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Prashant Yadav, director of the healthcare research initiative at the William Davidson Institute, moderated the panel discussion, “Altering the Future of Well-being, ” Sept. 30 at the World Summit on Innovation and Entrepreneurship in New York City. Made up of six experts in the field of healthcare — Anita Goel…

New WDI President Paul Clyde recently sat down for a Q&A with Crain's Detroit Business reporter Kirk Pinho. Clyde, who was appointed president this past summer, spoke on a number of subjects with Pinho. Read the full interview here. To read more about Clyde and his appointment as president, click…

WDI hosted a webinar Sept. 30 featuring the World Business Council for Sustainable Development’s Social Capital Manager Kitrhona Cerri, who talked about the organization’s new socio-economic measurement program called “Redefining Value.” The webinar was a question-and-answer format led by WDI Impact Assessment Program Manager Heather Esper, tackling a broad range…

NextBillion, an initiative of WDI, is serving as a media partner for the Business Call to Action Annual Forum 2014 in New York City. Held in the same week as the United Nations General Assembly, the forum brings together multinational company leaders, NGOs, small entrepreneurs, and public sector agency representatives…

Bilal Salman was heading into his senior year at Al Quds College in Amman, Jordan when he learned about a new entrepreneurship program at the school. He said he liked the idea of a program to “help students create jobs instead of getting jobs.” The Community College Entrepreneurship: Integration to…

WDI Director of Executive Education Amy Gillett was guest lecturer Sept. 16th and 17th for the Ross School of Business Strategy 425 course - American Business Immersion Study. Gillett spoke with the MBA international students that make up the class about how to network with corporate recruiters. Her talk was…

WDI Senior Research Fellow Ted London kicked off the University of Michigan’s 2nd Annual International Career Pathways series Tuesday, Sept. 16 at the Ford School of Public Policy's Annenberg Auditorium with a keynote address focused on global careers and the developing world. The series is intended to get undergraduate students…

Brittany Johnson, a WDI research associate specializing in global health supply chains, is in Tanzania field-testing an assessment tool to pinpoint bottlenecks that hamper product flow at health facilities. Johnson’s work is part of the World Bank’s Results Based Financing (RBF) program that is being piloted in 31 countries. Results-based…

Four Development Consulting Services’ (DCS’) career center experts are in the Philippines to increase career services expertise at select Philippine universities as part of WDI’s Science, Technology, Research and Innovation for Development (STRIDE) project. Two DCS experts - T. Andrew "Andy" Ceperley and Christian Garcia – will be working with…

NextBillion.net, an initiative of WDI, served as a media partner for two of the year's most influential and well-attended conferences on the global social investment and microfinance calendar. NextBillion Managing Editor Scott Anderson and Heather Esper, WDI program manager for Impact Assessment, were among more than 1,800 attendees at the…