WDI IN THE NEWS
March 27, 2009
WDI Executive Director Robert Kennedy is interviewed by Wall Street Journal reporter William Bulkeley for a March 27, 2009 article on IBM's employment plans in the U.S. and India. Click the "More Details" button to read the article.
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
Ann Arbor News business reporter Mike Ramsey interviews WDI Executive Director Robert Kennedy and WDI Executive Education Director Amy Gillett about the Institute's two projects in Rwanda. Click
here to read the article.
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.
September 5, 2006
WDI's project with the Government of Rwanda is detailed in an article in The New Times, Rwanda's leading newspaper. WDI has started a training program for senior government ministers and has begun working with the School of Finance and Banking in Kigali.
August 24, 2006
Detroit Free Press columnist Tom Walsh wrote about WDI's upcoming work in Rwanda. Walsh interviewed WDI Executive Director Robert Kennedy and Professor Rob Pasick, who will lead the first training sessions of Rwanda government ministers.
The New Times, August 14, 2006
Saying a "Lack of training is a cancer that threatens the national fabric and hampers service delivery of countries," Rwanda's Minister of Public Service and Labour announced that WDI would provide training sessions for top government officials. The first training session begins Sept. 4. The comments of Prof. Manasseh Nshuti were in an Aug. 4 article in The New Times, Rwanda's leading newspaper. He said the training would improve smooth management and build internal administration capacity.
Crain's Detroit Business, April 17, 2006
WDI Executive Director Robert Kennedy is interviewed for an April 10 article in Crain's Detroit Business about offshoring. In the article, Kennedy said companies who consider offshoring need to do due diligence ahead of time.
April 6, 2006
WDI's Davidson Data Center and Network (DDCN) was mentioned in a January 24 article in the Financial Times.
DDCN has two main components: a data locator and a data archive. They are both integrated into a fully searchable database and presented under the same user friendly interface. The goal of the project is to preserve and make widely available micro and macro data from transition and emerging markets as well as to facilitate the uncovering of the existing data sets. To read the article, click
here.
March 16, 2006
Porter McConnell, coordinator of WDI's NGO Alliance in Latin America & the Caribbean, recently wrote an article for The Journal of the International Institute on the pitfalls and promise of social enterprise.
The Detroit News, December 7, 2005
WDI Executive Director Robert Kennedy is interviewed for a Dec. 6 Detroit News article about small Michigan firms beginning to offshore some of their work.
The Monroe Street Journal, November 2, 2005
The Monroe Street Journal, the student publication of Michigan's Ross School of Business, wrote about documentary filmmaker Robert Grove who kicked off WDI's Social Enterprise Speaker Series.
Black Enterprise, July 8, 2005
WDI Executive Director Robert Kennedy is interviewed for the June issue of Black Enterprise magazine on the effects of offshoring on American businesses. The article talks with black business owners about how they are dealing with offshoring.
CNBC’s “Closing Bell.”, June 30, 2005
WDI Executive Director Robert Kennedy appeared on a June 21 segment on CNBC’s “Closing Bell.” Kennedy was interviewed by reporter Phil LeBeau on the takeover bids for two U.S. companies by two Chinese firms. Chinese appliance maker Haier has put in a bid to buy Maytag while the Chinese National Offshore Oil Corp. (CNOOC) has put an offer on Unocal.
Ann Arbor News, June 29, 2005
The Ann Arbor News wrote about the June 28 Outsourcing Assurance Forum co-hosted by WDI and Janeeva. In the article, WDI Executive Director Robert Kennedy is quoted about the future of offshoring.
Detroit News , May 13, 2005
WDI Executive Director Robert Kennedy is interviewed by Detroit News Editor Nolan Finley for a May 8 article on Social Security reform.
Gannett News Service , May 13, 2005
WDI Executive Director Robert Kennedy is interviewed by Washington, D.C.-based Gannett News Service reporter Raju Chebium about Social Security reform on Capitol Hill.
Crain's Detroit Business, May 2, 2005
WDI Executive Education Director Amy Gillett is interviewed in the April 25 edition of Crain's Detroit Business about the Institute's partnership with John Psarouthakis' Institute of Management Leadership in Greece. WDI's Executive Education will offer its "Finance for Non-Financial Managers" and "General Management Program" in Greece this year for mid- to senior-level managers from local and multinational companies operating in the region.
