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June 5th, 2008 MWB Co-Founder featured on YouthActionNet.org
June 4th, 2008 MWB featured on Axiom News Axiom News
June 1st, 2008 MWB launches its Magazine, M&D, online. Check it out here: now.
April 14th, 2008 MBAs Without Borders featured entry on Ashoka’s Changemakers.net
March 19th, 2008: MWB featured in Backbone Magazine
February 27th, 2008 MWB Co-Founder featured in Oakville Beaver:
February 1st, 2008 Business For Good Competition Deadline.
January 12th, 2008 MWB featured in Unlimited Magazine - read it here.
January 12th, 2008 JMSB International Business Case Competition raises $3,000+ for MBAs Without Borders with ‘Giving Back.’
January 11th, 2008MBAs Without Borders moves on to the semi-finals for the prestigious Echoing Green award
January 8th, 2008: MWB launches 1st edition of Managing & Developing! Order your copy today! It’s Free.
January 3rd-5th, 2008: MWB Co-Host 2008 Canadian MBA Games http://www.business.mcmaster.ca/MBAGames2008/index.htm
December 11th, 2007 MWB Approved by YouTube for its NonProfit Program. Subscribe today and follow our MBA Volunteers
November 3rd, 2007 MWB T-Shirt “Business Can Do Amazing Things” featured on front of business section of Tennessean at Net Impact Conference.
October 16th, 2007 MWB field partner, Kageno featured in the New York Observer. Read it here.
October 9th, 2007 MWB partner, PFS Program based in Poland, publishes ninth regional survey with support from MWB volunteer, Martin Masse. Read it here!
October 5th, 2007: MBAs Without Borders’ Omar Yaqub featured on Global National’s ‘Everday Hero.’ Read it here or watch it online and rate it here.
September 21st, 2007: We have just found out, that with the support of Orrick LLP, MBAs Without Borders USA has been approved with 501(c)(3) status. This is effective for donations today and back-dated to those who donated as of April 16, 2007.
September 20th: 2007: With the help of a donor’s support at the last minute, MBAs Without Borders will attend the high-profile Clinton Global Initiative next week.
September 19th, 2007: MWB’s Tal Dehtiar to appear on Canada’s Breakfast Television Monday September 24th, 2007. The show airs from 6am-9am and we’re not sure when MWB will be slotted in but don’t forget to watch or program your PVR or TiVo.
September 12th, 2007 MWB featured on CBC.ca -‘Technology for Change.’
August 28th, 2007: Check out MWB’s newest video on YouTube - ‘MBAs Without Borders in India.’
August 23rd, 2007: MWB Featured in Edmonton Journal ‘For MBAs Without Borders, the profit is in saving lives.’
August 22nd, 2007: MWB Featured on CNN.com. Read it here!
August 18th, 2007: MWB Featured in Mexico’s Expansion Magazine. Check it out here.
August 4th, 2007: Tal Dehtiar, President of MWB has been selected as one of the 2007 Youth Action Network Fellows by the Youth Action Foundation.
August 1st, 2007: MWB featured in Business 2.0 this month in ‘The do-gooder’s MBA’ by Peter Viles in What Works. Check out page 42 and 43 in the electronic version provided by Olive’s Software.
July 26th, 2007: MWB has been invited to attend the high-profile Clinton Global Initiative in September in New York City.
July 20th, 2007: MWB featured in Canada’s Globe and Mail (Career Section) newspaper. You can read the print edition here or read the online edition.
July 15th, 2007: MWB has its own online network. Join and meet other MBAs and Entrepreneurs from developing countries and get exclusive updates from MWB at: http://b2d.mbaswithoutborders.org. We’re just trying this out for a few weeks at first (ALPHA/BETA mode) before we make the full launch.
July 10th, 2007: MWB is curently recruiting MBAs for projects in Kenya and Grenada. Check them out today!
June 24th, 2007: MWB President was in Haiti in June visiting MWB MBA, Nevin Ford and Yele Haiti as we plan on building a business centre in Cite Soleil starting early 2008. Check out the video on YouTube or Facebook.
June 1st, 2007 MWB has a need in Rural Kenya working with Kageno. Apply today at: http://projects.mbaswithoutborders.org.
May 22nd, 2007 MWB is at the Development Marketplace today and tomorrow visiting the finalists of the worldwide competition that showcases innovative businesses and NGOs working in developing countries.
May 21st, 2007 YouTube has selected MBAs Without Borders (MWB) as its first Canadian recipient of YouTube Grants providing donated advertising space to MWB while visitors view videos on the YouTube website.
May 2nd, 2007 MWB has 2 new postings in Cambodia and Swaziland starting in June and July of this summer. To apply today, visit http://projects.mbaswithoutborders.org.
April 26th, 2007 MWB enters the United States of America! As of this week, MBAs Without Borders USA is officially registered in the State of California. This is an exciting new chapter for MBAs Without Borders as we expand our organization.
April 22nd, 2007 MWB featured in Trend Hunter: http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/mbas-without-borders
April 20th, 2007 MWB featured in Springwise today so check it out!. Springwise and its global network of 8,000 spotters scan the globe for smart new business ideas, delivering instant inspiration to entrepreneurial minds from San Francisco to Singapore. Time to start the Next Big Thing!
