Business Strategy

Teaches an integrative approach to strategic management, focusing on strategy formulation and implementation at business unit and corporate levels.

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Summary

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Historical reviews of Hart Posen: Reviewers report hundreds of pages of weekly reading and incredibly difficult tests, noting the workload is excessive for a three-hour weekly class.

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Prerequisites

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Graduate/professional standing or declared in graduate Business Exchange program

  • Graduate/professional standing or declared in graduate Business Exchange program
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  • Graduate/professional standing or declared in graduate Business Exchange program

Professors

Fall 2026

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Historical instructors & teaching patterns

Historical reviews for Hart Posen describe him as knowledgeable and humorous in Business Strategy, though reviewers felt the program was not a good fit for his teaching style. They cited excessive reading loads, vague requirements, and a heavy reliance on TAs as significant concerns.

HART POSEN is recorded teaching in Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Fall 2026

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Student experience

the class

Historical reviews for Hart Posen describe a knowledgeable but poorly matched instructor whose course is overly demanding for the time allocated, featuring vague requirements and difficult assessments.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.55 GPA, 71.5% A/AB (n=193 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.61 GPA, 83.7% A/AB (n=215 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.75 GPA, 92.5% A/AB (n=174 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Historical reviews of Hart Posen: Reviewers report hundreds of pages of weekly reading and incredibly difficult tests, noting the workload is excessive for a three-hour weekly class.

Historical reviews of Hart Posen: Students found the grading harsh and vague, with little direction provided for group projects and excessive reliance on teaching assistants.

Topics

  • Strategy formulation and implementation
  • Company and industry analysis
  • Business problem solving

Skills

  • Analysis of companies and industries
  • Application of knowledge to business problems
  • Strategy formulation and implementation

Grades

Historical instructor

Fall 2026 · Projected

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About this estimate

The course’s semester-average GPA, not an individual student’s grade. The center uses 6 recent terms, weighted toward recent results.

The range uses the finite-sample 80th-percentile rank of absolute errors from earlier same-season forecasts. Each forecast uses only records from earlier terms. At least four forecasts are required; bounds are rounded outward and limited to 0–4. This is an empirical estimate: changing instructors or grading policies can reduce its coverage.

8 earlier forecasts · 0.09 GPA average error.

Grades over time

Through Fall 2026

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Where this course fits relative to

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About this comparison

1283 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.

Sources & history

UW–Madison

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Model outputs & technical records
nvidia/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4
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