It has been one month since the Case Challenge ended, but I still remember it clearly as it just happened yesterday! The two days I spent in Beijing were wonderful. I worked with great people and experienced great things.

 

It's my first time to take part in a competition like this. I was honored to represent ZJU with my classmates as Zhe Da Team 2. We did come across difficulties during the 'Compete' phase. Not only the limit of budget in the case, but also the language we use in the competition - none of us are native English speakers, and we are taught in Chinese at school. So it really took us much time to translate some theoretical terms we used in ppt from Chinese into English. I don't think it's a easy job. But anyway we learned something new after we did that.

 

Hard work with a little luck can lead to something beyond your expectation! Our presentation was selected as the top 3 of school teams in China. It's a good reward to us though it's not that juicy. However, we know we can still improve our presentation a lot to make it better. That's the most important thing to us, I think. You know, people can not make progress if they do not know where to improve.

 

Then I faced the 'Collaborate' phase. I was lucky to be assigned to Team Red. Not because we won the finals, but because all my teammates are awesome people! They have talents and passion. It seemed 8 people per team did not always lead to conflict and low-efficiency. We were divided into smaller groups and each group was assigned a part of the task. I though it really worked and came out a great job. Maybe next time, you, Mr CRO, should assign more people into one team in order to generate some conflicts.

 

You hoped the event could be a pivotal moment in our life. I would like to say 'yes'. The experience I gained from the event will be helpful in my life. It's a great chance to meet people from all over the world and build relationships with them through such a fascinating event. People from different countries have their unique culture background. Taking with them always give you some new flash ideas and expand your vision. I enjoy doing it. Besides, I  wanted to see the disparity between my school and these top class business schools in the world. It was my purpose to attend the program, and I was so glad I had learned something from my competitors.

 

I would like to thank Microsoft and CKGSB for bringing us such a wonderful program! I really enjoyed the competition and the one night at Grand Hyatt!

Zhiwei Xu
Zhiwei Xu, a first year MBA student, received his bachelor degree from Zhejiang University in Management & Economics of Agriculture. He had been working in a government department for three years as an assistant of human resource management. He is familiar with recruitment, employee training and salary design. Now he is pursuing his master degree at Zhejiang University in order to perfect his knowledge structure. He plans to pursue a career in a management consulting firm in the future.