Posts by International Business Development Program
Young Guru Academy (YGA) Partners with IBD for a Brighter Future
“IBD was the best experience I had at Haas.” One of the reasons we repeatedly hear this sentiment from our Berkeley-Haas alumni is because of the client/student project dynamic. The IBD experience goes beyond the classroom and intersects with real life. For 24 years IBD clients have looked…
Whitney Hischier, Member of the “A Team” IBD Faculty Mentors
IBD Faculty Mentor Whitney Hischier spent most of her career in change management and system implementation consulting, primarily on international assignments. She is a Berkeley-Haas MBA alumna, but not an IBD alumna. While an MBA candidate, Whitney was denied admission into the IBD program whil…
IBD Teams United – The 2017 Full Time MBA IBD Program “Big Reveal”
Finally, the wait is over! The Spring 2017 IBD program Team Leads, faculty, and staff don’t have to stay quiet any longer. The IBD “Big Reveal” event took place on March 2nd when each Team Lead welcomed their respective Team Members with a short two-minute video on their client, their [&hell…
2017 Full-Time IBD Clients
If you have been following our IBD newsletter over the last few months, you may have noticed that we have shared a lot of information about the IBD course, the processes we go through to select IBD Team Leads, and how we assign Team Members to projects. So far we […]
Frank Schultz, IBD Faculty Mentor and Instructor
The Haas “Student Always” principle resonates strongly with Faculty Mentor and Instructor, Frank Schultz. “Each time I teach it’s a learning opportunity for me” shares Frank. “I get to learn about new, exciting places, companies, technologies, and I get the opportunity to work with new…
2017 IBD Draft; Team Leads Select Their Four Team Members
A sea of resumes covered the IBD classroom tables on February 16th as Full-Time MBA Team Leads and their Faculty Mentors from four categories of IBD projects (Wild Card, Technology, Social Impact, and Retail and Consumer) met to identify and draft four additional Team Members for each IBD team. Th…
Presenting the IBD 2017 Spring MBA Team Leads!
For the second straight year, the IBD program has selected student Team Leads to spearhead work with their MBA peers on an international consulting project. In addition to providing leadership throughout the project, IBD Team Leads are responsible for fostering a cohesive and strong working tea…
Updates from IBD: Half way through!
Last Sunday we arrived in Kisumu (Western Kenya) for our project with SWAP, the Safe Water and Aids Program. The project is to do with evaluating a pilot that involves a free trial and rent-to-own scheme for water filters, with payment in installments using mobile money – a system called [……
Updates form IBD: The Future is Here
Working for a huge corporation is often associated with bureaucracy and stifled innovation. Resources are often directed away from R&D and innovation leading to lackluster products and services. SK Telecom is hoping to change all that. This week we had an opportunity to see first hand, the inno…
Updates from IBD: So….a Spaniard, a Chinese guy, and two Americans walk into a paper mill
Stop us if you’ve heard this one before…Amidst a two-ton “parent” paper towel roll (see photo below), the International Business Development (IBD) team from Berkeley-Haas donned the requisite steel toe shoe covers, hair nets, and ear plugs to transform ourselves not only int…