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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Plan B: The Brick Bank
the target household’s average savings capacity was $1 per month, that local annual inflation was nearly 20 percent, and that home repairs usually cost about $300.” While that environment was not conducive to the savings program, the team did recommend its... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Sheila Lirio Marcelo
Cambridge, for example, she served as a market research consultant, covering the telecommunications industry in Asia. Her strong interest in the region prompted her to seek a summer internship in the Philippines with Monitor Company, the... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 14 Sep 2015
- News
Helping Investors Have an Impact
make a difference and give back to society. And that in itself was highly rewarding and fulfilling for me. “When I grew up in the Philippines, I experienced a contrast between poverty and material wealth. And throughout my years in the View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Sheila Lirio Marcelo, MBA 1998/JD 1999
Download Sheila Marcelo profile Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1970 Born, Manila, Philippines 1993 Earns BA, Economics, Mount Holyoke College 1999 Earns JD/MBA 1999 Joins HBS as Teaching Fellow 2000 Joins Upromise... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Stephen Fuller Remembered
Soldiers Field, he served for two years as the first president of the Asian Institute of Management in the Philippines and, from 1971 to 1982, as a vice president at General Motors, where he focused on employee relations and workplace... View Details
- 18 Nov 2014
- News
Providing relief when disaster strikes
Erik Dyson (MBA 1999) uses the management skills he learned at HBS to lead All Hands Volunteers, a nonprofit that coordinates volunteers around the world to help communities affected by natural disasters. (Published November 2014) View Details
- 25 Mar 2014
- News
GrabTaxi Makes a Go of It
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Consumption Is America’s Competitive Advantage
fruitfully partner in a global economy. Bhidé argues that high-level know-how developed in other countries benefits the United States because it is highly mobile and cheap: What is invented expensively in Taiwan, for example, can then be produced cheaply in the View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
Image by C.J. Burton As the aftereffects of the 2008 global economic crisis continue to be felt, nonprofit organizations are competing for fewer and fewer dollars. Donors, also feeling the squeeze of a sluggish economy, just don't have as much to go around—and when a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
the Middle East, Armenia, and the Philippines have buoyed sales and enabled Scharfman to double the size of his workforce to 100 over the last five years. “Our selling point is that we make ‘homemade,’ ethnically authentic cheeses, but... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
NYC Club Hosts Nonprofits
Northern California Events in conjunction with students Madrid and Barcelona Northern California Video conferences with faculty Pakistan Philippines Topics addressed at the events included “Innovation, Regulation, and Biomedical Business... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
QUEZON CITY, THE PHILIPPINES: On the edge of this municipality of Manila lies the Payatas dumpsite, the home and sole provider to thousands of scavengers. Payatas and places like it are symbols of a glaring inefficiency: Amid the global economy's great riches, billions... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Action Plan: Net Proceeds
Philippines are a few countries where they operate, ensuring chain of custody of materials and ethical collection, with no child or forced labor. OceanCycle has worked with Patagonia, Herman Miller, and Dell Computer to make products out... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965
manager for Chrysler in Pakistan, Turkey, and the Philippines before coming to HBS. But it did not prepare him for the economic disparity and differences in political systems he witnessed in these countries. "I was shocked," he says. In... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Ink: Framing the Full Picture
Filipinos have been in the United States for longer than the country is old. As far back as 1763, sailors from the Philippines started arriving in the Gulf of Mexico as indentured servants on Spanish galleons. Life on board was so brutal that, at the sight of land,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 18 Nov 2020
- News
Networking Goes Truly Global; Confronting Institutional Racism with Case Method Webinar
their own virtual GNN events. More than 100 alumni attended the HBS Club of the Philippines GNN event, which focused on the “Future Lifestyle of Work” and featured panelists Donnie Tantoco, president, Rustan Commercial Corporation; Josie... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
elected officials.” “Where are the grown-ups?” asked Gadiesh, referring to the lack of 21st-century institutions needed to lead in government and business. Zobel described how wealth disparities in the Philippines create popular distrust... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
to Officer Candidate School. Two years later, on a 4 a.m. drive to a training exercise while stationed in Hawaii, he clicked on NPR and heard reports of the 9/11 attacks. Soon after, his unit was deployed to the Philippines to fight the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
initiative between MIT and the World Bank, he was sent to the Philippines to work with an informal settlement whose 12,000 residents were to be displaced for a resort. “It was a huge aha moment for me,” Mawilmada recalls. “This time, I... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
(OPM 30, 2001) and Blair S. Walker Wiley This is the true story of resolute immigration lawyer and activist Loida Lewis, beginning with her adventure-packed Philippine upbringing. A torrid love affair with brilliant, irascible financier... View Details