Reviews of professor Rick McPherson

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Had to specifically write this review to tell people not to take this professor. 2.2/5 SHOULD BE A SIGN. Take someone else. You will be so thankful you did. The "lectures" (if you can even call them that) contain NONE of the information you need to know. Also have to "Earn your grade" by doing a lot of extra useless, work. Median set at 2.9-3.0

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Lots of assignments, but overall a great guy. Solid grading rubric, clear expectations. Coursework could get a bit repetitive, and you'd have to do extra work to get 100, which is a bit weird. This class is centered on group projects, so choose your group wisely because it's like 35% of the grade. Very responsive, an inspiring teacher for sure!

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Rick tends to brag about how good he is at teaching. I've postulated arrogance comes with the need to overcompensate--such is the case with Rick. He does not cover any material, and expects you to learn basic concepts from a boring textbook. If you do 100% of the work, he'll give you an 85%, because you didn't do "extra." I got no value from Rick.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Pretty unlikable guy who seems to get a kick out of trying to catch his students on the wrong foot. The class was super repetitive with a lot of similar homework assignments. In these assignments you have to earn your grade, by writing an additional assignment in the appendix - if you want to get above 85%. Just an all round bad guy.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
MGMT430 with Rick is the most challenging, but arguably most rewarding class I have taken at UW. This course has A LOT of pointless busy work and if you're looking for the easy way out, I'd recommend taking this course with a different prof. But, Rick is great. He is extremely intelligent, helpful, and encouraging and will 100% bring out your best.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Rick is a great and knowledgeable guy and I enjoyed coming to lecture. Make sure you have a good group in this class because it is all group work. Case comp and marketplace simulation are super fun but take many hours

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
The first 4 weeks of class were hell; he gives you super complicated assignments without explaining how to do them (just assuming that everyone has been in a case comp before). Also, all of his slides are jumbled together and super confusing, and his quizzes all have trick questions that youll miss even if you study like crazy.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Boo. By just completing the assignments/projects you get 85%, you have to do extra research or other extra bull just to get closer to 100%. Also, an 85% in the class is a 2.7... Like, what even?

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
He's kind of a teddy bear; some people might like him for that. He has a fair amount of experience in the corporate world. Did I like him? Not really. it's all artificial experience that doesn't mean very much. He's one of the typical university faculty members who are pro China - No costs, all benefits. These people have mental problems.