Alan Kaplan

Took MB8019 the MBA finance course. Prof goes on insane tangents that make no sense, only way I got through class was through leaning on my group. The textbook and mindtap were our holy grail. However, exam was insanely easy, spent way too much time stressing over it. Course could be taught better by someone else for sure.

Overall a really nice prof with a dry sense of humour that made class much more enjoyable. He explains the concepts well and at a good pace. Do note that his exam had questions based on something briefly mentioned for 5 seconds in class, so make sure you take notes on everything he says at all times, including what you think is unimportant!

Not the best. Not the worst. He tends to call students out for answers which is definitely not something a prof should be doing in 2025

Do not take! Very bad!

Get a good group and work on the case as soon as it releases, Attend class and take detailed notes on what he does / talks about, Follow all of his instructions/guidelines to a T.

His lecture is pretty boring and useless. gives assignments almost every Thursday night and is due Tuesday at midnight. Harsh marking on the assignments. make exam extremely difficult.

AFF713 is a difficult course. The cases were marked harshly considering the lack of instructions, but overall, weren't impossible. Highly suggest taking detailed notes during the case class, the final exam asked very specific questions about them but was fair. Alan is a really nice person and very easy to access outside of class to ask questions.

prof is good, just make sure to attend class as final has a bunch of questions from the in class examples he does. other than that just follow his format to a T and you will do just fine

He's fine. Weekly case assignments seem hard but follow his formate even with wrong numbers, you will get most marks. His classes are very boring, but u should go to his case classes because the final exam has specific questions from in class discussions and take ups (its open book final so take pictures of his work, he doesn't post it after) .

he makes this course unnecessarily difficult. the final exam asks EXTREMLEY specific questions about content we covered in class, so if you didnt take the most detailed notes in your life you wont be able to answer the exam questions. him/ his TAs mark very hard on the memos too. also, if you dont have a good group for the projects, you MUST drop.