Looking for a gentler semester? Start with courses where students have earned higher grades.
Highest historical GPA first. At least 100 letter grades over the five years through the selected term. Grades reflect past outcomes, not workload or a guaranteed result.
Historical grades cover up to five years through the selected term. Only courses with at least 100 letter grades are ranked.
MHR 734: Venture Creation teaches students to evaluate, formalize, and communicate new venture ideas while developing original product or service concepts.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
Historical reviews of Phillip Kim: Phillip Kim assigned excessive prep work and busy work with no educational value, which reviewers found absurd and disconnected from real-world application.
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Fall 2022–Fall 2025Examines team dynamics and effectiveness factors to develop skills in diagnosing team issues and enhancing teamwork expertise.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
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Fall 2022–Fall 2025MHR 434: Venture Creation teaches students to evaluate, formalize, and communicate new venture ideas, requiring a student-originated concept.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
Historical reviews of Philip Greenwood, Stefan Koehler: Workload challenges include a difficult final project that suffers from poor group dynamics and a lack of in-class structure, requiring significant independent reading on external platforms.
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Spring 2022–Spring 2026MHR 720 teaches leaders how to enact, foster, and implement change, covering organizational transformations, crisis response, and performance improvement.
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Spring 2024–Spring 2026This course explores how leaders enact, foster, and implement change, covering organizational transformations, crisis response, and performance improvement.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
Historical reviews of Phillip Kim, Randall Dunham: Students report a significant amount of reading and plenty of work, noting that regular attendance and keeping up with the material are critical.
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Spring 2022–Spring 2026Covers bargaining theories and dispute settlement, focusing on applying these concepts through exercises and role-playing to improve negotiating skills.
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Spring 2022–Spring 2026MHR 722 teaches the activities and skills necessary to start and manage an enterprise, covering key decisions in business initiation.
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Spring 2022–Spring 2026MHR 628 covers the theory and practice of negotiations.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
Historical reviews of Jean Grube: Jean Grube's class challenges students daily, indicating a significant workload and effort requirement.
MHR 412 teaches management consulting principles, methods, and tools for diagnosing organizations and designing interventions.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
Workload consists of a large group project, in-class activities, and one midterm, with exams heavily based on the textbook rather than lectures.
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Spring 2022–Spring 2026MHR 614 People Analytics teaches hands-on data analysis skills to evaluate human capital policies and support data-driven decision-making in HR.
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Spring 2023–Spring 2026MHR 610 covers compensation theory and administration, focusing on wage determinants, structures, and their impact on employee attitudes and performance.
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Historical reviews of Barry Gerhart: Reviewers report that problem sets and group projects require significant time investment, though exams are limited to material in provided study guides.
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Fall 2022–Fall 2025MHR 715 teaches tools and concepts for generating value from innovation and technology within existing organizations.
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Historical reviews of Martin Ganco: Students must read 10-20 pages of case studies weekly, complete brief analyses, take online book quizzes, and finish a group project.
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Spring 2022–Spring 2026Advanced entrepreneurship course focusing on starting and growing new ventures.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
The course has a moderate difficulty rating of 4 out of 5 according to the single available review.
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Spring 2022–Fall 2025MHR 423 Strategic Management synthesizes core business disciplines to analyze corporate strategy and top management problems through case discussions.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
Historical reviews of Florence Honoré, Philip Greenwood: Philip Greenwood’s section included a 20-page strategic project and a midterm with a cheat sheet, described as laid back. Florence Honoré’s course required weekly quizzes and case studies, with manageable workloads for high grades.
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Spring 2022–Spring 2026GLOBAL ISSUES IN MANAGEMENT focuses on strategic management in global business, covering environmental analysis, global strategy, and subsidiary control.
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Historical reviews of Min Li, Randall Dunham: Workload expectations differ by instructor; Dunham’s exams focused on slides with no required textbook, while Li required extensive reading and testing on specific textbook details.
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Spring 2022–Spring 2026Strategic talent management course covering processes to align human capital with business strategy.
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Historical reviews of Maureen Miner, Rick Marolt: Workload includes group projects, a midterm, and weekly quizzes, with group work taking significant effort and grading described as hard or subjective by some students.
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Spring 2022–Spring 2026MHR 305 covers human resource management policies, practices, and techniques for staffing, training, labor relations, wages, and communications.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
The course typically involves three exams, one group project, and individual discussion assignments. While the material is considered straightforward, some students report that exams can be difficult due to disorganization, typos, or references to unprovided case studies.
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Spring 2022–Spring 2026Technology Entrepreneurship teaches undergraduate students the fundamentals of starting and managing technology-based new ventures.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
Historical reviews of Phillip Kim: The course involves a lot of pre-class work and heavily weighted participation, requiring preparation for potentially unproductive class discussions.
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Spring 2022–Fall 2025INTRODUCTION TO ARTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP provides a foundation for developing and launching innovative projects in arts, culture, design, and humanities.
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Fall 2022–Fall 2025MHR 310 teaches students to analyze business sustainability challenges and apply measurement frameworks for corporate decision-making.
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One reviewer rated the difficulty low, noting the class was easy enough not to stress over, while another rated it high.
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Spring 2022–Spring 2026Introduction to entrepreneurship covering founding teams, customer/market discovery, and starting and growing a business.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
Students report significant busy work and reliance on group projects, with one reviewer noting the course uses many different online platforms and lacks clear directions.
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Spring 2022–Spring 2026MHR 401: LEADING TEAMS examines team components and factors influencing effectiveness.
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Spring 2022–Spring 2026Covers the management of people and organizations, including diversity, motivation, leadership, and change management.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
James Windsor’s course is self-taught with no lectures, featuring vague, arbitrary exams and harshly graded group projects. Multiple reviewers report that getting an A is nearly impossible due to strict, nit-picky grading and lack of guidance.
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Spring 2022–Spring 2026