Team KRZR

I finally managed to track down the KRZR team on the 9th floor. Joe was appropriately contrite about standing me up for our earlier interview session and I made him promise to name his first-born after me so we're all good. He was very excited to be part of the competition (and who wouldn't be!) and commented that "this makes me feel like a normal adult!". The idea of getting together with peers to solve a real-life business case with real-life constraints and considerations really appeals. Sometimes in the BU MBA life (as I'm sure in most other programs too) one does get quite caught up in cases and homework and papers that we forget what its like to be part of a contributing workforce - I definitely can appreciate that point of view! The fact that there is prize money associated with this makes it all the more exciting.

The team did some prep work before the competition by getting together every other week or so to do some research on the telecom industry. According to Joe, the one thing that is so amazing about the world we live in today is that information is so easily available and accessible and the rate at which information travels is mind-boggling. We talked about life before Google and online libraries and how writing papers and doing research was limited by the size and quality of physical libraries when we were in undergrad. Joe is very cognizant about the challenges of making information relevant in today's world and I think this case competition is the perfect arena for him and his team to showcase their ideas on this.