May 13, 2008
Senior-level managers will gather in Riga beginning May 12 for an intensive, two-week Strategic Management Program (SMP) organized by WDI in cooperation with the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga (SSE Riga). Five of the participants are Teeter Scholarship recipients, named in honor of the late Robert Teeter who served on WDI’s Board of Directors.
May 1, 2008
Senior-level managers will gather in Riga beginning May 12 for an intensive, two-week Strategic Management Program (SMP) organized by WDI in cooperation with the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga (SSE Riga). Five of the participants are Teeter Scholarship recipients, named in honor of the late Robert Teeter who served on WDI’s Board of Directors.
April 23, 2008
WDI, along with its Brazilian partner Institute GESC, will hold a two-day workshop in Sao Paolo on strategies to enable NGOs to more effectively advocate for better healthcare policies from the government. The “NGOs and Public Policies” workshop, on April 28-29, will bring in faculty from the University of Michigan, practitioners from WDI’s NGO Alliance in Central and Eastern Europe, and Brazilian experts. Together they will provide practical information for 50 healthcare-related NGOs from Brazil.
April 17, 2008
Ted London, director of WDI’s Base of the Pyramid research initiative, and U-M graduate student Molly Christiansen have won top honors in a prestigious international case writing competition.
March 5, 2008
Ann Arbor News reporter Dave Gershman wrote an article about WDI's new partnership with Goldman Sachs. Read the article
here.
October 31, 2007
WDI Executive Director Robert Kennedy was interviewed by Detroit Free Press business reporter John Gallagher about the state of the domestic auto industry and its future prospects. To read the article, click
here.
Chronicle of Higher Education, August 24, 2007
WDI Director of Consulting Services Khalid Al-Naif is interviewed in the Aug. 24 issue of Chronicle of Higher Education on new USAID rules to ensure money does not go to support terrorism.
Global Services magazine, October 13, 2006
WDI's work with the outsourcing and insourcing advisory firm EquaTerra on a "location attractiveness index" is profiled in a recent edition of the magazine Global Services. WDI Research Manager, Globalization of Services, Ajay Sharma is interviewed for the article. The index looks at both the demand and supply sides of business process outsourcing and what countries are best suited for certain work.
Global Services magazine, October 9, 2006
While visiting India this summer to do research for his book and his MBA course on the globalization of services, WDI Executive Director Robert Kennedy was interviewed by Global Services magazine. Kennedy talks about different aspects of the globalization of services and gives a preview of his upcoming book.
September 27, 2006
Crain's Detroit Business wrote a Sept. 7 article about WDI's engagement with the Government of Rwanda. WDI Executive Director Robert Kennedy and WDI Director of Executive Education Amy Gillett are interviewed by reporter Sheri Begin for the article.
Women's Wear Daily, September 20, 2006
The trade deficit and how it impacts the global economy is the subject of a Sept. 19 article in Women's Wear Daily by reporter Evan Clark. WDI Executive Director Robert Kennedy is interviewed by Clark for the article.
September 19, 2006
Grand Rapids Press reporter Ed Golder writes about the high-profile Michigan gubernatorial race and a series of ads that has split voters. WDI Executive Director Robert Kennedy speaks with Golder about the issue surrounding whether candidate Dick DeVos offshored work to China. To read the article, click
here.
Crain's Detroit Business, September 7, 2006
The William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan has spent the past 14 years teaching management skills to corporations, nonprofits and entrepreneurs in foreign countries with transitional and emerging market economies. But the institute’s newest contract, which begins today in the formerly worn-torn African country of Rwanda, will target, among others, a new set of students — the country’s top 100 government employees. “There’s a real lack of management talent there,” said Robert Kennedy, executive director of the institute and professor of business administration at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at UM.
September 6, 2006
Michigan Radio’s Jack Lessenberry interviewed WDI Executive Director Robert Kennedy about the Institute’s two projects in Rwanda. The piece aired Sept. 5.
Lessenberry, who contributes essays and interviews to the radio station, also recorded his thoughts on the project, Rwanda’s history and what the United States role should be in assisting the former war-torn nation.
Both pieces can be accessed
here.
May 29 - May 30, 2008, Panama City, Panama
Session Title: Empowerment, Engagement and Exceptional Coaching
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.
June 12 - June 14, 2008, Istanbul, Turkey
This program is designed for managers and executives who would like to maximize their potential and that of their subordinates through disciplined coaching and empowerment based on a rigorous assessment of the talents of one's self and others. As one core aspect of this program, we will be examining how building trust is essential for effective coaching of others, and for empowering others to take action. Participants will learn how trust is used to coach and empower others based on the forthcoming book by Aneil Mishra, Ph.D. and Karen Mishra, Ph.D., Trust Me: How to Be the Boss You Always Wanted, to be published early 2008. Throughout the program, a variety of experiential exercises and assessment tools will be used to develop participants' effectiveness as coaches.
For more information, please contact Sharolyn Arnett at wdi_ee@umich.edu.
June 25 - June 26, 2008, San Jose, Costa Rica
The Leadership for Experienced Managers provides an integrated leadership framework to enable each participant to identify and formulate a personalized action-development plan.
This program is offered in Spanish.
July 03 - July 04, 2008, Santiago, Chile
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.
This program is conducted Spanish.
July 10 - July 11, 2008, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
This program is designed for experienced marketing managers, sales managers, and other managers associated with developing and evaluating sales operations. The principles presented are proven to improve sales and performance in corporations of all sizes; industrial, or consumer industries; profit or non-profit companies; product or service providers.
This program will be conducted in Spanish.
July 10 - July 11, 2008, Santiago, Chile
This program is designed for sales and marketing managers who must analyze their markets and prepare a marketing plan. This program offers a comprehensive framework for strategic marketing planning and outlines a structured approach to identifying, understanding, and solving marketing problems. For marketing managers and senior sales managers, this session will present a framework that will help develop a strategy for day-to-day decisions involving product and service design, branding, pricing, promotion, and channel distribution decisions. The session will include a take home set of worksheets that the manager may tailor to his own business.
This program is held in Spanish.
For more information, please contact Sharolyn Arnett at
sarnett@umich.edu
July 17 - July 18, 2008, Guatemala City, Guatemala
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.
This program is conducted in Spanish.
August 06 - August 08, 2008, São Paulo, Brazil
El Comité de WDI y CNU-Brasil están contentos en anunciar la segunda conferencia internacional “Innovación en el Tercero Sector: Sustentación e Impacto Social” (Segundo TSISSI).
Para que obtenga más detalles clic aquí.