Graduation Highlights

Graduation 2022

362 147 FULL-TIME MBA GRADUATES (A RECORD) 28 EXECUTIVE MBA GRADUATES (A RECORD)

DUAL-DEGREE GRADUATES

Awards

22 STUDENTS RECEIVED THE C. STEWART SHEPPARD AWARD RECOGNIZING EXCEPTIONAL SERVICE TO THE SCHOOL OF A NONACADEMIC NATURE

Kathryn Elizabeth Allen Natalia Alvarez Diaz* Stephen Beaudoin Mudit Bothra* Albert G. Bossar* Esther Festus Edoho Caroline Grace Ey Isabel Rae Fortuño Seitzer Alex Alexandra Goodman* Grant Turner Guess Aditya Kasarabada* Andrew Reid Kurzweil* Lorchineng Lo Juan Martin Montiel* William Haden Payne II* Rafael Joaquin Rivera Syed Adam Sadiq Catriona M. Stadtler-Ayer Sean Robert Taylor Somto Umeokafor Amanda Clare Wear John McLaughlin Yates

*Received summer or fall of 2021

JENNIFER LYNN BUNDY AND JUNGAE KIM-SCHMID WERE THE RECIPIENTS OF THE FREDERICK S. MORTON AWARD, PRESENTED TO STUDENTS FOR EXCELLENCE IN LEADERSHIP

ELIZABETH O’BRIEN MATHEWS WAS THE RECIPIENT OF THE EXECUTIVE MBA FACULTY AWARD, PRESENTED TO AN OUTSTANDING STUDENT IN THE EXECUTIVE MBA PROGRAM.

Full-Time MBA Initial Career Outcomes

92% RECEIVED A JOB OFFER BY GRADUATION 89% ACCEPTED A JOB OFFER BY GRADUATION $175,000 AVERAGE BASE SALARY (A RECORD)

FACULTY MARSHALS

YAEL GRUSHKA-COCKAYNE, Full-Time MBA ELENA LOUTSKINA, Full-Time MBA ELLIOTT WEISS, Executive MBA

ELECTED STUDENT GRADUATION SPEAKERS

JOSEPH STANLEY (EMBA ’22) “The diversity of experiences and perspectives within our class of working professionals, filtered through the case discussions of our academic work, was a sum greater than the parts and a testament to the value of executive education programs."

“I hope you remember how bold you can be. You took a chance on yourself and wrote that Darden application, and look at you now. We are all living those dreams that we had years ago, and we are on the precipice of achieving the dreams we carry with us now."

ALEXANDER SMITH (MBA ’22)

2030 Sustainability Goals to Guide Darden Operations, Curriculum

Darden this spring announced a series of new sustainability goals and a comprehensive, actionable framework to achieve them by 2030.

The 2030 goals align with the UVA Sustainability Plan and build on Darden’s previous successes, including achieving carbon neutrality in 2019. Darden is one of the first top business schools to reach net-zero emissions.

Key goals address specific issues such as greenhouse gas emissions, waste, curriculum development and faculty scholarship. Aspirations for 2030 include:

• Identify, reduce and offset greenhouse gas emissions to continue operating at net-zero emissions as the School grows • Electrify all current fossil fuel infrastructure on Darden Grounds in

Charlottesville • Reduce water use by 30 percent from 2010 levels • Reduce waste to landfill to 30 percent of 2010 levels • Sustainably source 50 percent of food served at Darden • Increase supplier diversity through additional purchases from local, small, women-owned and minority-owned businesses • Eliminate single-use plastics, such as bottled water • Develop 100 new teaching cases and notes on sustainability topics • Publish 100 new research articles on sustainability topics • Deliver 100 courses on sustainability topics

To put the plan in motion, Darden has created a new sustainability council composed of students, faculty, staff, alumni and members of the Darden School Foundation Board of Trustees. The council is led by Professor Carolyn Miles (MBA ’88).

Visit www.darden.virginia.edu/about/environmental-sustainability

See the Forest for the Trees

We invite you to support a new fundraising initiative, Plant a Tree at Darden

During the next year, Darden will plant 1,300 trees — ranging from dogwoods to Eastern redbuds — in the five-acre arboretum and botanical gardens surrounding the new boutique hotel at Darden.

Name a tree — or trees — with a gift of $10,000 per tree to support the new Arboretum Establishment and Sustainability Fund. This fund will be used for the creation and maintenance of the arboretum and gardens, which will provide an unparalleled destination on Grounds and capture over 30 metric tons of carbon dioxide annually. Naming a tree is a meaningful way to honor your class or individual classmates, a faculty member, a family member or loved one, or a club or organization.

The trees will include a combination of local and global varieties, consistent with Darden as a school in the Commonwealth and of the world.

Support the School through a sustainable gift that will create a healthy Virginia forest and a greener Darden for years to come.

For more information, contact interim Vice President of Advancement Samantha Hartog, HartogS@darden.virginia.edu or +1-434-982-2151.