27-28, 2008 (NOT yet confirmed)
Brazil – Dec. 15-19, 2008
Dubai – Dec. 15-19, 2008
India – Dec. 15-19, 2008
Shanghai – Jan. 5-9, 2009 (may include Beijing)
Singapore – Jan. 5-9, 2009

German Chapter 2008 Reunion

July 11-13, 2008  Frankfurt, Germany
As the first German Chapter Reunion in years, this event will bring together German and German speaking alumni from across Europe. It will be jointly organized with the UVa Law School Reunion.  For more information, contact Hagen at Hagen.Radowski@infomotion.de.

Darden International Alumni Reunion 2008

In April, the Tayloe Murphy International Center hosted an event to celebrate our international alumni, our international programs, and our international achievements. 

World Bank Economist Joins Africa Lecture Series

The Darden African Business Organization (DABO) welcomes Harry Broadman, Economic Adviser for the Africa Region at the World Bank in Washington, D.C., to the Spotlight on Africa Lecture Series Feb. 27, 2008.  The event will be held in Classroom 190; 1:30-2:45 p.m.

Global Energy Symposium Begins February 28, 2008

Darden and the UVA School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) are co-sponsoring the first in a three-lecture energy symposium series titled: “The Future is Now: The Business, Technology and Politics of Global Energy.”

Darden Professor Andrea Larson on Feb. 28 will join SEAS Professor Ramon Espino and attorney Michael P. Drzal, LeClair Ryan Law Firm, to discuss The Business of Green Energy: Opportunities and Technology Options. The discussion is 4-5:30 p.m. in the Jefferson Room of Alumni Hall on Emmett Street.

Latin America Conference, hosted by the Latin American Student Association
Feb 18, 2008

LASA Conference’s objective is to expose MBA students to open discussions among academics, professionals and representatives from local and international government agencies on how the political, economic and social state of the region shapes the way people do business in Latin America and how the region interacts with the rest of the world.

LASA Conference Event Details 

Yoko Ishikura's blog entry on a Darden alumni activity in Tokyo, Japan
Feb 15, 2008

"Darden is the graduate business school of University of Virginia where I received my MBA many years ago. (I am a class of 1980!) We had close to 30 people—Darden alumni, current Darden students who are at ICS, current ICS students and former ICS students who spent a semester at Darden, and some prospective students...."  Read more of the blog here. 

Feature Event:
European Case Competition
February 21 - 24, 2007

The Tayloe Murphy International Center will host the final of the Darden's fifth annual European Case Competition. Since its inception, over 100 teams from throughout Europe have participated in the Case Competition.

Visit our web site at www.darden.virginia.edu/casecomp for more details.

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