Yearly Archives: 2017
IBD Hong Kong Blog
July 06, 2017
Written by Andy Kang, Donald Bullock, Brian Burke, Tulio Da Silveira, and Juan Norero Day Zero After a 15-hour flight, we’ve finally landed in Hong Kong! Despite being jetlagged, we’re pretty excited about the prospect of living in Asia and…
Leaving on a Jet Plane: Four Summer IBD Teams Depart for IBD In-Country Experiences
June 29, 2017
The IBD Evening Weekend MBA (EWMBA) Teams are on their way to their in-country destinations where they will spend the next two weeks working with their IBD clients before presenting their final recommendations on July 14th. Despite only having a…
Team IBD Japan Takes on a Timely Issue: Media and the US Market
June 29, 2017
Written by Federico Alvarez Del Blanco, Diego Butrich, Kim Long, Angela Napit, and Kasey Koopmans The US media is having a moment. According to Donald Trump’s twitter account, “the media is the enemy of the American people.” Counter to his…
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…
Dari Kita, Untuk Kita – From Us, For Us
June 16, 2017
Written by: Mackenzie Cooke, Anne Kimberley, Tyler Owens, Karin Schmidt and Nony Onyeador A poem by esteemed poet, Annie Kimberley: In the dark of night, we wake and depart, For beating a long commute, we need this jump start; The worst traffic…
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…
IBD Team’s Unique Opportunity to work with Crane and Material Handling Equipment Manufacturing Company, ElectroMech
June 02, 2017
Written by: Jose Vitor Ribeiro Dos Santos, Johnny Gutierrez, Jason Palacios, Hejar Oncel, and Jeff Neblett Background India is the world’s second most populous nation and arguably the world’s most exciting business environment. Despite all of…
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…
Evening Weekend IBD Program Kicks Off
May 25, 2017
While the Full-Time MBA (FTMBA) program is at the end of their engagement with IBD, 18 Evening and Weekend MBA (EWMBA) students kicked off their IBD experience on May 14th. This is the 6th year that the course has been offered to EWMBA students…
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…
