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WDI Healthcare Research Associate Leslie Arney attended the Coordinated Supply Planning (CSP) group meeting in Copenhagen to present an overview of demand forecasting for health products and WDI’s experience and best practices in demand forecasting. The CSP group asked Arney and Prashant Yadav, director of WDI’s Healthcare Research Initiative, to…

The use of more strategic contracting practices could result in substantial improvements in procurement efficiency and health commodity availability in developing countries, according to an article written by two members of the WDI Healthcare Research Initiative, along two supply chain experts from the government consulting firm LMI. The article, “Strategic…

The summer 2014 issue of the Davidson Review, the biannual newsletter of WDI that examines the recent work done by the Institute, has been published. Click here to view a "page flip" version on your computer, iPhone, iPad or tablet device. Click here to download a PDF. The Review chronicles…

An academic article authored by Ted London, director of WDI's BoP research initiative, Heather Esper, manager of WDI's BoP impact assessment program, and Yaquta Kanchwala Fatehi, a BoP research associate, was named one of five finalists for “best paper” in the Social Issues in Management (SIM) division at the Academy…

GlobaLens, WDI's case publishing division, exhibited at the 74th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM) in Philadelphia. This was the third consecutive year GlobaLens has exhibited at this global event for academics and scholars. Last year's AOM event in Orlando attracted more than 8,000 attendees and the same…

The 2015 NextBillion Case Writing Competition, which recognizes and publishes the best-written case studies about business strategies aimed at alleviating poverty - especially at the base of the pyramid (BoP) – returns for another year. Last year’s competition attracted 52 entries representing 34 universities and 15 countries. Get all the…

The third and final webinar presented July 18 by WDI’s Impact Assessment program is now available for viewing online. The webinar, “Enhancing Poverty Alleviation Performance: Quantifying Changes Experienced By Local Stakeholders,” focused on quantitative methods to assess multidimensional impacts. Click here to watch the webinar. The webinar covered how WDI’s…

WDI Director of Healthcare Research Prashant Yadav is in Ethiopia researching the country’s health care system. He was interviewed by the Global Michigan website editor William Foreman about the growth the country is experiencing. Foreman is in Ethiopia chronicling the university’s growing work in that country, and will feature a…

Paul Clyde, a lecturer in business economics and public policy at the Ross School of Business, has been named the new president of the William Davidson Institute. Alison Davis-Blake, dean of the Ross School and chair of the WDI Board of Directors, made the announcement on June 30. Here is…