Posts by Haas School of Business
A day in the life
It is our last day in Dakar! We just made our final presentation to our client and it’s time to send in my obligatory blog. Lest you think IBD was a nonstop adventure, I wanted to offer a 24 hour glimpse of our experience in Dakar. By our last week […]
A Day in the Life of a Resident: On the front-lines of family medicine in Ecuador
As an MBA/MPH student at Haas, I’ve spent quite a bit of time in hospitals and other medical settings both in the US and developing countries. Our first week in Quito, for example, was a dream for anyone interested in business and healthcare – we visited with local and national […]
Ghanaian Adventures (part 4 of the travails of harmless brown man)
I’m not somebody who’s very easily given to too much thinking. There are these times though, when the cynical engineer in me gives way to an idealist. A dreamer. And folks, let me tell you this: the dreamer is not a man to be trifled with. The dreamer believes all […]
Ghana
So. That’s it then. IBD done and dusted. In the bag. So what was it all about? A “management consulting program offered through the Haas School of Business”? A Karaoke beach holiday with your mates ? A backpacking cultural eye-opener? An endless list of questionably mandatory deliv…
Salsa and North Korea (but this is about Mexico)
My teammates Joe, Masha and Jenny have already shared about the healthcare startup we are working with here in Mexico. Just gave our final presentation to the client last night and it went great! Pumped out 50 pages, strategy deck and investment opinions on 9 healthcare areas… whew Pumping out [&h…
Zacatecas, Mexico
Every time our team sees dark rainclouds or a running fountain, the same thought runs through our minds—we hope Saucito gets some of that water. Last week our team went traveled to Saucito, a small town about an hour away from Zacatecas. After traveling in and around Zacatecas for the […]
Ghetto? Ger!
This is our last day in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. I clearly remember our first day when we got here. We were flying from Beijing across the Gobi Desert. Outside was completely dark. When a few lights came in sight, the plane suddenly went down and we arrived at the Chinggis Khaan […]
Madagascar
It is our final day here in Madagascar, and I am sitting at the desk in my hotel room staring out over the rooftops of Antananarivo. I remember first hearing that my team was going to Madagascar and being excited with disbelief. The name, for me, always carried the sense […]
Abayas and MBAs
Our last day at Dar Al-Hekma College was very exciting. First, we had the opportunity to present our work and our recommendations about the Women’s Center of Excellence to the Dean and Vice Deans. Then, after an enjoyable lunch with some amazing ladies from the College, we conducted our MBA [&hell…
How to almost NOT be allowed entry into South Africa
Having worked for over 5 months back in Berkeley, we were all super excited to head to South Africa, a place which none of us had previously visited. The entire journey to JoBurg was fairly good, except for the Delta flight from Minneapolis to Amsterdam. (try and fly another airline, […]