October 21, 2005, Phelps Lounge, Ross School of Business
The University of Michigan is organizing a conference on “Perspectives on the WTO Doha Development Agenda Multilateral Trade Negotiations,” to be held in Ann Arbor, Michigan on Friday, October 21, 2005. The conference is being hosted by the International Policy Center of the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, together with the Department of Economics and the Law School. WDI is one of the sponsors of the conference.
The purpose of the conference is to provide a forum to discuss the most important issues to be addressed during the December 2005 Ministerial Meeting of the WTO in Hong Kong.
September 15 - September 16, 2005, Ann Arbor, MI
This workshop will focus on business and policy implications of increasing global trade in services. It will bring together a select group of leading academics and practitioners from around the world to share their research and experiences, and to help frame WDI research agenda on this topic.
June 28, 2005, Ann Arbor, MI
WDI has partnered with Janeeva, an Ann Arbor-based firm that supplies software and services to companies outsourcing work, to host an Outsourcing Assurance Forum on June 28 in Ann Arbor. The one-day, invitation-only forum for business executives will feature industry luminaries as well as veteran and novice users of outsourcing in an informal setting where users, experts and suppliers can openly discuss winning solutions and strategies. It will be held at the Executive Residence at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.
June 28 - June 29, 2005, Paris, France
The Global Scholar Network will hold a conference June 28-29 on "Institutional Development: The Role of Business" in Paris, France.
May 19 - May 20, 2005, Ann Arbor, WDI seminar room
On May 19-20, WDI organized the workshop “Social Enterprise and Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets: Framing the Issues.”
March 03 - March 05, 2005, Bratislava, Slovakia
The William Davidson Institute, together with the
Pontis Foundation will host the conference "Rethinking the Way in Which NGOs Do Business"
December 12 - December 13, 2004, San Francisco
WDI is a partner for The World Resources Network (WRI)'s December 12-14 conference Eradicating Poverty through Profit - Making Business Work for the Poor. The conference, to be held in San Fransisco, will bring together business leaders, entrepreneurs and senior policymakers to share hands-on experience of proven, profitable, and innovative approaches for a more active and beneficial presence at the bottom of the pyramid.
May 27 - May 30, 2004, Hanoi, Vietnam
This conference was organized by the William Davidson Institute (WDI) and the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), and hosted this year by the National Center for Social Sciences and Humanities of Vietnam (NCSSH) and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). It provided a forum for leading economists and other social scientists working on transition and on broader issues of development and institutional change to meet, present new research, develop collaborative relationships, and complete ongoing research.
April 23, 2004, Washington D.C.
This forum, chaired by Secretary Albright, brought together business and government leaders from both the developed and developing worlds to discuss the challenges and opportunities of offshoring.
April 16 - April 18, 2004, Ann Arbor, MI
This conference was designed to contribute to a debate renewed in the last several years on how best to promote development in an era of globalization. The UN began the process in 2000, by setting out a series of far-reaching and concrete "Millennium Development Goals", which aimed to significantly reduce global poverty by 2020.
March 24, 2004, Washington D.C.
Former U. S. Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright convened this meeting in her capacity as Distinguished Scholar of the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan Business School. We brought together a distinguished group of policymakers, business leaders and scholars from the United States, Europe and international community to address both opportunities and challenges of EU enlargement and its significant implications on foreign policy and the world economy.
December 03, 2003, Washington, D.C.