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Haas Alumnus, Food Entrepreneur Alejandro Velez, BS 09, to Compete on The Bachelorette
May 07, 2012
Alejandro Velez, BS 09, co-founder of Back to the Roots, a company that sells kits to grow gourmet mushrooms from coffee grounds, will show off his romantic side in the upcoming season of The Bachelorette, which premieres Monday, May 14. Velez will…
MBAs Suit Up to Taste Scotch, Raise Funds
May 02, 2012
More than 200 Berkeley MBA students–from the Berkeley-Columbia, Evening & Weekend, and Full-time MBA Programs toured Scotland without leaving Haas. One Sunday evening in March, they turned out for the newly-revived Haas tradition of…
French Fries and Free Thought in Cambodia
June 04, 2011
Fried tarantula! So tasty… “And may I have a side of french fries?” A simple request for a typical restaurant, but my teammate Josh asked it with a certain hesitance. We had been in Cambodia for two weeks and had begun to understand…
A day in the life
June 04, 2011
It is our last day in Dakar! We just made our final presentation to our client and it’s time to send in my obligatory blog. Lest you think IBD was a nonstop adventure, I wanted to offer a 24 hour glimpse of our experience in Dakar. By our last…
A Day in the Life of a Resident: On the front-lines of family medicine in Ecuador
June 03, 2011
As an MBA/MPH student at Haas, I’ve spent quite a bit of time in hospitals and other medical settings both in the US and developing countries. Our first week in Quito, for example, was a dream for anyone interested in business and healthcare –…
Ghanaian Adventures (part 4 of the travails of harmless brown man)
June 03, 2011
I’m not somebody who’s very easily given to too much thinking. There are these times though, when the cynical engineer in me gives way to an idealist. A dreamer. And folks, let me tell you this: the dreamer is not a man to be trifled with. The…
Ghana
June 03, 2011
So. That’s it then. IBD done and dusted. In the bag. So what was it all about? A “management consulting program offered through the Haas School of Business”? A Karaoke beach holiday with your mates ? A backpacking cultural…
Salsa and North Korea (but this is about Mexico)
June 03, 2011
My teammates Joe, Masha and Jenny have already shared about the healthcare startup we are working with here in Mexico. Just gave our final presentation to the client last night and it went great! Pumped out 50 pages, strategy deck and investment…
Zacatecas, Mexico
June 03, 2011
Every time our team sees dark rainclouds or a running fountain, the same thought runs through our minds—we hope Saucito gets some of that water. Last week our team went traveled to Saucito, a small town about an hour away from Zacatecas. After…
Ghetto? Ger!
June 03, 2011
This is our last day in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. I clearly remember our first day when we got here. We were flying from Beijing across the Gobi Desert. Outside was completely dark. When a few lights came in sight, the plane suddenly went down and we…