by David Lugo Robles | Feb 2, 2023 | Archives, Archives 2022-2023, Club & Campus Life, Finance, Global Affairs, Global Business Insights, Thunderbird School News, Venture Capital, Voices of Thunderbird
Having started three startups in pharmaceutical, agriculture, and herbal medicine in my home country, Zimbabwe, and realizing that there was no funding and connections big enough to grow startups to the level I expected, I started to wonder if the time was right for...
by David Lugo Robles | Jan 9, 2023 | Africa, Archives, Archives 2022-2023, Club & Campus Life, Global Affairs, Global Affairs and Events, Global Business Insights
On Dec 13th, 2022, I received a phone call from the Dean’s office that I would be on the next flight to Washington, DC, the following day to attend one of the most important meetings of my life. Thunderbird School of Global Management under Arizona State...
by Das Tor | Jan 9, 2023 | Archives, Archives 2022-2023, Circular Economy, Club & Campus Life, Global Business Insights, Sustainability, Voices of Thunderbird
According to the Net Zero Tracker, 804 of the 2,000 largest publicly-traded companies have announced goals to reduce their business emissions to zero. Although companies can be quick to announce ambitious climate goals, Boston Consulting Group found that only 11% of...
by David Lugo Robles | Jan 9, 2023 | Archives, Archives 2022-2023, Global Affairs and Events, Global Business Insights, Sustainability, Voices of Thunderbird
Do you have any plans to visit Venice soon? What are your preferred airlines for vacation flights? Don’t forget to bring your iPhone to take nice pictures!!!! But keep in mind that one iPhone creates 64kg of CO2 during its lifetime. A trip from New York to Rome...
by Das Tor | Jan 8, 2023 | Archives, Archives 2022-2023, Club & Campus Life, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Global Business Insights, Voices of Thunderbird
Last year in December, Gibson Sigauke, MGM ‘23 graduate student at the Thunderbird School of Global Management, presented his company, Xiga Money, at the ASU Venture Devils Demo Day (Fall 2022) and made a winning presentation, securing $10,000 in seed funding. Xiga...
by Vyom Chaudhari | Nov 4, 2022 | Archives, Archives 2022-2023, Club & Campus Life, Consulting, Global Business Insights
Thunderbird’s Global Consulting Club has made noise since it was first created at the end of 2021. It has grown from its initial 3 people in the WhatsApp group chat to nearly 200 people. The GCC has also helped a number of people land jobs and internships in the...
