IBD Blog
The Annual IBD Conference Awards
September 30, 2018
This is the sixth year that the IBD staff awarded IBD teams with the best photos and blogs. The competition is always fierce as so many amazing moments are captured by our IBD students around the world. Here are the 2018 winners. Best IBD 2018…
A Day in the Life of an RDoer- Team Resultados Digitais
September 27, 2018
From Emily Atwood, Thomas de Lyon, Connie Leung, Zack Looman, and Billy Phillips, working with Resultados Digitais – Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil. For our IBD project we traveled to Florianópolis, an island in the Brazilian state of…
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”…
Seva Team Blog – 2018 IBD
September 10, 2018
Written by Jocelyn Brown, Rachel Lee, Grant Hannigan, Josue Chavarin, and Gagan Dhaliwal May 21, 2018 It’s 110 degrees outside. Every bump of the road jostles us back and forth as we sit on stretchers in the back of the hospital ambulance. Weaving…
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…
