Tag: Brazil
Reflections on our IBD Project in São Paulo, Brazil
July 14, 2025
Project Country: Brazil / IBD Client: Sabara Children’s Hospital Written By: John Eagen, Ritika Mittal, Elena Mnayarji, Masato Takeda, and Zainab Kumandan From May 17 to 31, 2025, our team had the incredible opportunity to spend two weeks…
Sunshine and Spreadsheets in Floripa!
July 08, 2024
Project Country: Brazil / IBD Client: Softplan Written by: Krittanat Ratanachai, Jash Padhiar, Sarah Intoccia & Shilpa Gopal Week 1: The Groundwork Begins If we had to describe our IBD trip to Florianópolis, a lush tropical island in…
IBD Conference celebrates student project successes
October 01, 2020
This year’s annual Berkeley Haas IBD Conference was held virtually on September 11th, and included spring semester FTMBA students, faculty, staff, and invited guests. As in previous years, the 2020 IBD Conference was an opportunity to review…
IBD Project Client Interview: Sandro Valeri, Director of Innovation Strategy at Embraer
January 30, 2020
Written by Danner Doud-Martin In the spring of 2019, the Berkeley Haas IBD program and a team of five of its MBA students worked with one of Brazil’s most well known companies, Embraer. The IBD project team consisted of Full Time MBA students…
Navigating Uncertainty in Brazil
October 03, 2019
By Soobia Haider, Katharine Hawthorne, Paula Moren, Arthur Tong, & Sam Smith It was 7am when we arrived at Congonhas airport in São Paulo. We were supposed to catch a flight to Rio de Janeiro to interview a venture capital firm about their…
A #HaasFlyBD Update from Team Embraer
September 12, 2019
Brian Bell, Swamit Mehta, Erlangga Renggana, Kylie Sale, and Quinn Sure are full-time Haas students working on an IBD project with Embraer, the third largest aerospace manufacturer, in São Paolo, Brazil. Fallin’ for Iguaçu – The World’s…
IBD Blog “Dois dias no Brasil”
June 15, 2019
By Varstation Team Member, Dakota Campbell, MBA Candidate 2020 As a relatively inexperienced international traveler, I did not know what to expect when signing up for IBD other than that I’d stretch myself personally. As I was assigned to team…
Using Human-Centered Design to Improve Patients’ Lives
July 18, 2018
By Melea Atkins, Kathryn Balestreri, Bree Jenkins, Ben Lauing, and Hannah Levinson There were bright pink and orange and blue post-its everywhere. It looked just like the Innovation Lab at Haas had looked weeks before as we ran through an exercise…
The Spring IBD Program is Off and Running….
March 01, 2018
A lot has happened this past month in the life of the 2018 Spring FTMBA IBD program. On February 1st, we held the first day of Spring IBD class, revealing the names of IBD clients, their projects and country destinations to an excited group of 16…
Berkeley Haas IBD 2017 – Aramis Menswear, Sao Paulo, Brazil
July 27, 2017
Written by Diane Chiang, Barun Mazumdar, Abhishek Mishra, Kalyan Pentapalli and Priya Vijayakumar Weekend before in-country: Foz de Iguaçu Five happy and excited Cal bears arrived at the Iguaçu airport on late Friday evening after spending almost…
