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News Archive
July 10, 2008
WDI’s Executive Education will deliver two General Management Programs this fall, running the program in Belgrade for the first time and returning to Zagreb for the sixth consecutive year. The Zagreb School of Economics & Management will partner with WDI for both programs. The intensive 10-day mini-MBA program combines both theory and practice in covering Marketing, Strategy, Organizational Behavior/HR Management, Finance, and Accounting.
July 2, 2008
WDI is currently accepting applications for the Goldman Sachs Entrepreneurship Certificate Program. The application deadline is July 18, 2008. The program, which will be run in fall 2008 and again in spring 2009, is designed for women across Rwanda who are interested in growing their small business or starting a business.
June 17, 2008
A former WDI Global Impact Intern has been selected as a Fulbright scholarship winner. Sean Armstrong, who interned in Mongolia in summer 2006 for WDI, will be returning to the country to study the social and cultural perceptions of alcohol in Mongolia and its effect on treatment.
June 4, 2008
Ted London, director of WDI’s Base of the Pyramid research initiative, was a keynote speaker at a San Diego summit May 30.
London kicked off the conference, “Peace and Prosperity through Trade and Commerce,” with a talk titled “Business and Markets for World Change.” He talked about the potential of multinational companies and other organizations for creating new inclusive business models with low-income groups in emerging economies.
May 30, 2008
WDI Executive Director Robert Kennedy is quoted extensively in a Forbes.com article about seven men who have become billionaires in the outsourcing industry. The Globalization of Services (GoS) is one of WDI's research initiatives, and Kennedy, along with GoS Research Manager Ajay Sharma, is nearing completion of a book on the topic. Click here to read the article.
May 21, 2008
Two WDI Global Impact summer interns recently won first place in a business plan competition sponsored by Wal-Mart. Jeff LeBrun and Tony Gross, who are spending their summer in Mozambique as part of WDI’s Global Impact internships, took top honors in April in Wal-Mart Stores Inc.’s first Better Living Business Plan Challenge which provides business students from around the world an opportunity to invent sustainable products or business solutions.
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. London and Christiansen, who will receive master’s degrees in business and public health later this month, took first place in the 2008 oikos Sustainability Case Writing Competition. Their case, “Scojo Foundation: A vision for growth at the Base of the Pyramid,” beat out a field of 26 competitors from Asia, Australia, Europe and North America.
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.
April 14, 2008
There is one opening remaining for WDI’s Global Impact Internship program. The deadline to apply is Wednesday, April 17. TechnoServe, Inc., a not for profit organization founded in 1968, has a $4.4 million grant from the Inter-American Development Bank's Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF). The funding will enable TechnoServe to run business plan competitions in Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela, specifically targeting small and medium enterprise (SME) creation to supply products and services for the economic base of the pyramid, or “majority” population.
April 9, 2008
Nineteen senior HR managers from Central and Eastern Europe will participate in a WDI workshop that focuses on the particular challenges of competing in and from emerging economies. Workshop participants include representatives from Oracle, IBM, Procter & Gamble, and Raiffeisen International Bank.
April 4, 2008
Economic growth and business development in the Middle East will be the topics of the WDI Speaker Series on April 8. Fadi Ghandour, founder and CEO of Jordan-based Aramex International, and Alonzo L. Fulgham, chief operating officer at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), will be the guest speakers. The event begins at 5 p.m. in Room W2760 in Wyly Hall. A reception will follow.
April 4, 2008
Students interested in a career in international development, especially at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), are encouraged to attend a career information session hosted by Alonzo L. Fulgham, chief operating officer at USAID. The hour-long session will be held at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, April 8 in WDI’s Seminar Room, first floor of Wyly Hall. Those interested in attending should RSVP to Makiko Omitsu, projects administrator at WDI, at momitsu@bus.umich.edu by noon Monday, April 7.
March 27, 2008
WDI’s sustainability plan for the Marketing Education and Research Center (MERC) development project at the International Academy of Business (IAB) in Almaty, Kazakhstan was launched on March 3. A sustainable MERC can now carry out its vision of serving as a bridge between academia and the business community in Kazakhstan.
March 25, 2008
Dr. Munir Rusan and Dr. Mohammad Bataineh of the Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST) recently completed a visit to WDI and one of its partner institutions, Cornell University. WDI has a three-year agreement with Higher Education for Development to implement the Jordanian Education for Water and Environmental Leadership – or JEWEL project. It was designed by WDI with the objective of empowering leadership and decision-making.
March 21, 2008
Fifteen managers will participate in WDI’s Big Picture Marketing executive education program beginning on March 24 in Istanbul, Turkey. The two-day program is an integrated framework that emphasizes the dynamic nature of marketing by presenting key marketing topics as a set of interrelated modules as opposed to separate “chapters” representing topics independently.
March 10, 2008
Ten Multidisciplinary Action Project (MAPs) teams sponsored by WDI have spread out across the country and around the world to conduct their work. The projects, in conjunction with the Ross School of Business, allow MBA students to work full-time with international organizations to create new business models, research new directions, and strategize for the future.
