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Presenting the IBD 2017 Spring MBA Team Leads!
January 26, 2017
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…
Updates from IBD: Half way through!
May 22, 2012
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…
Updates form IBD: The Future is Here
May 22, 2012
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…
Updates from IBD: So….a Spaniard, a Chinese guy, and two Americans walk into a paper mill
May 22, 2012
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…
Updates from IBD: South Africa – Lessons Learned, Part I
May 22, 2012
Hello from Johannesburg where Steph, Togay, Alex and I have been for the past week working with ChemCity, an enterprise developer/new business accelerator based here. So far it’s been an amazing experience, despite the cold that I picked up on my…
IBD Updates: South Africa- Traveling with an entourage for P.E.A.C.E.
May 21, 2012
When our team landed in Johannesburg with an itinerary that included checking in and out of accommodation 10 times in 3 weeks we knew that a unique experience awaited us. This was reaffirmed on Monday morning when we met our entourage for the…
IBD Updates: Saudi Arabia
May 21, 2012
Follow this IBD team here or at http://sleeplessinsaudiarabia.wordpress.com. May 19, 1001 Feast Plus a video on how to make the Saudi rice dish saleeg. May 18, Red Sea Arrest? Let us start you at the end of day 7. We were returning from a motor boat…
Updates from IBD: Beijing
May 20, 2012
It is frequent to hear nowadays stories about China’s astonishing economic growth and the implications this is having in the rest of the world. As the four members of Team Cummins, we are getting a first-hand view of the Asian giant’s situation…
Hola, amigos!
May 20, 2012
Hola desde Mexico, amigos! Team salaUno2 is off to a dynamic, whirlwind start here in the Roma Norte district of Mexico City. Our client, salaUno, is fantastic, and they have us working on a critical project related to company culture and HR. We are…
Updates from IBD: Senegal
May 18, 2012
3 days. 48 interviews. 600 Post Its. [Before] Our living room walls are a sight that would make our PFPS professors (and 3M) proud. Our first week is almost over and we have already accomplished a lot. After three consecutive days of…