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WDI Senior Fellow Ted London delivered a keynote address on April 8 at the G20-B20 Workshop on Inclusive Business in Ankara, Turkey. The workshop precedes the April 9-10 G20 Development Working Group (DWG) meeting, also in Ankara. London spoke to attendees from government, business, international organizations, and civil society groups…

Two Yale University students have won the 2015 NextBillion Case Writing Competition for their business case that chronicled the mobile money startup venture MPESO in Nicaragua. Students Julian Chernyk and Rodrigo Cuestas followed the founder of MPESO, Haroldo Montealegre, as he pondered whether to expand his mobile money efforts in…

WDI Director of Healthcare Research Prashant Yadav was recently interviewed by the Economic Times in India, that country's largest circulation financial newspaper, about the shortage of skilled health care workers in India. In the article, Yadav said the shortage of workers is not a problem the country's on-the-job training efforts…

The winter 2015 issue of the Davidson Review, featuring a cover story on the Institute's entrepreneurship project in Jordan and the launch of the BoP Roadmap, is now ready to view online. The Review profiles five young Jordanians who have benefited from WDI’s work to build an entrepreneurial mindset at…

Development Consulting Services (DCS) Career Services experts Tom Devlin and Farouk Dey were recently deployed to Manila, Philippines to assist the Technological Institute of the Philippines (TIP) in career center development and industry outreach. Dey and Devlin evaluated the current status of student career services and partnerships with business and…

WDI’s Healthcare Research Initiative hosted a special preview Jan. 28 of a new USAID guide and toolkit designed to help people develop, introduce and scale global health innovations. David Milestone of the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Center for Accelerating Innovation and Impact led the WDI seminar. The center developed, “IDEA…

WDI Senior Research Fellow Ted London recently sat down for a question and answer session with the blog site Global Envision to talk about the base of the pyramid and WDI's recently-released BoP Roadmap. You can read the Q&A session with London here. To learn more about the BoP Roadmap,…

Following a successful Development Consulting Services (DCS) workshop in the Philippines and editorial assistance from GlobaLens case writers, the William Davidson Institute (WDI) is proud to announce the publication of the Philippines Case Collection on the GlobaLens website. The cases are some of the first to be written by Filipino…

WDI Senior Research Fellow Ted London has penned a blog post that calls on BoP leaders to take stock of the inclusive business domain, noting achievements over the past decade, but cautioning that there are warning signs on the horizon. Posted on The Practitioner Hub for Inclusive Business website, “Inflection…

Madison Ayer, who leads two social ventures in Africa, is featured in two recent WDI videos. In the first, Ayer discusses the latest with Honey Care Africa. In the second, he talks about a new venture called Farm Shop. In both videos, Ayer is interviewed by WDI Senior Research Fellow…