Man, I've been waiting for a while to comment on this class overall. I know that there has been previous comments on this professor that were EXTREMELY harsh. I couldn't agree more with what they said. However, I would have to argue on the opinions during lecture where he would disagree with student's opinions. He changed that which was good. But I just want to go over on the class materials.

Participation: Its worth 20% of your grade. We understand that this is a Management class (Business) and as business women and men, we would have to communicate and be able to interact with one another. But this is a class, not a business session?? Some people may not even participation because they are shy or have a fear of speaking in front of the class. We've tried our literal hardest on not getting onto your bad side from what was seen before. If it was 10% it would have been better. Do you expect for us to speaking the majority of the time when there are students who "take over" and don't give a chance for others to speak?? Every lecture, he expects you to have your camera on. A friend of mine told me that she only went to get a bottle of water and turned off her camera for a few minutes and the professor gave her a warning?!? IT WAS LITERALLY SECONDS!!! CMON. Please respect student's privacy. We should have the right to turn off our camera. I mean, it's may seem uncomfortable at times, especially eating during class. I mean I felt super uncomfortable when i had my camera on and eating. I honestly HATE when people see me eat so please change that rule. At least he wasn't rude when people said their opinions. But usually, his face would change and I think he had favorites too. I won't say who but I felt at times, that he didn't want to hear from me at ALL. It happened quite a few times. For example, during "Newsweek" I would have an article. When I presented my article, his face became serious or bored. But when his "favorite" was next, his face light up. To me, it felt really upsetting. It also reflects on the grade I got....

Assignments/Case Studies: Damn. I hate the way the TAs grade it. No one's freaking perfect. There are specific requirements and usually the first one is by yourself. It wasn't pleasant. When your in a group, its better but I also think there was something suspicious about the way they grade. This also happened every case study we turned in. As we got our grades back, I would usually see my part (like a question and answer response) grade much lower than my group (peers). Sometimes, I thought "Is it because of my race? My ethnicity? Do they grade it harder on my part because I'm not good enough to do business?"

Exams: OMG I HATED THEM SO FREAKING MUCH. He uses Respondus so it makes way more FUN (not really). The first exam, as he says "is always the hardest one for students" or "students dont do well" Well, I WONDER WHY? 1) the first exam is literally 60 questions instead of 30 (because each question has two parts). You have an 1 hr and 10 mins to start it. WTF!! And this goes for the second one as well. The final is torture!!! 3 hours long (MC and Writing). Better yet, you dont even know what you got at the end (HE NEVER POSTED IT). The good thing is that he allows us to have study guides during the exam. The problem is, it wastes your time during the exam.

Group Project (Final Presentation): We literally had a final project the same time the final was so that made it so much worse. I still don't understand why he or the TAs grade it harder. We worked so hard on them to receive the grades we get. Let me remind them: THIS IS FOR PRACTICE ONLY.

TAs: I mean one of them was nice. The other, seemed really harsh. Marina is the nice one but unfortunately she's not going to be there. Sophia is the extremely harsh one. The weird part is that they weren't there all the time (like why??)

Professor: I mean rating from 1-100%, 70%. I just felt like there was some racism behind it but im not too sure.

If your taking this for the Entrepreneurship Minor, good luck. If your not, don't even bother taking this class. Take management 167 (Northrop is the best).

This class has a LOT of information packed into each class session (at least in the slides). For the tests you have to memorize most of the diagrams and many of the details in the (mostly) long readings for the long and tight-on-time exams. Professor is mostly helpful in office hours.
But, the class group project takes up a lot of time and you don't even get any feedback about your final project/ presentation grade [at least for this quarter] which is about 30%-40% of your grade {presentations + participation is graded on a scale relative to how others do}, and the grading for every presentation seems very arbitrary [because the rubrics for presentations are never released, you just get a number for some of the presentations].

This class is a total waste of time.

MGMT 160

The lectures are alright. The reading content (aka the stuff that determines your grade) is really really dry. You have to read a bunch of stuff about the frameworks and strategies and the exams expect you to memorize it all. The midterm is the same as the practice midterm. If you memorize it you get an A. I wanted to put that information out here because knowing that was the only way people got A's in the class. The median for the midterm was a 92%. The median for the final was 42%. the questions are all about defining, listing, mentioning what you read in the readings , so this change in the curve was caused just by the fact that you can memorize the midterm but not the final.

I did learn some interesting things about entrepreneurship in the discussion. However, the readings and testing procedure was so frustrating that it makes it hard to focus on the good stuff.

Basically I agree with the comment above. The only key thing you get an A in this class is you know in advance that the midterm will be EXACTLY THE SAME as the practice midterm, and the final will also have about 1/3 of the SAME problems from the midterm. As a result, if you can memorize everything from the practice midterm, do the writings on time, and attend every class (he takes attendance), you are guaranteed an A- at least. But if you don't know that piece of information from midterm, well, the class average is 92%, and you know what you will end up with.

You do learn some from the class, but in my opinion, not a lot compared to other classes with similar topics. In general, I won't recommend him at all.

The first half of this class you learn about the Business Model Canvas. Within the first week, you split up into groups of roughly 4 people. You create a startup idea and just run with it for the full 10 weeks. During that time, you try to create your business's version of the Business Model Canvas. During the last week of the course, you present it to the other students and to the professors. This term-long project is the focus of your discussion sections (which are mandatory).

During the second half of the class (while you're working on the BMC for your startup idea) they bring in some guest lecturers and talk about other aspects of creating a startup (corporations v partnerships, term sheets, IP, patents, etc.).

The readings give more detail on these projects. All of the readings are fair games for the exams. The final is cumulative. They post a review of the important slides, which you should definitely look over and memorize. Some of the short answers will ask you to draw the important diagrams from the review slides. If you skim through the readings and look over the slides, the exams are straightforward (a mixture of multiple choice and short answer).

Overall: an interesting class, cool to run with a startup idea and see how it evolves while engaging in the lean startup process.