Posts by International Business Development Program
IBD Hong Kong Blog
Written by Andy Kang, Donald Bullock, Brian Burke, Tulio Da Silveira, and Juan Norero Day Zero After a 15-hour flight, we’ve finally landed in Hong Kong! Despite being jetlagged, we’re pretty excited about the prospect of living in Asia and working with our client G-Hub, a tech startup. To cele…
Leaving on a Jet Plane: Four Summer IBD Teams Depart for IBD In-Country Experiences
The IBD Evening Weekend MBA (EWMBA) Teams are on their way to their in-country destinations where they will spend the next two weeks working with their IBD clients before presenting their final recommendations on July 14th. Despite only having a short 6 weeks to prepare, IBD teams are ready to [&h…
Team IBD Japan Takes on a Timely Issue: Media and the US Market
Written by Federico Alvarez Del Blanco, Diego Butrich, Kim Long, Angela Napit, and Kasey Koopmans The US media is having a moment. According to Donald Trump’s twitter account, “the media is the enemy of the American people.” Counter to his bold-faced claim, a recent AEI report found that the …
Updates from IBD Turkey – Touring Turkey with YGA and The Turkish Delights
Written by Amol Borcar, Annie Porter, Chelsea Harris, Jeanne Godleski, and Mariana Martinez The room was buzzing with three languages, and communication was a game of telephone. One of the Syrian primary students would excitedly share something in Arabic, at which point it was translated into Turkis…
Dari Kita, Untuk Kita – From Us, For Us
Written by: Mackenzie Cooke, Anne Kimberley, Tyler Owens, Karin Schmidt and Nony Onyeador A poem by esteemed poet, Annie Kimberley: In the dark of night, we wake and depart, For beating a long commute, we need this jump start; The worst traffic in the world by far, Hard to fathom the hours spent …
Updates from the IBD – Team Tekes in Finland
Berkeley-Haas Full Time students Lauren Elstein, Javier Gunther, Natalie Osterweil, Mitch Plueger, and Matt Shelton are working on an IBD project with Tekes in Finland. Who are the Finns? Considering how familiar we generally are with European countries, upon our arrival we quickly realized that we …
IBD Team’s Unique Opportunity to work with Crane and Material Handling Equipment Manufacturing Company, ElectroMech
Written by: Jose Vitor Ribeiro Dos Santos, Johnny Gutierrez, Jason Palacios, Hejar Oncel, and Jeff Neblett Background India is the world’s second most populous nation and arguably the world’s most exciting business environment. Despite all of us traveling extensively, no one on our IBD team h…
All Around the World; IBD Teams In-Country
Written by: Danner Doud-Martin, Assistant Director, Operations for the IBD Program When I introduced myself to the Full-Time MBAs on their first day of class for the Spring IBD program, I told them I wanted to either be the sixth member of their team or be stowed in their suitcases. There [&hel…
Evening Weekend IBD Program Kicks Off
While the Full-Time MBA (FTMBA) program is at the end of their engagement with IBD, 18 Evening and Weekend MBA (EWMBA) students kicked off their IBD experience on May 14th. This is the 6th year that the course has been offered to EWMBA students and although the program is very […]
Tackling the Youth Skills Gap in Uganda: An Update from Makerere University
Written By: Team Makerere, Hans Klinger, Elizabeth Foster, Matthew Hamilton, Jeannie Valkevich, and Carolyn Chuong We arrived in Uganda around midnight, which meant we needed to wait an extra day to see the bright blue sky, rich red clay, and lush green foliage of East Africa. However, what we …