In Angola, like so many emerging markets around the globe, change is constant and the challenges to quality of life often seem insurmountable. The two most commonly used ...
Category: MBAs Without Borders
This summer, four MBAs packed their bags and headed off to Kenya, Ghana, Zambia, and Uganda to work on water, hygiene, and sanitation-related issues (collectively known a...
I paused for a moment in the no-man’s-land of international travel, staring ahead at the double doors marked “No Re-entry.” The sign might as well have read “No turning b...
Four years ago, at the age of 28, I had a mid-life crisis. Perhaps some would say I was too young to experience such a thing, but I knew differently. I needed a change. I...
Sri Lanka is a country with a burgeoning entrepreneurial spirit. For years, individuals island-wide have jumped at the chance to respond to local demand by starting their...
My epiphany came as I was recovering from serious orthopedic surgery. I had ruptured a disk and nearly broken my back in a snowboarding accident. I lay bedridden in a hos...
Routine. Just the thought alone makes me squirm. “If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.” Paulo Coelho sums up my sentiment exactly. There is a ...
“Batticaloa has no must-see sights…” begins a guidebook that shall remain nameless. A promising start to my year of supporting tourism development in Batticaloa—Batti for...
Growing up in post-Soviet Kazakhstan, I was surrounded by people. If my parents’ house wasn’t filled with relatives and friends, my parents and I were on our way to visit...
Having grown up in Denver, Colorado, I spent a lot of my childhood in the mountains where my dad and I spent hours doing nearly every kind of outdoor activity imaginable:...