Michael Padhi

This professor has taught: BMGT340, BMGT340F, BMGT340N, BMGT343, BMGT345, BMGT365, BMGT445, BMGT446, BUFN740

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Michael Padhi BMGT340 Anonymous 02/28/2024	He was an excellent professor and really explained the concepts well. Highly recommend.
Michael Padhi BMGT340 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/22/2023	Great professor. Structure of the class forces you to learn and there are plenty of extra credit opportunities.
Michael Padhi BMGT340 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/19/2023	Padhi is a great professor and I would recommend him for anyone taking BMGT340. He is a nice person but also very knowledgable on finance topics and explained each chapter well. The exam problems tend to be much harder than the class or homework practice problems, but he posts a lot of practice exams and does a recorded review session so it is very easy to cram study for his midterms and do well. The final exam is optional if you are happy with your grade in the class, and the 5% extra credit added at the end helps a lot.
Michael Padhi BMGT340 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/17/2023	Great professor! He is great at explaining complex topics and is incredibly patient with students. He is extremely organized and provides you with all the resources you need. Plus, there's extra credit. Go to lectures, pay attention, and watch videos, and you should be perfectly fine. He's very passionate about what he teaches and is highly knowledgeable. One of the best professors at Smith.
Michael Padhi BMGT340 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/13/2023	Padhi is an excellent professor. All the resources are available on his ELMS page which is also very organized and cohesive. There are plenty of assignments to help learn the material, and his lectures are quite easy to follow along with. Attendance isn't mandatory, but I found them helpful in reinforcing the material we were asked to do in video quizzes required to be completed before class. He is very receptive to questions and is a very chill professor. Tests are straightforward and reflect the material from class and prior exams which Padhi provides you with. My only qualm about this class would be that the TAs this semester were not very organized, but overall Padhi is the best professor to take BMGT340 with!
Michael Padhi BMGT340 Expecting an A- Anonymous 11/30/2023	Padhi is a great teacher, who grades very quickly and offers a handful of extra credit that is straight forward (3-4%). Homework can take time but are reasonable. The class lectures are required to participate in grades via Learning Catalytics but we literally just go over questions and the vast majority of the learning is in the homework, so the lecture is pretty useless but required for the points. We have a project worth 10% of the final grade, and it is supposed to be explained by the TAs. The TAs however were very incompetent when it came to the project reviews. They would hold the reviews at night but assure people that they would be posted. Not only did they forget to record the review a few times, and then when they actually did record it they forgot to record the audio... Another time they literally did errors in the recording. Overall Padhi is great but the TA's this semester were in charge of the projects and they missed up like 80% of the reviews which was annoying.
Michael Padhi BMGT340 Expecting an A Anonymous 11/10/2023	Padhi is great. He is really good at making everything easy to understand and does a great job connecting everything we learn in class to the real world. All assignments are pretty easy to do well on. Make sure to write everything you possibly can on the cheat sheet for the tests and you should be fine. He is also such a great guy and deeply cares about his students. Only thing is he tends to talk a lot about unrelated things and goes on some tangents but I highly recommend him for BMGT340.
Michael Padhi BMGT345 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 05/25/2023	Finance is finance. Wish I didn't have to take it. Exams 1 and 3 were easy but exam 2 destroyed me. Luckily final is optional and if you take it drops the lowest exam (otherwise don't take it you keep the 3 mid-terms). Class all online, person HW and quiz annoying but not terrible. I advise speed through first attempt, take pics of the worked formulas and then take second attempt (diff numbers same format). Padhi's videos were easy to follow, had good examples.
Michael Padhi BMGT340 Expecting an A+ neshoger 05/16/2023	One of the two good professors I've had out of 6 professors for this semester. Padhi teaches the course and explains very well. His teaching materials on Canvas, especially on the video lectures he made, helped me understand finance a lot more than Pearson's textbook would ever. Just using the practice exam and you'd do well on the exams. Padhi is a lot better than MacDonald and Santosh. I'm glad that I had Padhi for this semester!
Michael Padhi BMGT340 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 12/23/2022	Incredible professor. He was extremely understanding when it came to having to miss class for religious observances or health issues, and he truly cares about each and every one of his students. He makes an effort to answer emails quickly and is happy to help however he can. He also gives many opportunities for extra credit and his TA's are incredibly helpful as well. Would 100% recommend him to anyone taking BMGT340.
Michael Padhi BMGT340 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/23/2022	I absolutely loved Dr. Pahdi. For each chapter I would watch the video, take notes and just pay attention in class. Everything done during class and most of the homework assignments are directly related to the material. Overall I did minimal work for this class, just did all the practice exams and did very well on all the exams. Dr. Padhi cares about you as a student and your success in this class. As a senior graduating this spring, Dr. Padhi was one of my favorite professors I've ever had at UMD.
Michael Padhi BMGT340 Expecting a C Anonymous 09/12/2022	I took Padhi second half of summer. He tries his best to make us understand the basic concepts within the short period we had together. His TAs were amazing and they both tried their best to answer every question as best as they could.
