Single worst professor I've had at UCLA. I changed technical breadths because of her. "Finance and Marketing" was a disorganized 10 weeks in which I took away nothing.

It's literally 12 days after the grade deadline and I have no grade. It has literally been almost a month since the final and we have no grades. Mel is a piping hot mess. She is actively horrible at her job. She is a bad teacher. She does not respond to questions. She does not respond to emails. SAVE YOURSELF!!! DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS!!! IT SUCKS!!!

The lectures are pretty hard to pay attention to. They can be very meandering and hard to follow. The good news is that the discussions cover all the content you need to know and she is *super* helpful in office hours.
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The class itself isn't too bad, it's basically a ton of formulas and algebra problems. Had a sort of 8th grade vibe to it. The tests are fair. There's weekly current events that can get annoying but are easy and sometimes interesting.
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The biggest complaint I have with the grading is the opacity. I ended up with a B+ in the class, which slightly surprised me since I thought I did well on the final, so I emailed her asking if I could see what I missed on the final. She responded two weeks later, and she was very nice about it and agreed to set up a zoom call to talk to me - which I felt was very generous. I knew I was ambitious in what I was asking, so I was a little surprised that she accepted. Unfortunately, she never showed. I sat and waited on the zoom call for 30 min at the time she choose. I don't care if you don't respond to emails but if you make a commitment to talk to someone at a certain time you either a) let the other person know you're not coming or b) honor it. I felt it was disrespectful.

Not as bad as what other comments say. Meliha is helpful and accepts after-class meetings and long office hours unlike other professors, and cares about students' feelings. The course scheme is indeed disorganized, but that is because it is impossible to squeeze the very concept of corporate finance in a quarter--MBA students spend a year on the same concepts.

Personally, I've had 10+ misgraded quizzes and a misgraded midterm, but in the end they were all fixed. Do come to the class for the last three weeks, as Bond value is a crucial concept on the final. Otherwise, just go along the schedule so one would expect him/herself to be fine. Remember to find a bunch of above average group members in advance. (this is a comment based on experience rather than discrimination. if you took the class you would know that half of the students do not study for the materials at all. I had a group of 5 with 2 people spending 2 days writing a 100-word summary, 1 copying the company description and analysis from preexisting documents, and 1 applying simple arithmetic average to the stock price over 5 years to demonstrate that its variance is large.)

Mel is unbelievably lazy. We finally received our grades yesterday, more than a month after the final exam. Like the other reviews have said, she makes a lot of typos on the homeworks and exams, which are very annoying. If she actually took the time to respond to the Piazza posts, they would probably be less annoying.

Mel is so disorganized it's not even funny. It's Friday of week 2 of Summer Session A, and nobody in the class has a grade back yet. She even emailed us 10 days ago saying "letter grades will be posted in 48 hours", and 48 hours came and went and nobody got a grade. Every assignment, which consisted of just 5 homeworks, 1 final exam, and 1 final project, all were done in groups of 4 people (barring the exam), meaning that she had only a quarter of the amount of grading as other professors do, yet still we have no grades back. It's completely ridiculous at this point. On top of that, there was a Piazza forum for the course, but I honestly have no clue why she even went through the trouble of making the forum as she literally never goes on it, when she really should considering all of the typos that she has on the homeworks. Speaking of those typos, they're pretty bad. For example, on our final exam (which she didn't allow us to ask questions for the first hour so none of us would cheat, don't know how that works) she completely neglected to upload a table of numbers for a long question which involved performing calculations with those numbers. So you could imagine the distress of the entire class wondering "are we just supposed to say what we would do if we were given numbers?" Don't get me wrong, Mel seems like a very nice person, she just really shouldn't be teaching if she remains as disorganized as she is and has been according to the other reviews here. If you're reading this review and are considering taking this for your tech breadth, I really recommend waiting until another professor teaches this course or just taking MGMT courses as those seem to be way better (and organized).

Lectures get quite boring after a while but all you need for the exams are in the textbook and ppt she posts online
***Selling textbook, text ********** if interested***

Really cares about students, but is extremely disorganized leading to the class becoming more challenging than it needs to be

Absolutely insane experience. worst teacher i have ever had. She had quizzes due with codes she misspelled or forgot to give the codes for that would automatically be a late and 0. It took her weeks to respond with multiple emails (6+ emails). She even graded people’s final projects marking people down (-18%) for a missing section of the project that was not even asked for. She was insanely disorganized and is impossible to get a hold of. She messed up multiple times in things that should have been easy and she even taught a part of accounting saying “everyone has been doing this” and it is illegal… take her if it is your last choice only

A bit disorganized, but overall Mel has good intentions and class isn't too difficult. Very generous grading policy where > 85 % = A

The topics aren't too difficult, but tests were a little tricky with ~ 70% midterm average, ~ 60% final average. Midterm grading was a bit harsh.