April 11th, 2007 MWB makes it to Wikipedia! We’re in the books of the internet now. To view, edit, upload, etc details about MWB in Wikipedia, please visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MBAs_Without_Borders
April 9th, 2007 MWB Posts 8 new exciting positions in Colombia, Haiti, Nepal, Nicaragua, Mali, Timor-Leste and Ukraine. Apply today at: http://projects.mbaswithoutborders.org
March 26th, 2007: MWB joins the LinkedIn community. Come visit the MWB LinkedIn member group today!
March 23rd, 2007: Jackie Kanja, MBA (Cape Town) leaves for Rwanda as she will be working with Transfair USA and supporting the local coffee co-ops with technical assistance over the next 3 months. Follow Jackie’s Blog over the next 3 months!
March 10th, 2007: CIDER is coming…..
February 21st, 2007: MWB is proud to announce that it has begun developing projects that are combating climate change issues. With MWB’s focus on industries that affect the world’s poorest (Agriculture, Health, Finance, Income-Generation), climate change solutions have enormous potential in developing countries and we are excited to now be active in this area. Watch out for exciting MWB climate change projects in 2007.
February 6th, 2007: MBAs Without Borders is pleased to announce it has now begun working in Central America. We have a new posting in Guatemala where our MBA will work to develop a local business with the aim of providing virtual teaching-aids to local school teachers. Visit the MWB Board to apply today!
January 29th, 2007: MBAs Without Borders is pleased to announce another project with Transfair USA, this time in Ethiopia helping local coffee growers technical assistance. Read here for more details and to apply.
January 26th, 2007: MBAs Without Borders makes it to My Space. Visit us today on one of our new friend networks and add MWB as a friend at www.myspace.com/mbaswithoutborders.
January 17th, 2007: Find your MBA University or College and join fellow MBAs (student and alumni) to fundraise for MBAs Without Borders! Click here to check out this new feature.
January 16th, 2007: MWB posts 2 new exciting projects…Work in Pakistan and Dubai with Vestergard Frandsen and save the poor from Malaria or work in Rwanda and help bring fair wages to producers and coffee growers working alongside Transfair USA.
January 11th, 2007: It’s finally here. We’ve launched the MWB Job Board. MBAs…come check it out and apply to your favorite international postings and Employers…recruit MBAs interested in international development.
December 29th, 2006: Now you can support MBAs Without Border by purchasing products with the MWB Logo! Help support us by wearing the MWB logo loud and proud! Click here to buy your MBAs Without Borders gear today!
December 5th, 2006: Today is International Volunteer Day!
November 20th, 2006: MWB Co-Founders Michael Brown and Tal Dehtiar have been nominated for Canada’s 2006 Top 40 Under 40!
November 1st, 2006: MWB has partnered up with MultiNational Underwriters, LLC (MNU) to provide our volunteers and friends with comprehensive medical protection for all your travels. Click here for more information.
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January 15th, 2008 at 12:28 am
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June 13th, 2008 at 8:12 am
From Haiti.- How is everyone doing! Here we are fine. It is raining almost every day on the evenings which is good for the country and its agriculture. Furthermore, coming from Phoenix Arizona, it will be always enjoyable seeing so much water falling from the sky.
Regarding the work side, I think we are doing fairly well. I am part of a team (Economic Opportunities Development) having as main objective to boost the private sector in the country. We tried to understand first the right meaning of doing business in Haiti; the real importance of micro, medium, midsize, and big businesses. It is quite different! Even comparing with other emerging markets, there is some work to do to put Haiti on the “business track.” The concept of: opportunity, resources, management, product/service, marketing, customer/client, profit, growth is reduced to “let’s live today, tomorrow will do its part.” The Haitian economy is an economy of subsistence, so is business here.
Our job is to support financially a few of the small and medium size businesses to enhance their productivity, promote a business networking, and create the value chain. It seems that the strategy is to put the adequate structure in the field office of Port-au-Prince, launch the program, and then use the Port-au-Prince’s experience to create the same thing in the other four field offices. For the moment, we have done most part of the structure putting together the different internal stakeholders involved in the process, creating the necessary tools (paper work), and identifying the beneficiaries. The program should be launched shortly.
June 29th, 2008 at 8:29 pm
Notes from MWB-Haiti! It is true that we are working in several fronts at the same time but the panorama is better defined now.
Micro grant.- We have designed this tool to help graduating vocational or professional students from disadvantage areas to think about their professional-business lives, and build a basic professional development plan. We give them a kit of tools which, besides their planning, will arm them to enter the market right after graduation. Launched already! The 113 first beneficiaries of this project will receive their respective kits by July 15th.
Small grant.- This was created to support the small businesses. Its main objective is to make the business owners thinking business. We assist them to build a business plan for their business; to enhance their involvement in the wellbeing of their community; and increase their commitment with the safety of the environment. They receive a small subvention (up to 50000USD) which will be matched. With the total amount (CHF subvention and their matching contribution) they finance an implementation project to boost their business and create more jobs.
The Fishermen Association.- 200 men subsist with their family basically from the sea products. We are assisting them to plan their business, make it more productive, and link it to the market.
Animal Production.- A community in one of those vulnerable areas (Morne Hopital) of Port-au-Prince has expressed to us its will to get into the production animal business. There are already grouped in associations, have some experience in this business, have the lands and some raw materials. With our assistance they are building their business.
Other activities.- We are meeting different actors in the big, medium and small private sector to link them and create the value chain. We are also partnering with the national and local government, other groups in the civil society, and NGOs to help in development, infrastructure works, and also create that indispensable synergy to take this country to the next level.