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Shrimping in Cambodia
June 02, 2011
Our IBD project was to develop a business plan for a shrimp farm in Cambodia for the DK Kim Foundation. We arrived in Siem Reap from SFO and were able to see Angkor Wat, Bayon, and the various temples there. We then made the long trip down National…
Packaging The Wild: Kruger National Park
June 02, 2011
Flee at dawn from the sprawling metropolis that spreads from glass skyscrapers in Pretoria to millions of ramshackle tin shacks in Soweto.Drive east into the sunrise, past the tree-lined Joburg suburbs with high adobe walls and electric fences that…
Cape Town Baby
June 02, 2011
After an eventful arrival in Joburg that Archit will blog about, we spent two days getting settled in the office and working on interviews.That, however, is not the subject of this blog, rather it is the fortuitous position that we fell into.…
Hello from Johannesburg!
June 02, 2011
What an introduction to Africa! We are three days into our Seminar in International Business trip to South Africa, and already, starting in Jo’burg, we have met with McKinsey’s managing director for Sub-Saharan Africa, senior executives…
Salamun Alaikum from Saudi Arabia!
June 01, 2011
For our IBD project, we have worked with Dar Al Hekma (DAH), one of the leading private colleges for women in Jeddah. Three main pillars of our project is to prepare and deliver a 4-day workshop on business concepts (which was titled as “Essential…
Observations from Bangalore
June 01, 2011
After 2.5 weeks in India, I’m slowly starting to get used to life here. Just like the developing countries I have worked in before, it always takes some time to get used to the differences in expectations and attitudes. Take, for example, getting…
I Can See Your Tactics (from Madurai, India)
June 01, 2011
Our project is supposed to be about strategy, but after working with our client over the past few weeks, it’s clear that what drives their success is as much about tactics as anything else. Aravind Eye Care System is a network of five main…
Africa Day: What a Day
June 01, 2011
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…
The Mountain Gorillas of Rwanda
June 01, 2011
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…
Feeling Comfortable in Mysore
May 29, 2011
My first 2 weeks of IBD are complete and I am beginning to feel comfortable in my surroundings. Like breaking in a new pair of running shoes – at first it feels awkward and every time you hit the ground you are acutely aware of the shoe rubbing on…