About Us

For over half a century, Darden Executive Education has served as a critical resource for businesses around the world, conveying the relevant concepts and specific business skills needed to formulate sustainable growth. We offered our inaugural Executive Education program in 1955; since that time, individuals and companies have partnered with us because Darden learning means thinking differently, actively participating in finding answers to key business challenges, and developing management and leadership teams at all levels.

Annually, we provide more than 35 highly relevant open-enrollment program offerings that are designed for today's managers and executives. Addressing function-specific and general management challenges, these programs place emphasis on problem identification, analysis, and solutions contributing directly to managerial effectiveness.

This long-standing commitment to high quality, results-oriented learning is the reason many of the world's leading organizations consider Darden a critical component of their corporate strategies. Through Darden programs, organizations can step ahead of the curve and navigate the future rather than being caught up in its currents, and can set the stage for sustainable growth.

A REPUTATION OF EXCELLENCE

#2 Provider of Open-Enrollment Programs
Financial Times, 2008, 2009                
#3 Provider of Open-Enrollment Programs
Financial Times, 2007
#1 Provider of Open-Enrollment Programs
Financial Times, 2006
#2 Provider of Custom Programs in the U.S.
BusinessWeek, 2005

Darden Executive Education consistently scores in the Top Five globally among business schools in the following categories, as rated by participants. (Financial Times)

• #1 Faculty (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009)
• #1 Course Design (2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009)
• #1 New Skills and Learning (2009)
• #1 Senior Management Programs (2005)
• #2 Teaching Materials (2009)
• #2 Preparation (2009)
• #2 Aims Achieved (2009)
• #2 Senior Management Programs in the U.S. (2006)
• #3 Food & Accommodations (2009)

Change the Way You Think.
Improve the Way You Do Business.

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