MBAs Across America

Huge shout and big hugs to our dear friends at Ross who are pushing Open Road forward and making it their own.

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Team Ross hit the road last week with MBAs Across America in their hometown of Detroit to work with The Empowerment Plan on the coat that is designed to empower those who need it most. Read more about it here!

http://mbaxamerica.com/team-ross-the-empowerment-plan-scaling-employment-opportunities-for-those-who-need-it-most/

Team Ross: The Empowerment Plan: Scaling Employment Opportunities for Those Who Need It Most |... Walking through the manufacturing floor on the second floor of Ponyride, Detroit’s well-known incubator, we hear sewing machines drone in front of 19 women, each responsible for a piece of The Empowerment Plan’s famous coat. The Empowerment Plan (EP) is well known for making coats. The 5-year old no…

Team "Fisherdale" (Fisher - Harvard - Yale) hit the road last week in Detroit. Read about the Detroit Food Academy and Food Lab and the city that is changing people's perceptions. http://mbaxamerica.com/team-fisher-yale-hbs-fishardale-seeing-is-believing-in-detroit/

Team Fisher-Yale-HBS (Fishardale): Seeing is Believing in Detroit | MBAx | MBAs Across America Having never been to Detroit before, our perception of the city was colored entirely by what we’ve seen portrayed in the media: taxpayer bailouts of the Big Three, bankruptcy, and the desertion of two thirds of its population. From the outside looking in, Detroit seemed to be the city that once was.

fellows from Harvard Business School finished the fourth week of their journey with ReadyToWork! Read about how they helped "common people...doing uncommon things" in Dallas.
http://mbaxamerica.com/team-hbs-2-helping-dallas-get-readytowork/

Team HBS 2: Helping Dallas get ReadyToWork | MBAx | MBAs Across America “Common people…doing uncommon things.” That’s the motto of On-Target Supply & Logistics, the parent company of ReadyToWork in Dallas. The slogan is emblazoned across the walls in their headquarters, located in a converted warehouse five minutes – but also a world away – from the trendy Bishop Arts d…

The Dallas Morning News covered Co-founder and CEO Casey Gerald, a Team from Harvard Business School, and their partnership with ReadyToWork! http://www.dallasnews.com/business/columnists/cheryl-hall/20150721-south-dallas-company-gets-summertime-tutorial-from-harvard-mbaers.ece

Cheryl Hall: South Dallas company gets summertime tutorial from Harvard MBA grads Dallas entrepreneur Albert Black’s training company was chosen as an MBA Across America case study.

The team from Harvard Business School has just completed two weeks working with Youth Rebuilding New Orleans to build homes and change lives down in NOLA. Read about the impact of YRNO and keep up to date on the HBS journey this summer!!

http://mbaxamerica.com/team-hbs-2-youth-rebuilding-new-orleans-one-house-at-a-time/

Team HBS 2: Youth Rebuilding New Orleans One House at a Time | MBAx | MBAs Across America New Orleans, Louisiana is home to Bourbon Street, Jazz Music, and an endless list of culinary concoctions. What ties all of this together is the infectious energy and spirit of the New Orleans people. They celebrate both weddings AND funerals with “second line” parades. It is this culture of communi…

fellows from Haas School of Business - UC Berkeley, Harvard Business School and Stanford Graduate School of Business just spent two weeks back at the Root Cafe in Little Rock, AR. Read about their digging in deep to the Little Rock community and all Jack and Corri's amazing work since the journey last year!

http://mbaxamerica.com/team-haas-hbs-gsb-the-root-cafe-digging-deep-into-little-rock/

Team Haas – HBS – GSB: The Root Cafe Digging Deep Into Little Rock | MBAx | MBAs Across America “It’s really hot in Arkansas,” Jack and Cori Sundell warned us before our arrival. Sure enough, upon setting foot in Little Rock, we were greeted with the scorching blaze of a typical Southern summer day. Over the next two weeks, Little Rock showed little reprieve on the heat front, but seared into…

A team of MBAx fellows from NYU Stern School of Business have just finished the last week of their journey! Read about how they found community in Charleston.

http://mbaxamerica.com/team-stern-finding-community-in-charleston-at-candlefish/

Team Stern: Finding Community in Charleston at Candlefish | MBAx | MBAs Across America And so concludes our last week of MBAx2. In our five weeks on the road, we have had the privilege of meeting Americans across the Southeast and helping solve some of the big-picture strategic problems facing small businesses that make a difference in their communities. But no business models or stra…

MBAx Co-founder and CEO Casey Gerald graduates from the Presidential Leadership Scholars program today! Watch the ceremony live at 5pm CT.
http://www.presidentialleadershipscholars.org/2015graduation

Watch Live: President Bush and President Clinton Speak at Graduation of Presidential Leadership... Watch Live on Thursday, July 9 at 5:00 p.m. Central Time.

There's no better place for MBAx teams to celebrate this than on the road!!

Cheers,

The MBAx Team

http://mbaxamerica.com/mbax-celebrates-independence-day-on-the-road/

MBAx Celebrates Independence Day! | MBAx | MBAs Across America This year there’s no better place for MBAx to celebrate Independence Day than on the road! Three MBAx teams are saying their goodbyes after another week of work and collaboration to set out for their next destinations. From Birmingham to Charleston, Daleville, AL to Little Rock, AK, and Nashville…

A team of MBAx fellows from Haas School of Business - UC Berkeley, Harvard Business School, and Stanford Graduate School of Business just finished the second week of their journey! Read about their work with a soldier turned scrapper at Discovery Recycling!
http://mbaxamerica.com/from-soldier-to-scrapper-discovery-recycling/

From Soldier to Scrapper: Discovery Recycling | MBAx | MBAs Across America From 6000 feet up, Daleville, Alabama, is a patchwork of verdant greens and synthetic grays, stitched together around the imposing perimeter of a fortress. Hovering above Fort Rucker in a Blackhawk, the earth below Kevin McManus, a veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, is one in which everyth…