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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…

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…