Tag: Africa
From Berkeley to Nairobi: Getting SaaS-y with a United States Market Entry
July 15, 2025
Project Country: Kenya / IBD Client: Seamless HR Written by: Aitana Felgueroso, Diego Morales, Julia Concetta Conte, Goutham Murthy, and Salahuddin Mohammad Sharib MBA students routinely assess risk when entering school: the risk of leaving…
Reflections from Ghana
July 26, 2023
Written by: Jayson Wang, Patrick Drown, Ryan Armanda, and Sarah Vlazny The road to Ashesi The car ride from Accra, Ghana’s capital, to Ashesi University starts out paved, but the final twenty minutes of the ride is a bumpy, slow dirt road. Ditches…
Embracing Senegal: Stop Guessing Africa
July 20, 2023
Written by: Kristina Martinez, Nick Chen, Sam Magnuson, Tianyin Shi Embarking on an Unforgettable Journey An indelible mark was left on our minds when we were informed during our initial IBD class that we had been paired with Lengo, an AI-driven…
Kicking off the Berkeley Haas spring semester 2023 IBD program!
February 01, 2023
The Berkeley Haas spring semester 2023 IBD class kicked off on January 19th with a Chou Hall room packed full of 32 IBDers eager to discover their new project clients and locations. Individual IBD project details were announced in this year’s…
IBD partners with Ugandan start-up Takataka Plastics
February 26, 2021
Over the past 29 years of the IBD program, it has been rare for an IBD project client to be a co-founder of an international start-up and a UC Berkeley student at the same time. This year the Berkeley Haas IBD program is collaborating on an…
IBD Alumni Interview: Beth Foster (‘18 MBA and IBD alum) loves working in East Africa
November 01, 2019
Written by Danner Doud-Martin IBD caught up with ‘18 MBA Beth Foster who was visiting the bay area this August before returning to Kampala, Uganda, where she works as part of the investment arm of Engineers without Borders; Canada (EWB). Beth…
Team HaAshesi – Educating Ethical, Entrepreneurial Leaders in Africa
October 10, 2019
Written by: Joseph Bird, Carolyn Henderson, Nicole Quinty, Jessica Slocovich and Nicholas Meyer Our client, Ashesi University, was founded by Haas alumnus Patrick Awuah in 2002 with the grand mission of educating a new generation of ethical,…
Uganda Come to Africa!
August 22, 2019
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…
IBD Team We Care Solar in Uganda, July 2019
July 25, 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…
Berkeley Haas 2019 MBA Commencement, Patrick Awuah, MBA ’99
May 30, 2019
For the MBA class of 2019, Friday, May 24th, was an exciting day of celebration as Evening & Weekend and Full-Time MBAs crossed the stage at the Greek Theatre to accept their hard earned MBA diplomas. It was also a special day for the IBD…
