Tag: Newsletter
“Big Reveal” Day for the Spring 2019 IBD Student Team Leads
February 01, 2019
Every year the IBD Faculty Director and staff spend hours looking over student Team Lead resumes and interview notes, as well as client project applications, with the goal of matching 16 student Team Leads to the right IBD projects and clients.…
Jon Metzler Joins the IBD Faculty Mentor Team
November 29, 2018
IBD is excited to welcome our newest Faculty Mentor to the Spring IBD program, Jon Metzler. Jon is a Lecturer at Berkeley Haas, where he teaches competitive advantage in technology, telecom and media markets (Strategy for the IT Firm), and…
It’s Time to Celebrate IBD!
September 30, 2018
When Frank Schultz, IBD Faculty Director, took the stage on September 14th at the 2018 IBD Conference, he shared that he has two favorite days in the IBD yearly program cycle: the day that IBD projects are revealed, and the day of the annual IBD…
A Week in the Life of an IBD Team – Team Ananda
September 20, 2018
Written by Igor Borges, Stan Cataldo, Ryan Dingler, Elaine Leong, and Mila Pires, of the Ananda Development team in Thailand. It was May 13th at 6pm and our team had just arrived in Suvarnabhumi, Bangkok’s main airport. Ryan (one of our team…
Ford Shanghai – 2018 IBD
September 13, 2018
Members: James Westhafer (team lead), Sandra Tamer, Alyssa Warren, John Sheffield, Joe Akoni The Ford-Shanghai team was tasked with a very unique problem in their IBD project: How can Ford improve their customer experience in the “pre-drive”…
Continued Reflections on Our Plastic Use
August 30, 2018
*POST 2: Written by Catherine Soler, Leslie Brian, Kelly Lamble, Scott Peacock and Sipian Wang This is a second post about our project in the Bay Islands. After spending three weeks answering the question, ““How might we provide clean drinking…
How Three Weeks in the Bay Islands Changed our Perspective on Plastic
August 29, 2018
POST 1: Written by Catherine Soler, Leslie Brian, Kelly Lamble, Scott Peacock and Sipian Wang How three weeks in the Bay Islands changed our perspective on plastic Prior to this consulting project, none of our team members had even heard of the Bay…
Maximum Satisfaction: The IBD Max Warehouse Experience
August 23, 2018
Written by Natalie Bauman, Vicky Ngo-Lam, Jeremy Scheier, Elana Congress, and Alex Austin May 31, 2018 “Before you come, there are two very important words which you must know: guacamole y frijoles,” asserts Juan Carlos on our first weekly team…
Greetings from Antigua, Guatemala and the HF Healthcare team!
August 17, 2018
Written by Michael Sahm, Amy Fan, Rachel Green, Joanna Lyons, and Carlos Sanchez May 31st, 2018 Project Overview Our client is Nasir Hospital, a private, nonprofit hospital in Sacatepéquez, Guatemala (opening October 2018)…
IBD Team Belize aka Team Unbelizable – Week 2
August 10, 2018
Written by Hima Erukulla, Andrew Lee, Jerry Philip, Srinivas Rajamani and Nik Reddy Week 2 It had been nearly 2 months, 4 grueling Saturdays, 1 week in-country experience since the “Big Reveal” of our IBD project in May, but the energy and…