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Finance Professor Neil Cohen lecturing at WDI's mini-MBA program.
The William Davidson Institute offers short-term executive education programs for managers in many emerging markets. Current open program offerings are in the areas of General Management, HR, Sales Management, Managing Innovation, Marketing, and Leadership.
 
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OVERVIEW: The William Davidson Institute offers intensive 10-day mini-MBA certificate programs covering: Marketing, Strategy, Organizational Behavior/HR Management, Finance, and Accounting. The mini-MBA programs are taught in English and are open to managers worldwide with a minimum of five years of management experience. Offered since 1993, these are the Institute's most popular executive education programs.
 

STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT PROGRAM

May 12-23, 2008
Riga, Latvia 
     In partnership with the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga

For more information regarding this Strategic Management Program, please click here.

GENERAL MANAGEMENT PROGRAM

Zagreb, Croatia
     In partnership with the Zagreb School of Economics & Management

2008 Dates TBA

 


OVERVIEW: The William Davidson Institute’s new Professionals Programs equip executives with the latest best practices and management tools in their functional areas. WDI is offering two, week-long certificate Professionals Programs in the areas of Human Resources and Marketing. Award-winning faculty from leading US and European business schools teach in the programs. If your university or training institute would like to partner with WDI to offer these programs in an emerging market, or if you are interested in participating in one of these programs, please contact us.

Marketing Professionals Program: This program is designed for the advanced marketer who is challenged by this complex and competitive world. Its begins by situating marketing within the broader context of competition. It offers a new definition of marketing which elevates marketing from the tactical to the strategic level, and re-casts it as the organization's profit center.
October 20-24, 2008
Riga, Latvia
    In partnership with the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga
  View Marketing Professionals Program Brochure

Human Resources Professionals Program: This program gives HR executives new models and a practical set of tools for enhancing their HR department and making a greater strategic impact in their company. Best practices in Human Resources will be shared.
October 15-18, 2008
Prague, Czech Republic
    In partnership with the TAW Czech s.r.o.
View program brochure

February 2-6, 2009
Riga, Latvia
    In partnership with the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga

  View HR Professionals Program Brochure


Leadership for Experienced Managers

OVERVIEW: The premise of Leadership for Experienced Managers is that effective leaders need multiple skills to allow for flexibility in managing and leading in diverse situations. Effective leaders understand the subtleties of personal interaction and how these subtleties relate to the performance objectives of their organization. This course provides an integrated leadership framework to enable each participant to identify and formulate a personalized action-development plan.  

2008 Dates TBA

Managing Innovations Strategically

OVERVIEW:  This program deals with the interface between technological innovation and business strategy. It is argued that although research and development is often at the heart of an organization’s capacity for technological innovation, management of innovation to create value is a complex task that requires an understanding of how an organization can achieve and maintain a high degree of fit with a fast changing environment. The ideas and techniques shared in this program will be just as valuable to independent entrepreneurs and start-up companies, as to managers in established companies.

2008 Dates TBA

Marketing Communications & Brand Building

OVERVIEW: Learn how to develop a strategic approach to developing your brand and create a powerful marketing communications plan. Taught by Rajeev Batra, a top marketing professor and leading expert on global branding from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.

2008 Dates TBA

Mergers and Acquisitions


OVERVIEW: This course presents an opportunity to study in detail how acquisitions contribute to achieving competitive advantage or growth and what conditions need to be met to maximize the probability of success. Participants focus on examining the comparative merits and demerits, understanding the various strategic and organizational issues associated in order to manage it successfully.

2008 Dates TBA

 
latin america

 

Sales Management Program

OVERVIEW:The Sales Management Program addresses three critical topics: the changing business environment and the key role that sales and service play in creating a market-driven organization; the ability of sales management to ensure the performance of individual sellers without micro managing them; and a discussion of the processes and tools to equip you to engage with larger customers and your own support organization on a more strategic level, in order to build toward a more mutually profitable and sustainable relationship.  

July 10-11, 2008
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
  

Strategic HR Executive Program

OVERVIEW: The Strategic HR Executive Program is an innovative executive education program designed for HR vice presidents, directors and managers from throughout Latin America. The 4-day program will give HR executives the opportunity to strengthen and renew their professional expertise. Participants will explore the most relevant issues facing their organization’s human resource area and develop cutting-edge approaches to problem solving. After developing as business leaders and establishing a network of senior-level colleagues, participants will return to work with new ideas and fresh perspectives for leading the HR activities of their firm.

September 30-October 3, 2008
Montevideo, Uruguay
Operations Management Program

OVERVIEW: In today's fiercely competitive business environment, supply chain management has become an important competitive tool. This program is designed to introduce you to cutting-edge models and practical tools for effective supply chain design and management. As a participant, you will learn how to design and implement effective supply chain practices. Special attention will be given to topics including: effective inventory control, distribution and logistics management, and partnering with suppliers and customers to reduce costs and increase service levels. Recent developments and methods for successfully utilizing e-business in supply chain management will also be discussed.

October 6-7, 2008
Santiago, Chile

 
Leadership for Experienced Managers

OVERVIEW: The premise of Leadership for Experienced Managers is that effective leaders need multiple skills to allow for flexibility in managing and leading in diverse situations. Effective leaders understand the subtleties of personal interaction and how these subtleties relate to the performance objectives of their organization. This course provides an integrated leadership framework to enable each participant to identify and formulate a personalized action-development plan.

June 25-26, 2008
San Jose, Costa Rica
October 23-24, 2008
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

 
Services Marketing

OVERVIEW: This seminar is aimed at mid- to high-level executives who have operational and/or strategic responsibilities in services organizations, or in goods organizations in which services are becoming an integral part of the product mix It is designed to sensitize participants to the characteristics which distinguish goods and services, help identify the unique strategic challenges of services, and provide a new set of tools for managing these strategic challenges.

July 3-4, 2008
Santiago, Chile
July 17-18, 2008
Guatemala City, Guatemala
November 12-13, 2008
San Jose, Costa Rica

Marketing Communications & Brand Building

OVERVIEW: Learn how to develop a strategic approach to developing your brand and create a powerful marketing communications plan. Taught by Rajeev Batra, a top marketing professor and leading expert on global branding from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. Open to brand managers, marketing communications managers, advertising & PR managers.

2008 Dates TBA


Talent Management

OVERVIEW:
The "war for talent” has necessitated organizations to charge operating leaders with the responsibility for developing their employees, creating high performance work environments as well as the responsibility for retaining employees. Operating leaders often have not been provided the frameworks and associated skills for achieving these new responsibilities. This session will look at three leadership tools targeted at these challenges: empowerment, engagement and coaching.

May 29-30, 2008
Panama City, Panama

 

Programs in Latin America are in Spanish.  For more information on the Latin American programs, please visit our partner's website by clicking on the logo below.
 
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