Tag: Europe
IBD Executive Director David Richardson resumes travel overseas
February 28, 2022
After a long hiatus, IBD Executive Director David Richardson traveled briefly to Finland and Germany in November to meet with potential project clients and friends of the IBD program. David’s long overdue overseas trip was an opportunity to talk…

IBD Project Client Interview: Auli Parviainen, Maston Oy
August 31, 2020
This past spring semester, five Berkeley Haas MBA candidates (Cassandra Salcedo, David Brown-Dawson, Jennifer Lopez Ramirez, Fletch Vynne, and Saurav Ray) undertook an IBD consulting project with the Finnish company Maston Oy. Founded in 1968,…

Team Confidex
September 26, 2019
Written by: Adriana Bonifaz / Armand Amin / Haley Braun / Stephanie Rank / Katie Rentz From the moment you step off the airplane onto the tarmac, clouds of breeze-borne cottonwood fluff give Finland in May a dreamlike aura. Whether standing on the…

Giosg
September 05, 2019
Written by: Kyle Rolnick, Maddy Han, Joyce Yao, Annie Powers and Miguel Moreno Rodriguez Discovering a unique culture As the Berkeley IBD team walked into Giosg’s office in a quiet, corporate area of Helsinki, we realized that the nice shoes we…

IBD Team YGA Travels to Istanbul to Work with Young Guru Academy (YGA) for a Second Year
May 25, 2018
Written by Team YGA: Joanne Lee, Clara Jiang, Enrique San Martin Petit and Daniel Mombiedro After a successful inaugural engagement between Young Guru Academy (YGA) and IBD in 2017, the two partnered again this year to send a team of four MBA…

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…

IBD Team Travels to Stockholm to Help Civil Rights Defenders to Implement a New Innovation Program
August 25, 2017
Written by Carol Macavilca Paredes, Elizabeth Miller, Ingrid Monroy, Beth Williams and Blakey Larsen Our IBD Project took us to Stockholm to help our client, Civil Right Defenders (CRD), a nonprofit organization devoted to human rights founded in…

Updates from IBD Turkey – Touring Turkey with YGA and The Turkish Delights
June 25, 2017
Written by Amol Borcar, Annie Porter, Chelsea Harris, Jeanne Godleski, and Mariana Martinez The room was buzzing with three languages, and communication was a game of telephone. One of the Syrian primary students would excitedly share something in…

Updates from the IBD – Team Tekes in Finland
June 09, 2017
Berkeley-Haas Full Time students Lauren Elstein, Javier Gunther, Natalie Osterweil, Mitch Plueger, and Matt Shelton are working on an IBD project with Tekes in Finland. Who are the Finns? Considering how familiar we generally are with European…

All Around the World; IBD Teams In-Country
May 25, 2017
Written by: Danner Doud-Martin, Assistant Director, Operations for the IBD Program When I introduced myself to the Full-Time MBAs on their first day of class for the Spring IBD program, I told them I wanted to either be the sixth member of their…
