Tag: Africa
Tackling the Youth Skills Gap in Uganda: An Update from Makerere University
May 24, 2017
Written By: Team Makerere, Hans Klinger, Elizabeth Foster, Matthew Hamilton, Jeannie Valkevich, and Carolyn Chuong We arrived in Uganda around midnight, which meant we needed to wait an extra day to see the bright blue sky, rich red clay, and…
IBD Teams United – The 2017 Full Time MBA IBD Program “Big Reveal”
March 30, 2017
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…
2017 Full-Time IBD Clients
March 29, 2017
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…
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 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…
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…
Updates from IBD: “Na nga def” from Senegal
May 14, 2012
We were beaming with excitement when we got to SFO for our departing flight. Bags in hand, we made our way through security (with a few minor hang-ups—one teammate’s bags were overweight!) and settled in at bar by our gate. After boarding…
Updates from IBD: Jambo from Kenya!
May 13, 2012
Friday night our IBD team made it to Nairobi after a long journey via Amsterdam. We decided to arrive a couple of days early so we could have the weekend in Nairobi before heading to Kisumu on Sunday. Kisumu is a town in Western Kenya on Lake…
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.…
