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Multidisciplinary Action Projects (MAP)

Overview

MAP is a signature action-based learning course offered at the Ross School of Business.  A  MAP team consists of 4-6 Ross MBA students who receive guidance from Ross faculty advisors.  Each project requires analytical rigor, critical thinking, and genuine teamwork.  Sponsors receive top-notch deliverables and data-driven recommendations from the team of students with diverse skills, knowledge, backgrounds, and work experience.

WDI sources a number of international Multidisciplinary Action Projects (MAP)  annually in conjunction with the Ross School of Business.  Through the program, students work with global organizations on projects that focus on the design or improvement of an important business process, solving a real business problem, or exploring strategic market opportunities.  WDI collaborates with large, medium, and small for-profit and nonprofit organizations in offering MAPs in emerging markets.  Recent WDI-MAP partners include Abt Associates, Acumen Fund, Procter & Gamble, Pfizer, Philips Healthcare, GE Healthcare, ITC India Ltd., Imperial Health Sciences, CARE Bangladesh, Grassroots Business Fund, Aravind Eye Hospital, UNDP Mongolia, UNDP Jordan, TetraPak, etc.

WDI sponsored 11 MAP teams in 2019 as part of its mission to support international activities at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business:

  • Aravind Eye Care System   –   India
  • Awash Bank   –   Ethiopia
  • CURE International   –   Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, and Zambia
  • Ghana Emergency Medicine Collaborative   –   Ghana
  • Grace Care Center   –   Sri Lanka
  • India Investment Fund   –   India
  • Infra Group   –   Ethiopia
  • International Clinical Labs   –   Ethiopia
  • Lviv Business School – Ukrainian Catholic University
  • MADE – Poornatha / Aparajitha   –   India
  • The Ihangane Project   –   Rwanda

WDI has sponsored Multidisciplinary Action Projects (MAPs) in collaboration with the Ross School of Business since the mid 90s.  Past projects include:

  • WDI sponsored 9 MAP teams in 2018 with the following partners:
    • Aparajitha Foundation   –   India
    • Aravind Eye Care System   –   India
    • Ghana Emergency Medicine Collaborative   –   Ghana
    • Imperial Logistics   –   South Africa, Malawi, and Kenya
    • Outbound Initiative   –   Brazil
    • REFRESCH, University of Michigan   –   Gabon
    • CURE International   –   Ethiopia
    • Technical Institute of the Philippines   –   The Philippines
    • Vayu   –   Senegal
  • WDI sponsored 13 MAP teams in 2017 with the following partners:
    • Aparajitha Foundation – India
    • Aravind Eye Care System   –   India
    • Banyan Global   –   Ghana
    • Boond Engineering & Development   –   India
    • CARE International   –   Egypt
    • GE Power   –   India
    • IMPERIAL Health Sciences   –   South Africa
    • ITC Limited   –   India
    • Mbuyu Group   –   South Africa
    • Vayu   –   Malawi
    • Global Fairness Initiative   –   Nepal
    • Vietnam Partners, LLC   –   Vietnam
    • African Institute of Management (Institut Africain de Management)   –   Senegal
  • WDI sponsored 13 MAP teams in 2016 with the following partners:
    • Al-Akhawayn University   –  Morocco
    • Aparajitha Foundation    –   India
    • Aravind Eye Care System   –   India
    • Business Support Center Kosovo (BSCK)   –   Kosovo
    • CARE   –   India
    • Georgian Technical University  –  Georgia
    • IMPERIAL Health Sciences   –   South Africa
    • ITC Limited   –   India
    • Little Sparrows Technologies   –  Ethiopia
    • Sustainable Harvest & Relationship Coffee Institute   –   Rwanda
    • Sustainable Harvest & Relationship Coffee Institute   –   Portland, OR
    • UM Human Trafficking Clinic  –  Brazil
    • William Davidson Institute & Zemen Bank  –   Ethiopia
  • 2015
    • Abt Associates   –   Ethiopia
    • Aravind Eye Care System   –   India
    • IMPERIAL Health Sciences   –   South Africa
    • ITC Limited   –   India
    • Tetra Pak   –   Nicaragua
    • VeAhavta   –   Sri Lanka
    • LectureTools; Stockholm School of Economics in Riga   –   Latvia
    • William Davidson Institute   –   Jordan

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