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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.
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.
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