Reviews of professor Mehdi Darban

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Good instructor overall who is caring and wants students to succeed. Always available by email and responds quickly. Love that he provides a video study guide review before the weekly exams. There is a lot of info in the class but by reading the slides, taking notes, listening to the video, and participating with your group project you'll do well.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Be prepared for the major semester-long group project! Hopefully you are assigned a good team - the project scope itself isn't very difficult but the instructions are outrageously long and confusing. Exams are pretty straightforward and the subject matter is presented in an engaging way.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. D is an average professor.  He excels at quickly responding.  His lectures are subpar because of the quality.  His tests are annoying at best because of the wording.  The class is basically one big powerpoint with tests.

The group project is abysmal.  With any group project, you deal with lazy people.  This was the major downfall to his class.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor has zero interaction with you and changes the syllabus without notification. Relies on TA's to conduct entire class. Group project starts at beginning and is pretty demanding. Graded discussion, quiz or test, and milestone for project due every week. Case studies are extremely boring.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Dr. D is absolutely wonderful! I learned so much in MBA703. There is a group project throughout the semester but as long as you communicate what grade you expect out of the class the group members are easy to work with. His tests are based off the powerpoint presentations he provides and are fairly easy. As long as you do the work you'll pass.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Darban seems like a good guy that cares. There is a MASSIVE group project in his course that comes with about 70 pages of instructions. It's intimidating, but not terrible. I had a good group, so it worked. I could see this course being miserable if you were paired with duds. Would not recommend if you're the type that can barely make time.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
AVOID! By far the most amount of work assigned in an LSUS MBA course. Time consuming. 478pp textbook front->back. Grp project manual is 35pp long + 11pp grading rubric. 350 characters isn't enough, but please take my word for it.. don't take this professor unless you want to spend all of your waking hours outside of work on this class for 7 weeks.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
group project-if your team sucks, you are gonna fail this course. 6 quiz-tricky questions. must read book and ppt slides 2 exam-mix of quiz questions and trick questions discussion forums-these were actually very fun but they are graded tough! would not take again though, this professor is hard and very specific but to be fair it is MBA program!