Michael Padhi BMGT445 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/14/2022	Honestly with everything I've heard about other professors, this class is definitely worth taking with him. He's a really nice guy and we're all seniors and after the first exam he said I promise this class won't be the reason anyone doesn't graduate like don't worry if you didn't do well. He's given extra credit and is super lenient with the quiz/project grading so the A's are automatic in that category. I'm taking 6 classes this sem and this one is my favorite, the material is learnable and if you reach out he is willing to help you whenever you need. Man has office hours every single day just in case students need to talk to him that exact day. Great guy
Michael Padhi BMGT340 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 05/04/2022	The course is straightforward, if you do your work and study it's easy to get a high grade. Padhi is a nice guy and genuinely cares about his students.
Michael Padhi BMGT340F Expecting an A Anonymous 02/03/2022	Nice dude, goes too fast to let him know. Extra credit is helpful, go to TA hours!
Michael Padhi BMGT340 Anonymous 01/21/2022	He spends the entire class oversharing about his personal life. Speeds through the practice problems and is overall not helpful. His jokes are not funny. Students chuckle because they're just that bad. He pretends to be approachable but truly does not care. Exams are very difficult for some. You pretty much have to rely on the TA's for help. Super unorganized and the recent grading structure makes it so that exams are the biggest indicator for passing/failing. Nothing else you do for points matters.
Michael Padhi BMGT340 Expecting an A Anonymous 04/19/2021	Padhi is a great professor. This is a tough class but he makes it manageable. Clearly cares about his students and does his best to give us the resources to do well in the class. Exams are hard but if you study using past exams you will probably be fine. We do a ton of practice problems in class which makes it easier to learn. He is receptive to questions in class and doesn't talk down to students like other professor's do sometimes. Definitely recommend taking him for 340!
Michael Padhi BMGT340 Expecting an A spotluri 03/23/2021	Padhi is one of the best business professors i've encountered. He knows the material inside-out. The flipped classroom is not my favorite model but this course makes it work extremely well - you are expected to watch a short video lecture and complete basic review before attending the live lecture, where Padhi works out several examples and goes over each concept and formula. Very receptive to questions (I've never been to office hours but asked questions in class) and doesn't assume that his first method of explanation is going to work for everyone. Zoom U was great with Padhi because he shows his dogs and kids sometimes. The course provides a good amount of weekly work but each assignment is valuable and does not feel like busywork. There is adequate extra practice if you want to prepare for an exam or if you don't understand a particular concept. Exam questions can be tricky but similar practice is always provided beforehand. Real-world examples keep the course interesting and applicable. All around a fantastic course and professor. I literally made a planetterp account to write this review because this was great.
Michael Padhi BMGT340 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 02/11/2021	y'all take padhi for summer finance classes! I took BMGT340 with Padhi for Summer 2020 and it was honestly the best decision I've made for classes so far (that and taking COMM107 over the summer). Padhi was engaging and he made tough topics make sense. The volume of work was pretty intense, especially with a condensed class, but we got to meet his the service dog he's training (Dole) and he genuinely cared about his students. In my class, exams were open-note but he encouraged us to make one formula sheet and that helped so much. Exams were tough and every exam had an oral portion where you meet with the TA or Prof Padhi for fifteen minutes and solve a question. Padhi told us exactly what the oral question would be and the things we had to study, so as stressful as being on a Zoom call with just the prof is, he did his best to prepare us. Also, grading for oral portion is super lenient as long as you just explain how you got there well, even the wrong answer will get you pretty decent partial credit. I was terrified of taking BMGT340 but I would highly encourage anyone who can to take it over the summer with Padhi, you'll have to grind, but it's really better than taking it during the semester.
Michael Padhi BMGT340 Expecting an A- Anonymous 02/09/2021	Not sure why Padhi has no reviews yet but I guess I will write one for him. If you're choosing between him and Hallows, I'd say choose the lesser of 2 evils and pick Padhi. I'm sure he would never show the lack of respect and empathy Hallows showed after a student's family member was affected by covid-19. Now for the actual course, it wasn't bad. Padhi himself is a boring lecturer and you do most of the learning from the textbook anyways. Classes are only for doing example exercises and doing clicker questions for participation credit. The exams are complete trash and I say this as someone who managed to get an overall A-. I can only imagine how those who did worse felt. The 1st exam was good. But the 2nd, 3rd, and final were terribly written. One question didn't even have a correct answer and he didn't realize this until midway thru the exam, forcing many students to waste time figuring out what was wrong. There are also live cases hosted by visiting banks/firms, but I can say most people found them completely useless. And the worst part is they even asked questions about the cases on the exams. Overall UMD definitely needs to change up this course, make it more like BMGT230 where you actually do learning in class. Or remove Padhi and Hallows and actually hire competent professors to teach business finance. Either option would improve this class tremendously.