When I was first considering creating this blog, I believed that readers would benefit more if I could get some of my classmates to write some entries. In this way the reader could experience the program through the eyes of a more diverse group. The challenge, I thought, would be to convince my classmates of the value of this endeavor. I couldn’t have been more wrong.

After talking with my classmates, I found that many of them already have their own blogs and would be willing to write entries that could be reposted here. So over the next 16 months, I hope to introduce several member of the Class of 2009.

First up, Siva Sai Prassanna Chakka. Siva is from India. He studied computer science at the undergraduate and graduate levels in India. He worked for three years in hardware development before entering the MBA program here at Tennessee. His blog is located at:

http://randomseed0.blogspot.com/

Here is the link to a post Siva wrote after our first Demand Management class where we discussed whether and how Apple, Inc is a customer focused company.

http://randomseed0.blogspot.com/2008/08/apple-survival-story.html