MBA course reviews

This is a series of posts reporting on the courses I have taken in the MBA program at Santa Clara University. I plan to keep this series going throughout my tenure in the program.

ACTG 300: Financial Accounting, Chris Paisley, Fall 2007

MGMT 501: Managerial Competencies and Effectiveness, James Hall, Fall 2007

MGMT 503: Organizational Analysis and Management, D. R. Palmer, Winter 2008

ACTG 302: Managerial Accounting, Ahmad. Hosseini, Winter 2008

MKTG 551: Marketing Analysis and Decision Making, Ling-Jing Kao, Spring 2008

MGMT 538: Managing Teams and Projects, Bo Tep, Spring 2008

MKTG 553: Competitive Marketing Strategy, Desmond Lo, Fall 2008

MGMT 703: Measuring and Managing Corporate Performance, Joel K. Leidecker, Winter 2008

I intend these to be articles public records and choosing my words appropriately. Keep this in mind as well if you comment.

If you are using these articles to learn about the experience you will have in the course, note that these courses simply describe a particular section during a particular quarter, and many instructors change their class structure and teaching methods from quarter to quarter. Also, I don’t have enough information to compare how two different instructors teach the same course, or even how the one instructor teaches two different courses.

Some of my reasons for writing this series of articles are to:

1. Critically analyze my experience in the MBA program.

2. Contribute to the public record about the courses and instructors.

3. Along with other articles, produce an account of my experience in the program that demonstrates that I was paying attention.

I’m publishing these on my blog instead of the SantaClaraMBA mailing list in order to allow myself to correct mistakes, add more information or even take them offline later on, and also to try to get more colleagues and friends reading my blog.

Here are other posts about my major experiences in the MBA program:

Elevator pitch contest in Fall 2008.