IBD Blog
Updates from IBD: Welcome to Seoul!
May 16, 2012
Greetings from one of the most vibrant cities in Asia. For the next three weeks myself, Raj, Kevin and Jens will be busy exploring all that Korea has to offer as we embrace culture, cuisine and corporate life while woking for SK telecom,…
Updates from IBD: “Na nga def” from Senegal
May 14, 2012
We were beaming with excitement when we got to SFO for our departing flight. Bags in hand, we made our way through security (with a few minor hang-ups—one teammate’s bags were overweight!) and settled in at bar by our gate. After boarding…
Watch this Space for IBD 2012!
May 14, 2012
[slideshow] Teams of first-year (soon-to-be-second-year) full-time MBA students have hit the ground in Bulgaria, Costa Rica, Finland, Mongolia, and more for International Business Development Projects. This year they will work in consumer…
Updates from IBD: Jambo from Kenya!
May 13, 2012
Friday night our IBD team made it to Nairobi after a long journey via Amsterdam. We decided to arrive a couple of days early so we could have the weekend in Nairobi before heading to Kisumu on Sunday. Kisumu is a town in Western Kenya on Lake…
Haas Alumnus, Food Entrepreneur Alejandro Velez, BS 09, to Compete on The Bachelorette
May 07, 2012
Alejandro Velez, BS 09, co-founder of Back to the Roots, a company that sells kits to grow gourmet mushrooms from coffee grounds, will show off his romantic side in the upcoming season of The Bachelorette, which premieres Monday, May 14. Velez will…
MBAs Suit Up to Taste Scotch, Raise Funds
May 02, 2012
More than 200 Berkeley MBA students–from the Berkeley-Columbia, Evening & Weekend, and Full-time MBA Programs toured Scotland without leaving Haas. One Sunday evening in March, they turned out for the newly-revived Haas tradition of…
French Fries and Free Thought in Cambodia
June 04, 2011
Fried tarantula! So tasty… “And may I have a side of french fries?” A simple request for a typical restaurant, but my teammate Josh asked it with a certain hesitance. We had been in Cambodia for two weeks and had begun to understand…
A day in the life
June 04, 2011
It is our last day in Dakar! We just made our final presentation to our client and it’s time to send in my obligatory blog. Lest you think IBD was a nonstop adventure, I wanted to offer a 24 hour glimpse of our experience in Dakar. By our last…
A Day in the Life of a Resident: On the front-lines of family medicine in Ecuador
June 03, 2011
As an MBA/MPH student at Haas, I’ve spent quite a bit of time in hospitals and other medical settings both in the US and developing countries. Our first week in Quito, for example, was a dream for anyone interested in business and healthcare –…
Ghanaian Adventures (part 4 of the travails of harmless brown man)
June 03, 2011
I’m not somebody who’s very easily given to too much thinking. There are these times though, when the cynical engineer in me gives way to an idealist. A dreamer. And folks, let me tell you this: the dreamer is not a man to be trifled with. The…