Starwars from an MBA student’s perspective

I really miss those blissful younger days when we used to take sci-fi movies at face value and thoroughly enjoy watching them without going into the nitty-gritties of story-line or logic. As we grow older our mind starts reasoning more than enjoying such movies. And once you do an MBA, you start looking at movies with a management student’s perspective. They appear like case-studies and you end up questioning thousands of things.

I had a similar experience during recent viewing of the latest Star Wars movie, Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Even though I was enjoying the movie, subconsciously my mind started evaluating it based on various subjects that I’ve studied in my course.

Here are few subject-wise questions that popped-up in my mind during the movie.

Seriously, who finances these guys? Who invests in them? Equity or Debt? Especially when they always loose and end up having their assets destroyed. Do they write-off Death Star, Star Destroyer, TIE fighter, etc as sunk cost?

Even after 40 years they haven’t learnt their lesson… Poor strategy decision by the Dark Side.

They should disintegrate even before they move their light-sabers.

Every time… Everrrry time! 

They are cute and their robotic beeps are adorable… but speaking human language would have really helped. 

All we need now is a USB port in Lightsabers and voila… unlimited source of power!

All the time wasted in running around planets in search of either a lost droid or a person… Just give them a call and talk.

After watching movies like Gravity, Martian and Interstellar, which were true to space physics… You really start wondering about these little things.

They always have the plan, but never capitalize on it. Why? Does the dark side have some patented technology or is there any barriers to entry?

After watching Star Wars, you are never going to look at luminescent lights in the same way ever again.