A quintet of UCLA Anderson students was commissioned by Conservation International Guyana to assess the feasibility of blockchain technology to solve a major challenge in the implementation and scaling of the Community Development Plan (CDP) in Guyana. The work was conducted in the group’s Applied Management Research (AMR) project, the field study assignment that serves as the capstone of Anderson’s full-time MBA experience. The team, comprising Class of 2018’s Miriam Leah Feygenson, Yuhei Iwasaki, Vasiya Krishnan, Anubhav Mishra and Harshita Mishra, was awarded the inaugural Impact Alumni AMR Award and received a $5,000 prize.
The Impact Alumni AMR Award recognizes the MBA student team that has excelled at making the greatest impact on their mission-driven client’s project through the course of the AMR program.
Earlier this year, the team published a story about their experience on the UCLA Anderson blog.
“This award was established to highlight and appreciate the specialized skills and abilities needed to work with a mission-driven organization’s unique need to balance financial and social impact returns,” says Bhavna Sivanand (’14), executive director of the school’s Impact@Anderson initiative. “An important objective for Impact@Anderson is to integrate impact into the core competency of the MBA program, so that all MBA graduates seek out opportunities such as social impact AMRs to be able to positively contribute to society during their time here and beyond.”
IBM blockchain is trying to build the system where the delivery of vegetable from farms to market will measure the carbon footprint. Very similar to this innovative approach.
Posted by: Dev Joshi | 09/09/2018 at 01:58 PM
A lot of noise has been made about the potential of blockchain technology over the last few years but not much has been explored in the area of using blockchain for social and community impact projects and poverty alleviation initiatives. It's refreshing to see the MBA program focusing on training future leaders who see this potential. Congrats on the award.
Posted by: Van Moss | 08/24/2018 at 02:06 AM
This is one of the most innovative applications of blockchain technology outside finance and healthcare that I have come across and similar endeavours should be encouraged.
Posted by: Mark | 08/18/2018 at 03:02 AM
While Bitcoin is still using lots of energy, blockchain technology is encouraging people to go green
Posted by: Emma Wardberg | 08/16/2018 at 07:32 AM
The blockchain is an undeniably ingenious invention – the brainchild of a person or group of people known by the pseudonym, Satoshi Nakamoto. The blockchain is an incorruptible digital ledger of economic transactions that can be programmed to record not just financial transactions but virtually everything of value.
Posted by: julia keith | 07/18/2018 at 11:44 AM