Every year, May 25th marks a very special day across the African continent: Africa Day. Africa Day is the annual commemoration on May 25 of the 1963 founding of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU). On this day, leaders of 30 of the 32 independent African states signed a founding […]

While our group has been working hard on our project for Nyungwe National Park in Rwanda, we felt it was necessary to visit Rwanda’s biggest tourist draw – the mountain gorillas in Volcanoes National Park. Not only are the mountain gorillas critically endangered, with an estimated 790 left in ex…

It has been 2 weeks since we arrived in Ulan Bator or Ulaanbaatar (“Red Hero”), the capital of Mongolia. I cannot believe how fast the time is flying by!!! In just one week we will be back to San Francisco… So far, the experience in Mongolia has been great and […]

It is hard to describe Georgia succinctly, because it varies in so many ways. The people range from jovial and wine-LOVING to somber when discussing Russian conflict, from peaceful to occasionally violent, and from pro-government to anti-government (see protest video in Rahul’s blog). The landscap…

School feeding in action Just a couple days after arriving in Ghana, our team of 12 (8 Berkeley + 4 Ghana Institute of Mgmt & Public Admin) were split into 4 groups to cover 8 regions over a week. Satoru and I along with our GIMPA student Beattie traveled to […]

Day 0 We arrive in Ulan Bator airport in Mongolia at 11:30PM. Poor Jason and Yonghan. Their luggage didn’t seem to want to come along. Probably somewhere in limbo… Jason’s spirits are low, but a company car comes to pick us up. We crash into our apartment for work the […]

For our IBD project, we are helping a Mexican healthcare startup with their expansion strategy. And when I say startup, I mean we are working out of the CEO’s apartment. The staff works around the dining table, and meetings take place on the terrace outside. (No wonder we heard all […]

When it come to sitting in class, entrepreneurs in Mexico are very much like Berkeley MBAs. They want their professors to skip the history and the lecturing and get to the point. They want actionable recommendations. They want less lecture, and more practical advice. In working with Prospera to deve…

Greetings from the hot and humid riverside city of Phnom Penh, Cambodia! Myself, Blake Holland, Jon Poei, and Patrick Schneider have been working with the D.K. Kim Foundation on a feasibility and implementation plan for a new technical school in the seaside resort town of Sihanoukville. We’ve been…