MOR 588 - Corporate Strategy and Competitive Dynamics

Hands down the best strategy class available at Marshall. The material Bhambri teaches should really be taught within core. Can't think of a field that wouldn't benefit from the high level understanding of value creation you get from his class.

A little unorganized and not well thought out course direction, however, given the lack of structure (syllabus was revised three times during the class), the class did provide some ground-breaking frameworks to analyze businesses, which I found very insightful. Case heavy, but discussion not intense. Final project working with RKS Design was a great way to apply frameworks/models to real world.

I learned a few new frameworks for analyzing strategies, but feel that I should have learned a lot more than I did. This class moved slowly even though the cases we read were interesting. Discussion was not very insightful and the professor revised the syllabus multiple times throughout the course. Overall, I'm not really sure what we were supposed to get out of this class - it was too disorganized.

Rough class to sit through. Bhambri is so dry that it's hard to stay engaged- everyone stopped reading the material halfway through. You'll learn a handful of things about strategy, and if you can manage to pay attention/read/participate, maybe you can learn more. But few people did. Could be a much more useful class, but taught poorly.

the class is interesting and provides useful frameworks that could be applied on different projects/jobs.

The class was incredibly boring and is just a huge waste of time. To make matter worse, professor Bhambri talks incredibly slowly and is as dry as they get. His class was so bad I felt like time stood still in the classroom.....Avoid at all costs!

This course could be really interesting if another professor was teaching it. Professor Bhambri teaches this for the Executive program and - apparently - has more time to more thoroughly flush out his curriculum. For the full-time program, he seems to take the same reading that he has for a 3.0 credit course and just compress it into a 1.5 credit timeline. As a result, you are assigned 2-3 full cases for each class and he rarely addresses even one of them. Furthermore, he seems to be consistently surprised with unsurprising things: that he assigned certain readings, that he addressed things in previous classes, even the amount of time each class lasts. It's possible that he realized how poorly structured the class was and will make changes to it for future full-time sections, but as it stands now it was a very disappointing class.

This class had a lot of potential but it was unorganized and I was never sure what we were talking about or what the point was. We didnt get to all the readings and the professor did not do well facilitating discussion amongst the students.

Prof. Bhambri presents case studies in a different way compared to all the core strategy classes. What I like about this class is that it is driven by the prof than driven by students. Cases he used were mostly relevant to events in the past year.

This is the professor's first time teaching at USC. He was previously at Ross. He has a lot of industry experience and will talk about his time at companies that are in the cases. The conversations about the cases are sometimes dragged out depending on class engagement. He's experimenting with the layout and we have switched to student lead discussions instead of quizzes.

Professor McGrath focuses on company cultures through case readings and mergers and acquisitions through the group projects. Workload is on the heavier side - case readings/additional articles for in-class discussions every class, quizzes (writing a reflecting paper and leading a case discussion with group), individual project which is a paper, and group project which is a paper and presentation.

Very easy class, but if you want to learn something-DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS

Enjoyable course, but participation of classmates can greatly affect enjoyment of course.

The professor teaches at an incredibly slow pace and may seem difficult to approach. But he does offer some very good insights on management issues and corporate decision making processes.

Best strategy class I've taken. Professor is excellent

This class was really beneficial and the best part was going through cases each class that were interesting and relevant to current events. The professor moved slowly at times, but it was only to ensure we understood the concepts. Workload is minimal as well, with 75% of the final grade based on a group project.