Professor Wilson has a fun energy and knows his stuff. However, the way he teaches is HORRIBLE! He focuses the classes total learning goal to memorize everything, like literally expects word by word answers. There are weekly quizzes that are 5-9 pages and he gives you about 15 mins. He will give you sample quizzes that are literally the same as the quiz you will take and you need to answer these quizzes word by word from the readings. So, basically memorize and then throw the information away. Same goes for your final exam that is half multiple choice and half short answer that is over 200 something questions. Unfortunately, he is the only professor that teaches 160 as of now so good luck.
His good points are that he does keep the class engaged by creating class discussions and mini group projects in class that are fun! But Wilson truly ruins the class by being a typical old school professor who wants you to throw up and forget information on paper. Rather than using that information we will forget and applying it in a better and more useful way that we students could better learn from and actually retain the information that we are being "taught"

I really enjoyed this class. Professor Wilson is really funny and we used engaging methods to learn (e.g. startup simulations and discussing the business news).
We had weekly quizzes that were pretty brutal tbh. They were usually almost identical to the practice quizzes but we had barely any time to complete them. I think barely anyone finished the first quiz. We all woke up after that lol. (Thankfully he’s drops your lowest grade). Also, you’re expected to know the answers from the readings word-for-word. On the positive side, you do get used to them by the third quiz at the latest. Also, studying properly for the quizzes is really great preparation for the final, which is pretty much a very long quiz.
The final was long (122 multiple choice and 40-something? short answer questions) and tricky. But it’s doable as long as you put significant effort into studying. Also be sure to read all the readings and slides fully at least once, because a few small details show up on the exam.
There are cases and a presentation that you will have to work on in groups. They aren’t very difficult or long.
Overall, this is a great class with heavy but doable workload. Would recommend taking Wilson.

The concept behind this class is fundamentally sound in that it's supposed be a general course analizing (almost) every facet of launching and running a business venture. However, the execution is quite messy and questionable.
First, you need to spend $100+ in course material among case studies and simulations that are compulsory since your grade depends on them.
Second, exams don't really test your knowledge. Rather, they test your ability to write down as much stuff as you can in your cheat sheet and type it verbatim as fast as you can in the answer boxes.
In general, I would say that this class has taught me more buzzwords than useful suggestions on how to run a business.
Finally, I was disappointed that no industry professional was invited to share their personal experience on the matter.

READ IF YOURE IN THE MINOR/ THINKING ABT IT

I have such mixed feelings about this class. If you’re in the entrepreneurship minor, you have to take it, and you will probably take it with Wilson, so you’re just going to have to grin and bear it. The structure of his class is actually really engaging and 3 hour lectures actually pass by pretty quickly, despite his no computers policy. This is because participation matters and it counts for your grade, so people are incentivized to speak. He uses study guides about the textbook as assignments which are pretty helpful for studying for his midterm and final, which are incredibly long and detailed. The final exam was 18 short answer questions (some with multiple parts), 12 short case questions, and 90 multiple choices questions.
The group work, which is a significant portion of your grade, is a tragedy, and be prepared for 1 or two people in the group (who you work with all quarter) to do ALL the work. People are more than happy to sit back and let you do all the leg work which makes for high blood pressure high stress, and copious amounts of tears all quarter. There is also a group presentation with a business pitch similar to Shark Tank. And because participation matters, it will feel like one, because other students will try and rip apart your idea to get their participation points in.
Wilson himself will probably make you feel stupid and bad about yourself, especially if you don’t agree with what he’s saying. But honestly, this seems to be a trend with all the middle aged white male management professors, which seem to be plenty in Anderson.

The reviews for this class are blown out of proportion. There is a good amount of busy work involved and some of the class material is pretty dry but the case studies are actually really insightful. Professor Wilson is pretty chill imo it seems like he has great experience in the field.

these reviews are way too harsh; not too difficult if you just pay attention in class and study (and midterm is open-note and short answer based, which means you don't need to worry about memorization as much as understanding the ideas). prof. wilson is pretty experienced and intelligent, wouldn't say he's particularly harsh or anything like what the other review do

What I wish I knew Before Taking the Class
1. Required to purchase 100 dollars worth of class material
2. Midterm, Group Presentation, and Final (remember to write down every single thing he says in class and whatever is in the assigned reading/textbook)
3. Always ask TA for help you may be able to find a lot of helpful information on how to prepare for the exam
4. Utilize study guides when preparing for the exam
5. Always always always participate in class.
6. Professor in my opinion was pretty funny but some view him to be not so caring of students (I don't disagree)
7. Assignments don't have a clear guidelines so make sure to start early and ask questions to the TA
8. 3 hours (once a week). Attendance is mandatory.

If you decide to take the class, go for it! Just know it's not gonna be easy. The exams can be brutal and a class that's 3 hours long can definitely drain you.

Engaging class, easy to do well if you take solid/thorough notes. Group grades seemed very arbitrary to me so I think it really depends on your TAs because they would mark things down for virtually no reason other than responses not being a sentence longer, etc.

Man, I've been waiting for a while to comment on this class overall. I know that there has been previous comments on this professor that were EXTREMELY harsh. I couldn't agree more with what they said. However, I would have to argue on the opinions during lecture where he would disagree with student's opinions. He changed that which was good. But I just want to go over on the class materials.