Business Finance, April 27, 2005
WDI Executive Director Robert Kennedy is interviewed in the April issue of Business Finance magazine on how offshoring will affect wages in the United States and other advanced economies.
The International Herald Tribune, April 19, 2005
WDI Executive Director Robert Kennedy is interviewed for an April 16 story in the International Herald Tribune on students earning their MBAs in Europe and the United States forsaking jobs there for opportunities in the emerging markets.
March 14, 2005
WDI has a long relationship with the Aravind Eye Hospital in India. The Institute has funded student MBA teams over the years to work with the hospital staff on business plans.
San Angelo (Tex.), March 3, 2005
WDI Executive Director Robert Kennedy was interviewed by Eric Finley, a reporter for the San Angelo (Tex.) Standard-Times and Scripps Howard News Service about Social Security reform.
Crain's Detroit Business, February 21, 2005
WDI's Executive Education Director Amy Gillett is quoted in a Crain's Detroit Business article on an Ann Arbor company that trains foreign nationals in English pronunciation and accent reduction. WDI used the company when 15 managers from Vinacoal, the Vietnames national coal company, came to WDI for a five-week business course last summer.
Detroit Free Press, January 17, 2005
WDI Executive Director Robert Kennedy penned an op-ed on Social Security reform for the Jan. 17, 2005 edition of the Detroit Free Press.
The Washington Times, July 7, 2004
One of the first TV ads of the Kerry-Edwards Democratic ticket promises to focus attention on Bush administration policies that the campaign said allow and even encourage companies to ship American jobs to overseas markets, but economists argue the accusation is nothing more than political posturing.
Detroit News, July 6, 2004
Under the rallying cry of saving American jobs, 36 states are considering passing laws that ban state contracts to companies that send work overseas.
Crain's Business, July 5, 2004
Add another winner to Bill Davidson's stable of champions.
Sure, he has the Detroit Pistons, the Detroit Shock and the Tampa Bay Lightning, cornering the championships in three leagues in the past year.
Crain’s Detroit Business, June 24, 2004
To successfully compete in the future, all large corporations should consider moving some of their business functions to other countries, said Robert Kennedy, executive director of the William Davidson Institute and professor of corporate strategy and international business for the University of Michigan.
Washington Post, June 17, 2004
Viet Nam News, June 3, 2004
President Tran Duc Luong on Tuesday thanked foreign specialists for sharing their experiences relating to transitional economies which he said offered valuable lessons to Viet Nam
in its continued development.
Viet Nam News, June 2, 2004
Leaders and policy makers gathered in Ha Noi on Monday to analyse and share lessons of the past two decades from countries in economic transition.
Viet Nam News, June 1, 2004
The Ann Arbor News, May 12, 2004
When the William Davidson Institute first came together, the Berlin Wall had just fallen apart.
Affiliated with the University of Michigan Business School, the institute was launched with an ambitious mission of educating business leaders in Soviet -era countries as their homelands traveled the bumpy road from communist to market-driven economies. The Ann Arbor nonprofit,
known as the WDI, has sent hundreds of students and dozens of professors to conduct research and instruct executives across eastern and central Europe, as well as Russia.
May 2, 2004
Robert E. Kennedy, an expert on business strategy and industrial dynamics in emerging economies, became executive director of the William Davidson Institute (WDI) at the University of Michigan Business School on May 1.
Kennedy, who joined the Business School in September as a professor of business administration and as the associate director of WDI, succeeded Jan Svejnar, who returned to teaching full time at the Business School.
The Daily Oakland Press, April 25, 2004
He's both visible and intensely private - a billionaire sports team owner who sits among the fans at Pistons games but who rarely talks to the media.
Having transformed a small, family windshield company into the multibillion-dollar, multinational Guardian Industries Corp., Bill Davidson also has become one of the most powerful forces in sports. With professional basketball and hockey playoffs under way, two of Davidson's franchises - the Pistons of the National Basketball Association and the Tampa Bay Lightning of the National Hockey League - are in the public spotlight, testaments to his success.
Ann Arbor News, March 28, 2004
Though outsourcing has become an election-year hot potato and many Americans are worried about losing their jobs to overseas workers, business schools view the phenomenon as an inevitable part of the global marketplace and are training students to manage an outsourced work force while studying its impact.
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