What a week it has been. The most hectic it has been in my life. We have attended social events and there was a case competition for the new first year students. It was really amazing. We have to analyze the case for 2 full days and present it to a team of 3 second years.
Our team worked a long 18 hours yesterday (8 AM to 2 AM) and when I went to bed yesterday it was 4:30 AM. I woke up by 8 AM as we have to present the case recommendations at 9:30 AM. We were not able to win the competition. But, there are alot of learnings from this.
1. Case should definitely show the financial implications of a particular recommendation. We missed on this part. Though we have got some estimates, we did not really incorporate them into presentation. The judges felt that it is very important to show numbers to back up recommendations.
2. The presentation should be more visual than we think it has to be. We have put lots of information into slides and I felt that it is not a god way. We have to put numbers and graphs into the presentation and explain them in the presentation rather than reading out the content from slides.
But, the financial estimate we did was really thoughtful. It made us think like if Apple introduces a new product, what will be the market for that?. To answer these type of questions, we need to make some assumptions based on the existing data and not just take some number rapidly.
I am looking forward to more learning as we proceed. There is one more social event tonight. Will have to attend that. I am afraid whether I can maintain the frequency of my posts on my blog. I will try to..
Friday, August 17, 2007
Orientation.. Case competition..
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4 Comments:
Hi,
your blog has been a intresting read and a great reference point for my own quest towards the american MBA. Though many factors seem very encouraging to actually pursue this option but the only stumbling block and that to a big one is the H1B visa issue.
Probably you would guess where this mail is heading towards ... :-)
A great deal has been written about this issue. The intention of this mail is not to question about your choice for pursueing your MBA ... but simply a opinion from your end as to how u plan to tackle this problem in days to come ahead.
Regards
Hey Bud, Good blog man. Keep the posts coming. We had our graduation party yesterday. I am done with my MBA. :) It feels great. I will try and follow your blog.. :)
@HI Anonymous..Definitely H1-B is an issue. It exists all over the U.S.
But, one thing is certain. If the company believes that u r a great resource..then they will do whatever to retain u. For example..Here they sent a girl to South America because of the visa issue and got her back in the next quota. So u should be up to the mark.
@Sudhir.. Congrats on graduation..I will try to maintain the blog..
Good Blog.. Have added you to mine
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