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WDI researchers from the Healthcare Initiative are set to begin the second year of a project aimed at improving the supply chain and cost recovery systems for essential medicines and health commodities in Madagascar. The work in Madagascar is one of four projects WDI is performing for Abt Associates as…

In a perspective article, WDI President Paul Clyde observes the trend of top business schools establishing institutes and programs designed to help develop businesses that make money and simultaneously provide benefits to society. While Clyde sees merit in the educational endeavor and the business practice, he also believes we must…

The University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business recently celebrated 25 years of Multidisciplinary Action Projects (MAPs), an action-based learning course for first-year MBA students who receive guidance from faculty advisers. During that span, 10,438 full-time MBA students have worked on 2,010 projects in 92 countries with 1,352 sponsor companies.…

Rustam Sengupta, a clean energy social entrepreneur, will discuss his mission to bring solar power to some of the 300-plus million people in India who do not have access to electricity as part of the WDI Global Impact Speaker Series. The talk begins at 5 p.m., Nov. 30 in room…

The co-founder of a start-up venture in South Africa that aims to save the honey bee will share how he designed the initiative to have economic, social and environmental impact as part of the WDI Global Impact Speaker Series. The talk begins at 5 p.m., Nov. 16 in room R2230…

WDI’s Education Initiative will develop a new entrepreneurship curriculum for select universities in Papua New Guinea (PNG) and help faculty members deliver the new instruction to students. The longer-term goal of the project is helping the country nurture its small- and medium-sized business sector and diversify its economy away from…

Kristin Babbie, a senior project administrator at WDI’s Grants Management team, recently attended the Global Youth Economic Opportunities Summit and authored the following post for NextBillion.net. NextBillion, a WDI affiliated site, originally published the article on Oct. 12, 2016. In 2013, I interviewed a group of young people at a…

Outsourcing logistical tasks to the private sector could be a key to drastically improving public health supply chains and increasing access to vital health products in developing countries, according to new research co-authored by WDI Senior Research Fellow Prashant Yadav. Yadav and his co-authors cite successes in Senegal after the…

After graduating from the University of Texas, Patrick Huang began  his career as a management consultant while giving free advice to social entrepreneurs in emerging markets. But he soon wanted to do much more than dole out advice on the side, so Huang decided to get his MBA and join…

With demand rising for country-specific business cases, the William Davidson Institute, in collaboration with USAID, delivered its fourth case writing workshop for university faculty in the Philippines – the second held this year in the country. In the past, one workshop was held annually. But this year, a second was…