The least informative professor I have ever had. This class was a huge waste of time. It seemed like simply a platform for the Alan Fine show. He sold us his own self-help book as one of the texts... insanely self-centered.

this teacher is weird. he seems like he shouldnt be teaching. I wouldnt take another class from him, but it was kinda easy. He gave me a B- although I failed one test. Take this teacher if you want to get a decent grade for going half the time and not learning anything.

Hands down one of the worst teachers I have ever had. Aside from the fact that he used his teaching position merely as a vehicle to stand on his political soapbox, we learned almost nothing about the subject and received arbitrary grades on tedious and useless assignments. Uses "participation points" to justify any grade.

Echo the comments below. And Carlson wonders why their ratings have fallen off the deep end. It's because of teachers like Alan Fine and Raoul Schander.

It's no surprise Alan Fine's ratings are so low. He's a poor teacher, he talks himself up at every opportunity he gets and he makes his students feel dumb if they don't give him the answer he wants. If you're thinking Entre at the U, take Spruth. Alan might just ruin things for you; as he did for me.

i don't know what to say. i transferred into the U thinking i would get better quality professors than i had at augsburg. so far prof. fine has fallen well below standard. he's totally out of touch with students.

DO NOT...I REPEAT DO NOT TAKE A CLASS WITH ALAN FINE. Alan Fine is the most pompous, arrogant instructor I have ever been around. He makes you feel dumb for asking a question, he is inflexible on any and all assignments and his assignments are all ridiculous. I am almost out of room, but if you still take him after reading this, its a mistake!

The testing made no sense in this class, other than bubbles are easier to grade than essays. 450 students in one semester; no one with this many students in so few weeks, can accurately judge a students capabilities. Gave good lectures, however, will be forever remembered for those disagreeable test. That's too bad. Everyone left feeling angst.

I made a massive mistake by signing up for Alan Fine's class. It is extremely boring, and pretty much useless. Spend your hard earned money and time taking another class. This one is not worth it.

I have never looked around a room and see a group of students despise a professor so much. Alan brags about himself for majority of every class. Do not take a class with him, especially if you are a non-business student. I was really hoping I would learn something from this class, but Alan has convinced me to drop my entre minor.

Alan Fine is the most arrogant professor I have ever had. He gives assignments that are impossible and says he'll help, but when you ask for it he makes you feel dumb for asking and doesn't help at all. Lectures are boring & pointless - he only talks about how important he is and the people he knows. Don't buy the textbook either you won't use it.

Alan is very knowledgable in the subject he teaches. His lectures are extremely dry and revolve around him. His tests are all memorization and are fairly difficult (lots of content), however the medians are fairly low. He has little respect for his students and is often rude when asked questions outside of class either in person or online.

He spends his lectures talking about himself and his sucesses. His office hours continie to do the same. He played the piano in one of his office hours... His final exam study guide, when filled in, was 37 pages of content. Hands down the worst professor I have ever had

I wouldn't be surprised if many of the positive reviews are written by Alan Fine himself. Every Amazon review for his book is written by himself, and his entire lectures are him telling stories about how great he is. "I've read the entire memoirs of Thommas Jefferson. Wait, was Thommas Jefferson a president?"

I took one of Fine's classes and regret it immensely. A waste of money and time. Hands down the worst lecturer I have ever had. He is self centered, arrogant, boring, uninteresting. You have been warned!.

Worst professor ever. The most conceded and pretentious person I have ever met. The class is basically just Alan talking about himself and is based off a book he wrote himself. The exams will be hard cause u dont learn in the class. He will rarely get back to emails and treats students w/ disrespect. Most useless & boring class I have ever taken.

Terrible. Talks about himself for most of class, takes away from the actual material. Will not prepare you for tests, you'll need to do it yourself.

Alan fine is probably the worst professor I've had yet. He spend every lecture talking about himself or COVID-19 and rarely got into the class material. As for projects he was terrible at setting expectations or giving directions on them and would wait till after we turned them in to explain what we should've done and how we did poorly. DO NOT TAKE

Alan Fine could be considered as one of the unclear professors I have had. If you ever want to be on his good side, talk about his book (A familiar place) I remember this book for not reading its material but for his marketing tactics used on students to purchase his book. 0/10 I wasted money and I feel bad for him.

