MGMT 159
Foundations of Business and Entrepreneurship
Description: Lecture, three hours. Introductory overview of core areas of business and entrepreneurship including accounting, finance, marketing, operations, organization behavior, and strategy. Discussion of concepts in context of large existing organizations, small businesses, and new entrepreneurial ventures. Students gain solid foundational knowledge of components of business as well as how organizations are managed in increasingly competitive and global economy. Letter grading.
Units: 4.0
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Winter 2023 - Please if I can leave you with one piece of advice is DO NOT take Professor Nathanson while at UCLA. Whether you're an Econ major or not, DO NOT take this Professor. I've been fortunate to have some really incredible Professors at UCLA, but this man should not be teaching. He has a career in Entrepreneurship, but he should not be teaching. The concepts are not explained at all, his tests are incredibly unfair (though he'll argue with you that they are) and he constantly insults his students when they ask questions that are considered "basic" or "stupid" according to him. He took a poll at the beginning of this quarter to see what students were in his class. 75 out of 280 students were Econ majors. Professor Nathanson explained that the "majority" of the class was therefore Econ and he would teach more advanced topics and not clarify basic accounting principles because the class was "mostly Econ" despite the majority of the class being humanities and science majors with no Entrepreneurship or Accounting experience. The midterm was not at all what he prepared us for. I studied for 2 weeks all of the in-depth terms that were in the weekly chapter assessments and the exam contained none of those concepts. The average on the midterm was a 60%, but the Professor argued with those who tried to ask questions by saying that the exam was "completely fair." Professor Nathanson also insulted all the students who needed scratch paper on the test, saying that the math was simple and those who needed scratch paper were clearly unprepared for the class and needed to go back to reviewing simple math. If you can avoid Professor Nathanson in your time at UCLA, I would plead with you to do so. His class made many of his students insecure about their intelligence, frustrated about their grade, and hopeless with the lack of help and poor lectures. In my time at UCLA, I've never ever left a negative review, nor have I EVER contacted the department on behalf of a Professor. However, this Professor should not be teaching at UCLA.
Winter 2023 - Please if I can leave you with one piece of advice is DO NOT take Professor Nathanson while at UCLA. Whether you're an Econ major or not, DO NOT take this Professor. I've been fortunate to have some really incredible Professors at UCLA, but this man should not be teaching. He has a career in Entrepreneurship, but he should not be teaching. The concepts are not explained at all, his tests are incredibly unfair (though he'll argue with you that they are) and he constantly insults his students when they ask questions that are considered "basic" or "stupid" according to him. He took a poll at the beginning of this quarter to see what students were in his class. 75 out of 280 students were Econ majors. Professor Nathanson explained that the "majority" of the class was therefore Econ and he would teach more advanced topics and not clarify basic accounting principles because the class was "mostly Econ" despite the majority of the class being humanities and science majors with no Entrepreneurship or Accounting experience. The midterm was not at all what he prepared us for. I studied for 2 weeks all of the in-depth terms that were in the weekly chapter assessments and the exam contained none of those concepts. The average on the midterm was a 60%, but the Professor argued with those who tried to ask questions by saying that the exam was "completely fair." Professor Nathanson also insulted all the students who needed scratch paper on the test, saying that the math was simple and those who needed scratch paper were clearly unprepared for the class and needed to go back to reviewing simple math. If you can avoid Professor Nathanson in your time at UCLA, I would plead with you to do so. His class made many of his students insecure about their intelligence, frustrated about their grade, and hopeless with the lack of help and poor lectures. In my time at UCLA, I've never ever left a negative review, nor have I EVER contacted the department on behalf of a Professor. However, this Professor should not be teaching at UCLA.
