In terms of concrete value, this course may not handout a lesson or framework. It just shows different colors of business, and the different colorations we each give to the domain of business (as business people making decisions within this world). It is a trip to discover/analyze the psychology of speakers, and to ponder what may have made them successful.

Not all speakers are great in presenting or in the amount of success they've seen in the market -- they are just different. Some of them seem to have a SCU-culture inclination that draws them here (be it either to recruit bright students or to give back). Like most management classes, if one loves quant/data/analytics it leaves you hollow, i.e., it almost sounds amateur/trivial common sense (if not b.s); or stirs a lot of questions without providing concrete answers.

Although it may turn out to be puffy and flowery talk that doesn't stick, on the other hand it may help you integrate the lessons from various management, finance, sales, operations and innovation subjects into a single approach. For example, "a single approach" with respect to priorities in business decision making, even if as flavors of executive personalities.

My personal pleasure was in presenting a business idea of "Measuring Intangibles" as a part of the assignments, since it happened to be already on the lines of integrating all lessons taught in MBA coursework into sort-of "one over-spanning system of thinking". In the process, I was able to "see/explain" why the findings of the book we read matched the real world, specifically, in terms of economic concepts.

See:
The Challenge of Measuring Intangibles
Starting up a business around Measuring Intangibles

- Kaleem Aziz.