He bases his tests on his own philosophies that he has made up. There is an important material that we learn in class but he decides to test us on his perspective that he has made up. He views his ideas as the most important, which isn't right. We should not need to know his opinion. Also, grades at the 4000 level when taking a 1000 level class.

He does not respect students opinions or time. Poor time management skills. Biggest ego ever seen. Worst, most difficult professor. Changed up presentation order the night before (meaning I went from presenting on Wed to Mon), giving us less than 12hrs to prep. Vague instructions. Hard tests. Terrible teacher. Provides harsh, negative feedback.

Avoid at all costs, can't sugarcoat it. This class was harder than it needed to be because all the content was rushed at the end. If you want to be successful, study a LOT for the exams and participate in class. Grading can be pretty subjective and hard to predict.

avoid at all costs. all alan does is talk about himself and his experiences and looks down on those who don't know everything like he pretends to. he is extremely condescending, goes on tangents about his life and how easy everything was for him. workload isn't too bad and coursework would be fun if it was a different professor

Not a single assignment given leading up to the week 7 midterm and practically no guidance in study prep. His lectures are painfully boring, in a 60 minute recorded lecture he said the phrase in essence 46 times... Alan also pushes students to buy his book every chance he gets, seems unethical, which is ironic being that hes an ethics professor.

Alan's lectures have given me absolutely nothing, all he does it talk about himself and how amazing he is. And then he turns around and gives us a midterm on topics he has never even mentioned in lectures. Super vague assignment instruction and then grades on things that are not stated in the instructions. Very self centered and pretentious.

Professor Fine's instruction is not student-friendly. It honestly feels like he makes things harder for students, so he can use it as an opportunity to brag about his own accomplishments. He does not provide expectations on what he looks for in assignments. Overall, I would not recommend this class or professor to anyone.

Talks about how many amazing people he's met all day every day as if those are his biggest achievements. Boring-est ever. Better sign up for a year of Harvard Business Review or any Coursera management course and you'd learn 10x more. You'd learn more from listening to inspirational speakers on Youtube. Complete waste of time but had to take it. :(

Fine is the worst. Avoid him. Makes a 1000 level ethics class seem like rocket science. The "textbook" is a book that he wrote and his tests literally have questions referring to himself like he's a famous philosopher. "What are Fine's views on..." He never mentions test material in lectures just tells irrelevant life stories. Tests are brutal.

Alan may be the worst professor I have ever encountered. He is one of the most self-centered and egotistical people I have ever met. Our class barely heard the lecture/ppt notes because he would speak about himself, what hes done, or just some random story about himself. Im convinced he literally just likes to hear himself talk ABOUT HIMSELF.

This man is not fine. If you enjoy people talking about themselves, take this class. If you actually want to learn, find a different section with a different professor! This class wasn't terribly hard, but to endure such painful lectures is not worth it. Spends at least half of each lecture boasting about himself.

this is by far the worst professor to ever have in this university. he is a narcissistic man who makes it impossible to pass a class where he talks about himself for an hour and 15 minutes. he doesnt care about his students at all and could care less if they succeed. NEVER take any of his classes.

I cannot stress this enough, DO NOT TAKE a class with Fine. I thought I'd be okay but this course was horrible. Every class he will drone on about himself and how great he is. He has said many problematic things and I am very disappointed I had him as a professor.

Wanna hear about his books? The perfect class then. Talks constantly about his book and how you should buy it. Considers himself a god and writes questions about his own opinions like "what are professors Fine's views on.." Avoid this teacher at all costs. Every other option was full but it just happened all 3 of his were wide open!! awful

Loves pitching his book to students and tries to get students to purchase the book. Spends more time confirming he has a god complex than teaching about the actual class. Gives no information of what will be on the test and just makes it a surprise. Also writes questions on his own opinion and stuff you would know if you "read his book"

Talks about himself the entire class period. You don't learn anything on the slides and then get docked for not knowing the class material. Quizzes include questions about what his personal opinions are on business topics. Provides negative and sometimes harsh feedback and is condescending.

The class was easy, but Fine is the most insufferable professor I've ever had. He will rush through packed slides that contain the actual content of the course then ramble about his life and say generic insights that he thinks are his gift to the world. I'm convinced he only teaches to flex how successful he is to his students and sell his book.

