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Grantees will create opportunities for U.S. and international students to build global competencies and career readiness skills through virtual exchange. Ann Arbor and Washington, D.C., April 24, 2019 – Today, the Stevens Initiative announced funding for Business & Culture: A Virtual Practicum implemented by the William Davidson Institute…

Although it has been six years since her WDI summer internship in Vietnam and Cambodia, Tae-Hwa Eo still remembers how those three months working for a nonprofit, global health organization made an impression on her. Before she began her MBA studies, she had worked for a for-profit food company…

When leaders at Pacific Adventist University (PAU), based in Papua New Guinea, wanted to add more entrepreneurship undergraduate courses last year, it turned to WDI’s Education team and its Entrepreneurship Development Center for help developing and evaluating the new curriculum. A month ago, PAU debuted its new double major…

By Rebecca Baylor In my work as a research associate on WDI’s Performance Measurement and Improvement team, evaluation of impact is paramount.  We work with leaders from businesses and nonprofits to measure their impacts and help them continuously improve on a variety of outcomes – from understanding their employees’ quality…

Carrie Boyle, a MBA student at Michigan’s Ross School of Business, hopes to work in philanthropy somewhere in the U.S. after graduation. But for a couple of weeks in March, she is excited to be traveling to India as part of the school’s annual Multidisciplinary Action Projects (MAP). “Working in…

WDI designed an innovative virtual exchange program using modern technologies to give students an exciting real-world learning experience. The latest WDI Impact Report, “Building Bridges Through Virtual Collaboration,” chronicles how WDI utilized the latest virtual learning tools to bridge the gap between countries, communities and cultures and bring students…

Sally Stephens, the Feb. 12 WDI Global Impact Speaker and chief business officer of Medicines360, the only nonprofit pharmaceutical company with a marketed product in the U.S., sat down for a one-on-one interview while on campus. (Watch the interview below.) Stephens was interviewed by Andrea Bare, senior advisor with WDI’s…

It’s a new era when it comes to cooperation between some of the world’s largest corporations, governments and nonprofit organizations working together to address some of the most pressing social and environmental challenges. So argued Tami Kesselman, an expert in impact investing and WDI’s Global Impact Speaker in January. Kesselman…

My grandfather was a farmer from Farley, Iowa, but in many ways he was also an entrepreneur. He experimented with innovative farming techniques, calculated and assumed financial risks in unpredictable environments and, most importantly, created value-added products for his customers. Like any effective executive, he managed multiple streams of revenue,…

Considering how innovative business models can improve access to quality medicines for women regardless of where they live, their insurance status, or whether they can pay will be the topic of the next WDI Global Impact Speaker Series.  Sally Stephens, chief business officer of Medicines360, the only nonprofit pharmaceutical company…