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Winter 2026 - I've never written a review on bruinwalk but felt like I had to for this one. The one thing that I got out of this class is that Shawn Patt just wants to make money, even from his students who already pay tuition. The textbook he makes you purchase, he wrote with ChatGPT and proudly talks about it. Since he wrote the textbook, he makes $40 from every student in an 100 student lecture every quarter. I would say 40% of the class is actually learning entrepreneurship, and 60% is him talking about AI and how awesome it is (I wish this percentage were an exaggeration—it really was an unnecessary amount of AI talk that wasn't useful). Everything in this course is made by AI. Your exams, assignments, and the syllabus. EVERYTHING is made by Ai. There will often be mistakes/errors because of this. Shawn Patt is a hardass about tardiness, so if you have to walk across campus and end up being 5 minutes late, do not take this class because he cares. I'm honestly very disappointed after taking this class (especially since this was my first one in the entrepreneurship minor—I was so excited!) All the guest speakers that come in and companies that he has direct involvement with/he invested in + these companies really try to market themselves to us, so it still feels like he wants to make money from us one way or another. BTW, one of the guest speakers he brought on justified a makeup business that fully did a racist makeup campaign that they helped start up. He really does not care about his students, and it's honestly disappointing and discouraging the way he prioritizes his cash flow (haha) and AI. Anyways, I learned very little, mostly everybody did badly on the exams (but he does a crazy curve on it, making it seem like ppl did okay on it) bc the way he lectures is just reading off slides, nothing more engaging than that. Pretty disappointed, and more disappointed at the fact that there are people like Shawn Patt in the world who get fulfilled from making money from students. Lastly, every word that comes out of him is discouraging; he is not a positive lecturer/person. Shawn Patt, if you're reading this, rethink the way you teach, speak, and really think about who's in the lecture seats. I know that little brain of yours may not think as well as it used to because it's plugged into ChatGPT and gemini 50% of the time, and the other 50% is thinking about how you can make your income bigger every month.... but maybe, JUST maybe (just an idea)—put down the Ai. Go outside (a golf course in calabasas doesn't count) and think outside the box for once :)
Winter 2026 - I've never written a review on bruinwalk but felt like I had to for this one. The one thing that I got out of this class is that Shawn Patt just wants to make money, even from his students who already pay tuition. The textbook he makes you purchase, he wrote with ChatGPT and proudly talks about it. Since he wrote the textbook, he makes $40 from every student in an 100 student lecture every quarter. I would say 40% of the class is actually learning entrepreneurship, and 60% is him talking about AI and how awesome it is (I wish this percentage were an exaggeration—it really was an unnecessary amount of AI talk that wasn't useful). Everything in this course is made by AI. Your exams, assignments, and the syllabus. EVERYTHING is made by Ai. There will often be mistakes/errors because of this. Shawn Patt is a hardass about tardiness, so if you have to walk across campus and end up being 5 minutes late, do not take this class because he cares. I'm honestly very disappointed after taking this class (especially since this was my first one in the entrepreneurship minor—I was so excited!) All the guest speakers that come in and companies that he has direct involvement with/he invested in + these companies really try to market themselves to us, so it still feels like he wants to make money from us one way or another. BTW, one of the guest speakers he brought on justified a makeup business that fully did a racist makeup campaign that they helped start up. He really does not care about his students, and it's honestly disappointing and discouraging the way he prioritizes his cash flow (haha) and AI. Anyways, I learned very little, mostly everybody did badly on the exams (but he does a crazy curve on it, making it seem like ppl did okay on it) bc the way he lectures is just reading off slides, nothing more engaging than that. Pretty disappointed, and more disappointed at the fact that there are people like Shawn Patt in the world who get fulfilled from making money from students. Lastly, every word that comes out of him is discouraging; he is not a positive lecturer/person. Shawn Patt, if you're reading this, rethink the way you teach, speak, and really think about who's in the lecture seats. I know that little brain of yours may not think as well as it used to because it's plugged into ChatGPT and gemini 50% of the time, and the other 50% is thinking about how you can make your income bigger every month.... but maybe, JUST maybe (just an idea)—put down the Ai. Go outside (a golf course in calabasas doesn't count) and think outside the box for once :)
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