Learner Reviews & Feedback for Foundations of Business Strategy by University of Virginia

The course content is very good and well presented BUT the course requirement of submitting 3 peer reviews is not practicable at all. I have been trying to find assignments to review for almost a week and there are none. This unnecessarily delays me finishing the course, which will in turn lead to me having to pay for another month's subscription. I am very disappointed in this and I wish course requirements would be adjusted for future students.

Purely academic, has very little to do with actual business strategy. None of the trainers has business experience to share which makes this course irrelevant.

I gained much from this course. However, the final assignment is quite difficult to complete for students with no access to data on companies and industries. Had that been readily available (without an exorbitant fee to data providers), I would have rated the course with 4 stars.

This course is one of the best business strategical courses I came across. I learnt lot from this course especially an important fundamentals of business strategy.

Very good course structure. Good lectures and lecturers. Good additional material and in general a very interesting course on the foundations of Business Strategy. Highly recommended!

A great introduction to business strategy tools (which gets exponentially more complex when you apply them in the follow-on course!). I really appreciated the deep but approachable theoretical discussions of economic rents, and the professor's serious efforts to bring together business and economic principles. As a former student of economics, it gave me a great anchor point in the course.

While I really appreciate the case-based method, the volume of students just isn't high enough to allow for much vigorous discussion on the forums (or wasn't for me). I would highly recommend taking the course with a friend or colleague and setting aside time to connect each week to get the most out of the case discussions.

Overall, the contents are too fluffy and not very tangible. I appreciate though putting the tools into action and having to work on the competitive position assignment, it provides great insights on what matters in a competitive market. As an optimization proposal I suggest to cover the resources of week one, like terms and formulas. That is much more crucial than some of the fluffy contents. Also the companies discussed during the course should not be more known global companies (like Redhook, or the food market examples), hence not to restrict it to USA.

Foundations of Business Strategy course was really very helpful for me to expound my knowledge with regard to business strategies.

Awesome !

Excellent course materials and timely upgrade my knowledge in current profession

Great course!

excellent

Great learning..

Really great course aimed at learning the fundamental building blocks of strategy. Loved the "Strategist's Toolkit"!

This is a concise course which had helped me consolidate my knowledge about business strategies and competitive positioning. Overall, the lectures and assignments are well designed for best understanding of the subject and application in the real world, for a beginner

I enjoyed this course. Definitely learned a lot of information on Analysis that I did not know before. Will be able to use what I learn in position.

The very best course on business strategy!

Very interesting course. Very clear structure and usability of the given tools. Nice case studies to train practice.

Very good methodology, teachers and content I recommend it.

Great content, very informative, well-made and professional. Thanks!

good course

find alot knowledge in easy way

BEST HELPING MATERIAL FOR TRAINING AND UNDERSTANDABLE LECTURES

Excellent Course material. Great Professors.

This is a great course overall! I can't wait to take up the other courses in this specialisation.

Excellent teaching and content