At a glance Workload:  Light Teaching Style:  Guest lectures, some interactive sessions Interest in students: Unclear Relevance to outside world: High Overall Professor Rating: 3-4 (hard to tell due to so many guest lecturers) Overall Course Rating: 4 (but them guest lecturers are good!) IDIS 612 is an interesting course.  It’s basically all guest lecturers, but they are good ones, as Professor [...]

At a glance Workload:  Heavy Teaching Style:  Lecture Interest in students: High Relevance to outside world: Moderate (this is baseline theory) Overall Professor Rating: 4 Overall Course Rating: 4 Finance 451 is a baseline, theory-oriented course that examines some of the general principles behind finance.  One really learns to apply these concepts in later courses.  While I obviously haven’t taken 451 with [...]

At a glance

Workload:  Heavy
Teaching Style:  Very interactive
Interest in students:Very high
Relevance to outside world: Very high

Overall Professor Rating:4.75
Overall Course Rating:5
If there is one elective to be taken during one’s time at the Leavey School of Business, it is Management 516, with Professor Dennis Moberg.  The course is on Organizational Politics and is not only about that, [...]

At a glance (please read review, as ‘at a glance’ it’s hard to rate professor Palmer)

Workload:  Moderate
Teaching Style:  Interactive
Interest in students:  Moderate
Relevance to outside world:  Low

Overall Professor Rating: 2
Overall Course Rating: 2.5
It is incredibly hard to summarize a review on Professor DR Palmer (who is different than Professor David R. Palmer, by the way).  [...]

At a glance

Workload:  Light
Teaching Style:  Highly interactive
Interest in students:  Very high
Relevance to outside world:  Not sure.

Overall Professor Rating: 4
Overall Course Rating:3.5
Professor Tep is a completely different professor than anyone other you are likely to have at SCU.  He believes not only in experiential learning but also in spirituality and looking at things with a much [...]

At a glance

Workload:  Light
Teaching Style:  Interactive (kind of)
Interest in students: High
Relevance to outside world:  Low

Overall Professor Rating: 2.5
Overall Course Rating: 2
Marketing 551 is a hard class for the SCU program.  Many have described it as an undergraduate-level course and I would agree, even as someone without any background in the marketing side of things.  So [...]

At a glance

Workload: Heavy
Teaching Style: Interactive
Interest in students: Very high
Relevance to outside world: Very high.

Overall Professor Rating: 4.5
Overall Course Rating: 4
Professor Darrel (Del) Mank is an engaging, intriguing and ultimately very interesting professor with a strong, real-world background. Management 524, Managing Technology and Innovation, is the perfect course for him. It’s a lot of [...]

This is the first of my reviews on the professors I’ve had while an MBA student at Santa Clara University’s Leavey School of Business. There are lots of sites out there that provide feedback and rates – ratemyprofessor is the most notable. The SantaClaraMBA Yahoo group also has a big database of comments and lots [...]