madeinafrica wrote:
I have a question here for Riverripper (or any Kellogg grad)
What are the classes you would highly recommend based on the teachers? (ie which teachers do you consider ROCK STARS)
1) Steve Rogers
2) Kotler
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I will try to taillor my classes based on the teachers.
Once you have access to the Serial (student intranet), which you may already be able to access with your netid and password, you can look up the TCEs (professor and course evals) to see which professors are highest ranked and the course bidding results to see which professors students are willing to dump a lot of points for (both available under Course Information). From my experience and from talking to other students, the top professors, by dept, are: Rogers (Fin), Rebelo (Fin), Hennessy (Mktg), Calkins (Mktg), Grayson (Mktg), Besanko (Mgmt), Kraemer (Mgmt), Allon (Ops), Sawhney (Tech), McKeon (DECS), Galinsky (MORS), Medvec (MORS). Also, Financial Decisions (Fin-D), is widely considered a "must-take" course regardless of which professor is teaching. Kotler typically doesn't teach MBA courses, although he usually gives 1-2 talks a year that are open to all students.
Beyond the professors I've mentioned there are a lot of very good professors that are great teachers and who you will learn a lot from. The ones I've listed are the best of the best - that consistently get TCEs over 9.5 (out of 10) or consistently get nominated for awards (Faculty Impact, Professor of the Year, etc.). My suggestion to you is to think first about what courses you want to take while you're at Kellogg, then think secondarily about professors (ie delay taking a course until next quarter if a much better professor will be teaching it). In part, you want to make sure that you don't miss out on a good course just because it doesn't have a rockstar professor, but also the way course bidding works you won't be able to afford taking all rockstars (some professors I've listed *cough* Rogers *cough* Medvec *cough* can use up 1/2 your annual point allotment just for 1 class).