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Before participating in WDI’s M²GATE Program, University of Michigan sophomore Jackie Spryshak said she had never met anyone from Egypt. Over eight weeks this summer, Spryshak worked with and got to know her teammates from Egypt as they collaborated on their winning social enterprise project as part of the…

WDI is partnering with the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) to enhance the curriculum for an entrepreneurship training program for recent university graduates in Macedonia. The program, first implemented in 2016 by the Youth Educational Forum (YEF) in…

This blog was written by 2018 WDI summer intern Nadia Putri, an MBA candidate at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business. It originally appeared on NextBillion.net, an initiative of WDI.  By Nadia Putri In 2012, Lasmini began working as a daily laborer at East Bali Cashews (EBC) and has worked…

By Colm Fay and Ted London Note: This article originally appeared on PYXERA Global. It is re-published here with permission. In 2017, the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan collaborated with the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves (the Alliance) to assess the lessons learned so far on the Alliance’s journey to accelerate the…

By Amy Gillett How we can  best prepare people to do business in a world changing fast under globalization, technological advances and the continuous disruption of industries is what drives us at WDI’s Education Initiative. One way we accomplish this is by…

WDI’s Entrepreneurship Development Center (EDC) recently lent support and expertise for a pilot project designed to boost entrepreneurial thinking and problem-solving skills among young refugees and local youth in Jakarta, Indonesia.   EDC team members assisted by reviewing and providing input on 40 training modules to be used to teach…

How data shaped the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, how it is transforming local and global problem-solving, and the risks posed by a policy makers and a public increasingly skeptical of data will be the topic of a Oct. 1 talk…

Abanoub Montaser Rodolf of Cairo recently was part of a winning team at a prestigious science competition in Indonesia. But he credits his success there to what he learned earlier in the spring from Ann Arbor. Rodolf was one of more than 500 students who participated in the WDI-organized program…

WDI has been commissioned by Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD), one of the largest global medical technology companies in the world, to be a monitoring and evaluation partner for their BD-PEPFAR public-private partnership with the U.S. State Department’s Office of the…

WDI and the Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship at Santa Clara University will mark the release of a new paper exploring what enterprises and investors have learned about energy access in India with…