March 5, 2008
The William Davidson Institute has announced a new partnership with The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. to bring business education to Rwandan women who have traditionally been denied opportunities in schooling and business. On March 5 the global banking firm kicked off a new initiative called 10,000 Women. It will provide 10,000 women, predominantly in developing and emerging markets around the world, with a business education. WDI is one of a select group of leading institutions and business schools partnering with Goldman Sachs.
Also, read about WDI's role in the program in this Washington Post article and Ann Arbor News article.
March 3, 2008
Peter Marquera, the president and CEO of the leading global BPO services provider SPi , will be the next guest at the WDI Global Impact Speaker Series at 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 5 in Room W2740 of Wyly Hall. A reception will follow.
February 29, 2008
The application deadline for WDI’s 2008 Global Impact Internship program is 5 p.m. on Monday, March 3. A list of partner organizations and descriptions of summer projects are now available on the WDI website. Click here to review the projects.
February 22, 2008
Ted London, WDI Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Institute’s BoP Research Initiative, is mentioned in a blog on the NextBillion.net website hosted by the World Resources Institute. The post, by Derek Newberry, is about whether corporations will use a powerful PR machine to claim great work at the base of the pyramid without really achieving any results. Newberry cites London’s pathbreaking work on measuring impact at the BoP.
February 21, 2008
A list of partner organizations and descriptions of summer projects for WDI’s 2008 Global Impact Internship program are now available on the WDI website. Click here to review the projects. The application deadline for these initiative-driven internships is 5 p.m. on Monday, March 3.
February 11, 2008
Tom Lantos has served on the board of the William Davidson Institute since its inception in 1992. To honor his contributions to WDI, an endowed professorship was established and endowed in Lantos' name. WDI Executive Director Robert Kennedy was the first recipient.
February 11, 2008
Congressman Tom Lantos, a WDI board member since the Institute’s founding in 1992, died Monday after a short illness. He was 80.
Lantos was on the U-M campus on Oct. 29, 2007 to give a talk at Rackham Amphitheatre on the future of foreign affairs. Read about his talk here. View the talk here. After his talk, Lantos was honored at a luncheon where an endowed chair in his name was announced. WDI Executive Director Robert Kennedy was the first recipient. Read about the endowed Lantos professorship here. To read more about Lantos' life, click here.
February 8, 2008
The woman responsible for community programs for Microsoft in Brazil will be the next guest speaker at the WDI Global Impact Speaker Series. Alcely Strutz Barroso will talk at 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 13 in Room E0550 at the Ross School of Business. A reception will follow.
February 4, 2008
An informational session on the WDI Global Impact Internship Program will be held at 5 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 7 in Room K1310 at the Ross School of Business. The session will cover the Institute’s initiative-driven and self-initiated internships, the application process and the timeline for applying.
January 30, 2008
The application process for student-initiated summer internships through WDI’s 2008 Global Impact Internship program has begun. The internship application, requirements, a wrap-up of last year’s WDI student-initiated internships and other pertinent information can be found here. The application process for the Institute’s initiative-driven summer internships will be announced in mid-February.
January 29, 2008
The videotaped keynote address by Acumen founder and CEO Jacqueline Novogratz from the Jan. 18 Ross Net Impact Forum is now available for viewing. Novogratz talked about Acumen's business model, plans for the future and took questions from the audience. Click here to watch the speech.
January 24, 2008
WDI’s JEWEL project entered a new implementing phase late in 2007. WDI has a three-year agreement with Higher Education for Development to implement the Jordanian Education for Water and Environmental Leadership – or JEWEL - project. It was designed by WDI with the objective of empowering leadership and decision-making. It also will create resources and knowledge networks to improve decision-making in integrated natural resources management in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
January 21, 2008
The woman who founded a sewing co-op in a hillside slum outside Rio de Janeiro will be the next guest speaker at the WDI Global Impact Speaker Series at 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 23. Maria Theresa Leal, who founded Coopa-Roca, will speak in Room E0550 at the Ross School of Business (the Executive Education Bldg.). A reception will follow.
January 16, 2008
WDI’s higher education development project with the School of Finance and Banking (SFB) in Kigali, Rwanda has entered its second year. The goal of the project is to establish SFB as a regional center of excellence in business education by strengthening the administration, developing faculty capabilities in research and pedagogy, improving the curriculum and creating linkages with the business community.
January 14, 2008
A course on social entrepreneurship, which debuted last year due to a growing interest that area among students at the University of Michigan, is being held again this winter at the Ross School.
December 6, 2007
The William Davidson Institute will partner with the Pontis Foundation of Slovakia to offer the Strategic Management Program, a 10-day mini-MBA certificate program, from April 7-18, 2008. The certificate program is expected to attract 25 high potential middle- and senior-level managers from throughout Slovakia, the Czech Republic and other countries of Central Europe.
November 29, 2007
Can the same principle that made the Big Mac such a success transform healthcare in Africa? A WDI panel discussion on franchising health services and drugs in developing countries will be held Dec. 5 with a Kenyan nurse who operates a clinic, an entrepreneur who launches franchise health shops, and two PBS television producers who chronicled the project in an Emmy-nominated broadcast.
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