Posts by Haas School of Business
Ingredients for a Rockstar Haas IBD Team
What do you get when you put together a Korean, a Belgian, a Canadian and a Californian and then send them off to India to work for a few weeks? One Rockstar Haas IBD Team, a whirlwind of crazy moments, a few illnesses, new friendships and a LOT of curries, […]
Week 1 in the land of the Teranga
I honestly questioned the wisdom of putting me (a Ghanaian) in a team to Senegal. For about a minute. But after the first week, I’ve thanked my stars I lucked my way into Team ACI (or Team Aces, depending on who you ask). I’ve had the opportunity to practice a […]
Kiddos from Finland
Moi from Finland! We are Team Tekes and we’ve been lucky enough to work on a multi-country IBD project this year. After two weeks of in-country research in China (Shanghai and Beijing), we’re in Helsinki now to present our deliverables to our four Finnish clients seeking to enter the Chinese [&h…
Shrimping in Cambodia
Our IBD project was to develop a business plan for a shrimp farm in Cambodia for the DK Kim Foundation. We arrived in Siem Reap from SFO and were able to see Angkor Wat, Bayon, and the various temples there. We then made the long trip down National Highway 4 […]
Packaging The Wild: Kruger National Park
Flee at dawn from the sprawling metropolis that spreads from glass skyscrapers in Pretoria to millions of ramshackle tin shacks in Soweto.Drive east into the sunrise, past the tree-lined Joburg suburbs with high adobe walls and electric fences that keep modern living nice and compartmentalized for t…
Cape Town Baby
After an eventful arrival in Joburg that Archit will blog about, we spent two days getting settled in the office and working on interviews.That, however, is not the subject of this blog, rather it is the fortuitous position that we fell into. Because Wednesday, May 18th was a national holiday [&hell…
Hello from Johannesburg!
What an introduction to Africa! We are three days into our Seminar in International Business trip to South Africa, and already, starting in Jo’burg, we have met with McKinsey’s managing director for Sub-Saharan Africa, senior executives from one of the four largest South African banks, a…
Salamun Alaikum from Saudi Arabia!
For our IBD project, we have worked with Dar Al Hekma (DAH), one of the leading private colleges for women in Jeddah. Three main pillars of our project is to prepare and deliver a 4-day workshop on business concepts (which was titled as “Essential Business Skills for New Professionals”), deliver…
Observations from Bangalore
After 2.5 weeks in India, I’m slowly starting to get used to life here. Just like the developing countries I have worked in before, it always takes some time to get used to the differences in expectations and attitudes. Take, for example, getting from A to B in a city […]
I Can See Your Tactics (from Madurai, India)
Our project is supposed to be about strategy, but after working with our client over the past few weeks, it’s clear that what drives their success is as much about tactics as anything else. Aravind Eye Care System is a network of five main hospitals and various clinics spread throughout […]