July 18, 2008
WDI has received 100 applications for the 15 spots in the Goldman Sachs BBA Scholarship Program, which begins in August at the School of Finance and Banking (SFB) in Kigali, Rwanda. The scholarship program focuses on underprivileged but qualified women regardless of age. The first 15 scholarships will be awarded in August and the second set of 15 scholarships will be given out in January 2009.
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.
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.
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.
August 06 - August 08, 2008, São Paulo, Brazil
The WDI and CNU-Brazil Committee are pleased to invite you to take part in the second international conference “Third Sector Innovation: Sustainability and Social Impact” (2nd TSISSI). The focus this year is to continue to raise the profile of the valuable work of social enterprise leaders across Latin America, to share best practices and cases of social innovations in the areas of Innovative Financing Startegies, Human Resources Strategies, Sustainable Social and Economic Opportunities through IT and Models of Cross-Sector Partnerships.
August 11 - August 12, 2008, Santiago, Chile
This program is designed for managers who are involved in identifying, developing, and growing strategic accounts within their companies. Participants will develop a structured plan to deliver “win-win” business solutions against these high potential accounts and return with actionable tools to their organizations. It will provide a methodology to build profitable and sustainable relationships with major customers, in order to increase loyalty and satisfaction levels.
This program will be conducted in Spanish.
For more information, please contact Sharolyn Arnett at sarnett@umich.edu.
August 28 - August 29, 2008, Prague, Czech Republic
The Fall 2008 HR Network Workshop will held August 28-29 at the Hotel Mercure in Prague, Czech Republic. The workshop will be lead by Professor Wayne Brockbank at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.
"The HR Business Proposition"
This workshop will be based on a book published by Professors Brockbank and Dave Ulrich. The book entitled The HR Value Proposition explores their belief that a fundamental transformation of HR starts with a definition of HR value—who the receivers are and a clear statement of what they will receive from HR services.
September 18 - September 19, 2008, San Jose, Costa Rica
This program is designed for managers who are involved in identifying, developing, and growing strategic accounts within their companies. Participants will develop a structured plan to deliver “win-win” business solutions against these high potential accounts and return with actionable tools to their organizations. It will provide a methodology to build profitable and sustainable relationships with major customers, in order to increase loyalty and satisfaction levels.
The program is conducted in Spanish.
September 24 - September 27, 2008, Prague, Czech Republic
Program Overview:
The Marketing Professionals Program is a four-day workshop designed for the advanced marketer who is indeed challenged by this complex, changing, and competitive world. It 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. And it introduces a proprietary 8-Ds framework of strategic marketing management, progressing through this framework step-by-step manner and thereby highlighting the newest tools in marketing.
September 30 - October 03, 2008, Punta del Este, Uruguay
The William Davidson Institute and their Latin American partner, Seminarium, present:
Strategic HR Executive Program
an innovative executive education program designed for HR vice presidents, directors, and managers from throughout Latin America.
This program, to take place in Punta del Este, Uruguay from September 30th to October 3rd, 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 some cutting-edge approaches to problem solving.
October 02 - October 03, 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.