Participation: Its worth 20% of your grade. We understand that this is a Management class (Business) and as business women and men, we would have to communicate and be able to interact with one another. But this is a class, not a business session?? Some people may not even participation because they are shy or have a fear of speaking in front of the class. We've tried our literal hardest on not getting onto your bad side from what was seen before. If it was 10% it would have been better. Do you expect for us to speaking the majority of the time when there are students who "take over" and don't give a chance for others to speak?? Every lecture, he expects you to have your camera on. A friend of mine told me that she only went to get a bottle of water and turned off her camera for a few minutes and the professor gave her a warning?!? IT WAS LITERALLY SECONDS!!! CMON. Please respect student's privacy. We should have the right to turn off our camera. I mean, it's may seem uncomfortable at times, especially eating during class. I mean I felt super uncomfortable when i had my camera on and eating. I honestly HATE when people see me eat so please change that rule. At least he wasn't rude when people said their opinions. But usually, his face would change and I think he had favorites too. I won't say who but I felt at times, that he didn't want to hear from me at ALL. It happened quite a few times. For example, during "Newsweek" I would have an article. When I presented my article, his face became serious or bored. But when his "favorite" was next, his face light up. To me, it felt really upsetting. It also reflects on the grade I got....

Assignments/Case Studies: Damn. I hate the way the TAs grade it. No one's freaking perfect. There are specific requirements and usually the first one is by yourself. It wasn't pleasant. When your in a group, its better but I also think there was something suspicious about the way they grade. This also happened every case study we turned in. As we got our grades back, I would usually see my part (like a question and answer response) grade much lower than my group (peers). Sometimes, I thought "Is it because of my race? My ethnicity? Do they grade it harder on my part because I'm not good enough to do business?"

Exams: OMG I HATED THEM SO FREAKING MUCH. He uses Respondus so it makes way more FUN (not really). The first exam, as he says "is always the hardest one for students" or "students dont do well" Well, I WONDER WHY? 1) the first exam is literally 60 questions instead of 30 (because each question has two parts). You have an 1 hr and 10 mins to start it. WTF!! And this goes for the second one as well. The final is torture!!! 3 hours long (MC and Writing). Better yet, you dont even know what you got at the end (HE NEVER POSTED IT). The good thing is that he allows us to have study guides during the exam. The problem is, it wastes your time during the exam.

Group Project (Final Presentation): We literally had a final project the same time the final was so that made it so much worse. I still don't understand why he or the TAs grade it harder. We worked so hard on them to receive the grades we get. Let me remind them: THIS IS FOR PRACTICE ONLY.

TAs: I mean one of them was nice. The other, seemed really harsh. Marina is the nice one but unfortunately she's not going to be there. Sophia is the extremely harsh one. The weird part is that they weren't there all the time (like why??)

Professor: I mean rating from 1-100%, 70%. I just felt like there was some racism behind it but im not too sure.

If your taking this for the Entrepreneurship Minor, good luck. If your not, don't even bother taking this class. Take management 167 (Northrop is the best).

This was by far the worst class I have ever taken.

Professor Wilson is a unique professor in the worst way possible. Allow me to explain a few of the largest pain points.

1. Participation - It was agitating to have participation as a significant portion of the grade (20%) seeing as Wilson essentially treated questions and comments as something to check off a list. Rather than engage with thoughtful comments or questions - Wilson consistently glazed over them and opted to flex his surface-level knowledge on people who spoke up with very simple questions. For Wilson, our questions were not to help our understanding, they were to give him a platform to stroke his ego talking in circles about the concepts we would not ultimately be tested on. More on that later. Moreover, at the end of the course, we didn't even find out our participation grade - we got an email saying that if we want to know what our participation grade was we would have to schedule a 1 on 1 zoom meeting during the next quarter.

2. Weekly Assignments/Exams - The vast majority of time in this class was focused on us discussing the weekly case studies. Frankly, that's fine. It's fine to me that we discuss the work that we were doing every week. However, THERE IS NOTHING ABOUT THE CASE STUDIES ON THE EXAM. AKA - THE WORK WE DO AND FOCUS ON DURING THE ENTIRE LECTURE EVERY WEEK HAD ZERO TO DO WITH THE EXAMS. The exams were only on the readings which were given very very little attention every week. The exams also had very little application - the midterm was 100% based on memorization and had no multiple choice. The final was better, it had multiple choice and questions which let you try to apply concepts, but it was still a small portion in comparison to the overwhelming free-response memorization.

3. So much potential - I was very excited to take this class. I thought that this would be fun and the material would be interesting enough that the professor wouldn't matter. I was very wrong. Professor Wilson leads with a thesis that ultimately.... applying entrepreneurial skills and acting in a hands-on approach will lead to the best learning in entrepreneurship. It's crazy that he's able to acknowledge that then give a test with no multiple-choice and no concept application. For this reason, it really just left me feeling like I had nothing to gain from the material. If application is the foremost important aspect... Why are we not applying? To be fair, we applied some ideas to the case studies, but even then it was unclear what the takeaways were. For example, Wilson spent over an hour digging into Tesla and how Elon Musk was irresponsible and made horrible entrepreneurial decisions at every corner. The takeaway was to not be like Elon Musk (The man who added $120B to his net worth during a pandemic). Shouldn't we be trying to figure out what went right despite making mistakes rather than just ripping into how overvalued and stupid it is? Professor Wilson, you're missing the point of your own curriculum entirely.

In conclusion, I really really did not like this class. Read the rest of the reviews on Bruinwalk, and please don't take this if you just want to dabble in entrepreneurship because it seems like a fun course to add to your schedule. If you're doing the entrepreneurship minor, I'm sorry for you because Wilson is the head of the department and I believe this is one of the required classes.

Good luck!