SUU ECON 6100 Blog

This blog was initiated by Dave Tufte, at the suggestion of students. It is a forum for SUU M.B.A. and M.Acc. students who have taken ECON 6100 to comment about the usefulness of this class for their other classes, degree, or career.


Only students who took ECON 6100 in 2004 were invited to post their thoughts here. There was no quid pro quo in that invitation.


I started this blog because students told me that this class is very worthwhile. Unfortunately, as an elective, this class does not have much of a constituency among the faculty to help guarantee that it will continue to be offered on a regular basis. I intend to show this blog to other School of Business faculty to make a case in support of this class.


Please do not view this opportunity as a way to support Dr. Tufte - I am only 1 of 3 people to have taught this class, and it is only 1 of 5 M.B.A. classes that I can reasonably be expected to teach at SUU. Also, don't use this as a forum to denigrate other professors or other classes.


Here are some suggestions (please feel free to expand upon this list). Was this class was more or less valuable than others you took? What did you learn that was so useful that you didn't learn in other classes? If you had to choose between this class and others that you took, how often would this class win (for example, ECON 6100 was better than half of my graduate classes)?


Please title your posts with either your name, or "anonymous".

Thursday, July 26, 2012

Spreadsheet Modeling Craft

ECON 6100 really helped me understand how to build spreadsheets better than I had been before taking the class. By increasing both my knowledge of Excel and changing the way I viewed a spreadsheet, Dr. Tufte changed the way my spreadsheets functioned for the next user. I am now able to create spreadsheets faster (better knowledge of key shortcuts and initial planning), more efficient (not building more than I need to) and build more complex models. The class wasn't overly difficult and could be seen as more about learning spreadsheets and modeling rather than an assessment of your knowledge. It was one of the most useful classes I took in the MBA program and I highly recommend it to people who want to improve their spreadsheet modeling skills.

posted by Eric | 2:46 AM

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