The notorious Alan Fine. I was told not to take him and I gambled on him and boy did I mess up. I've never met someone so self-centered and egocentric. This isn't a management class, this is a class to learn about all of Alan Fine's successes in life. He expects quite a bit but leaves you only to prepare yourself. An A is manageable.

Proof of infamous deeds and silly little ego abound, but lets talk about the actual class structure and assignments. Tumescent obsession with 12 Angry Men, terrible, vauge assignment rubrics, these childish assignments would be breezy, except for ridiculously strange, vauge formatting requiremnts & TA, which are never clearly explained. AVOID

As a previous comment stated, save your soul. Alan really loves to hear himself talk as he spends the whole lecture giving his whole life story. Tests are awful and assignment directions are super unclear, when the average grade for an assignment/test is low he will send very passive emails which will ruin your whole day AVOID AT ALL COSTS!!!!

Class is filled with rambling, meaningless anecdotes rather than the material you'll be tested on. Tests are open book, but the test questions often have little to do with course material. Group assignments have confusing rubrics, which he grades very harshly. Imagine Jordan Peterson, with none of the insight and twice the ego.

I definitely would recommend waiting another semester to take this class with another prof. I really tried to stay in this class but I realized that there was no way I would do well in his class. He makes you buy the textbook that he wrote and never actually teaches anything useful in his lectures. Try to avoid.

In essence, do not take MGMT 1005 with Professor Fine. He's very egotistical and speeds through lectures to take more time to talk about himself. His tests are very difficult, despite them being open note and open book. He assigns group essays, and then penalizes students when they sound like "multiple students wrote them."

If you want to listen to TEDtalks about himself and his books, take him. This class would have been easy if he decided to actually teach class content. He claims that there is no need to buy his book for this class but then tests us on the content of HIS BOOK. He is a nice person but he is not a good prof.

Do not take his class. I read these reviews and I thought I would be okay but I was wrong. SUPER unclear in grading criteria and not helpful with questions. Never had office hours because he didn't show up to them! Tests were hard and made no sense. Very self centered and never really teaches material well.

"When I was a CEO", "In my book", so self centered. Do not take his class. Like everyone else, I thought I would be fine, but I hated every day listening to him. He is extremely disorganized and truly could not care less about the people taking his class. Very good speaker, and he is super interesting, but his words never come to a point.

Alan Fine is one of the most egotistical and self-centered people I have ever met. His lectures are almost entirely common sense and hold very little content related to the tests. His Canvas set-up is awful and studying for tests is next to impossible. The tests in general are extremely hard and all application-based.

Please don't take a Fine class, YOU WILL REGRET IT. Lectures consist of a mix of his life and how great he thinks it is, his book (which you have to buy), the success of his relatives, and about 15 minutes of skiing through the lecture slides. Please don't take it.

All of his lectures, without a doubt, turn into a 40 min "talk about his life" time where you are graced with his conceited tales. There are two group papers that he grades very harshly, so harshly in fact, that we all wonder why he even assigns them. He gives four extra credit assignments, they're easy if you write to please him, so do them! Avoid

Alan Fine was the worst professor I've had. Most lectures were spent listening to him talk about himself. Extremely narcissistic and a harsh grader. If you can avoid his section do it.

perAbsolutely horrible. Just teach yourself, and do well on group projects. He grades super harshly. Don't buy his book.

AVOID AT ALL COST. Fine is not a good teacher, and is the most self obsessed professor I have ever had. He bring in real life examples that don't actually help teach his point, but instead just come off as boasting about how much money he has made in business. He also is very hard to get ahold of, and his TAs aren't as helpful as you would want.

While Alan is very knowledgeable, he tends to use his class as an opportunity to boast. His lectures are 50% content related to the course and 50% stories of his accomplishments. His tests are fairly easy, but the final project was a nightmare.

Heard a lot of things about this professor, but gave him the benefit of the doubt. Should've listened to the reviews tbh. Spent the lectures rambling about unrelated topics, and when he actually did go through class content, he just read off the slides. Most of class is group work, but he is very picky and wants the assignments done his way.

Grading is completely arbitrary. You can follow the instructions exactly and still get penalized for things never mentioned. Also, you're forced to come up with some venture and then get a bad grade for it not being feasible. Like, of course it's not; we created it in an hour between four people who don't want to work together.