Posts by International Business Development Program
Ilumexico
Written by: Nick Matcheck, Danielle Mayorga, Amit Shintre, Stacey King and Arpana Dhir Iluméxico is a social enterprise that specializes in solar home systems for rural Mexicans living outside the electrical grid. The systems are small in scale. The typical unit is a 325-Watt panel able to power se…
Uganda Come to Africa!
Team Makerere is comprised of five Masters in Business Administration (MBA) students from the University of California, Berkeley, USA: April Zhu, Samuel O’Reilly, Juliana Pugliese, Pat Hyde and Nina Ho (who served as the Team Lead). Team Makerere descends on Zimbabwe and Botswana! From the moment …
Team RD – Florianopolis Brazil
Written by the IBD Team RD, Perrie Briskin, Jamil Bashir, Emily Brechlin, Yenkai Huang, and Michael Kochevar “Oh, that’s why he wasn’t talking to me,” the Brazilian man exclaimed loudly with laughter. “I thought he was a mute!” This was the statement of a friendly Brazilian man when he e…
Building Bridges: The Story of How Two Asians, Two South Americans, and a North Carolinian Found Each Other in Germany
Written by Team SAP Ariba: Jennifer Nixon, Antonio Ciudad Casafranca, Ka Wing Lo, Rodrigo Morelli and Boyu Zhang More than just data integration… SAP’s CEOs’ words marked us from the beginning when we got to SAP headquarters in Walldorf, Germany. SAP’s core business is more than ju…
IBD Travels to the LEPE Conference Hosted by NYU Stern School of Business
Written by Danner Doud-Martin, IBD Associate Director I had the privilege for the third consecutive year of representing Berkeley Haas at the Leaders of Experiential Project-Based Education (LEPE) Conference in June 2019. LEPE brings together higher education faculty and administrative staff who w…
IBD Team We Care Solar in Uganda, July 2019
Written by Ana Quirino Simões “Not only lights, it provides warmth…” – midwife in Kyannamukaaka, Uganda Roughly seven weeks ago, our team was introduced to We Care Solar, a non-profit based in Berkeley that aims to reduce maternal mortality rates in the developing world by providing t…
Greetings from Middle Caye in Glover’s Reef Atoll!
Written by IBD Team WCS, Banu Nagasundaram, Lindsay Zhang, Mark Parker, Maureen Klarich, and Pathak Pankaj We are Team WCS. Our project this summer is to work in partnership with the Belize organization of the Wildlife Conservation Society to recommend effective management practices for Glover�…
The Stories Behind the Bottles
By IBD Team Samai Samai is Cambodia’s first premium rum distillery founded by Daniel Pacheco and Antonio Lopez de Haro in 2014. Samai’s mission is to lead in the craft of distilling premium Cambodian spirits that combines high-quality, locally grown ingredients, innovation, and passion. Our team…
Team Sega Sammy: Tokyo 2019 #samuraibd
Written by Sega Sammy Team Member, Mina Matsumoto, ’20 MBA Candidate When people think of Sega Sammy, most picture Sonic the Hedgehog. However, Sega Sammy Holdings is more than a cartoon- it’s a multi-billion dollar conglomerate that merged Japan’s biggest pachinko manufacturer with one …
Berkeley Haas Travels to Nepal for Eye Care Nonprofit
Written by IBD Team Seva; Alix Slosberg, Elinor Chang, Lauren Greenwood, Ryan Overcash and Ryan Adams Five current Berkeley Haas MBA students partnered with Seva, a global nonprofit, to support its mission to preserve and restore sight for communities around the world for the 2019 International Busi…