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Note: This is one in an ongoing series of articles profiling past WDI interns and Multidisciplinary Action Project (MAP) team members and their career paths. Additional profiles in the series may be found here. On June 17th, Zara Ahmed will take a moment during her hectic day to stop and think…

WDI’s Education Initiative is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its popular, intensive two-week Strategic Management Program – also known as a “mini-MBA” – at the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, Latvia (SSE Riga). The program, tailored for high potential, mid- to senior-level managers, begins today (May 9). But before…

WDI Senior Research Fellow Ted London will be the featured guest for a May 17 webinar organized by Business Call to Action (BCtA) and the Practitioner Hub on Inclusive Business. Click here to register for the free webinar, which begins at 9 a.m. Eastern U.S. London, who also leads the Institute’s…

When the Berlin Wall fell in late 1989, taking with it communism in Eastern Europe, it triggered the region’s transition from a command economy to a market one. In what seemed like an instant, the way the Soviet bloc countries had operated for decades was changing. “Things happened quite quickly,”…

WDI faculty affiliate Matt Brown is scheduled to travel to Bahrain in May for the next phase of an entrepreneurship training program started in 2014 and designed by WDI in partnership with the Washington, D.C.-based Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) to not only increase the number of entrepreneurs in…

Harvard Business Publishing (HBP), the world’s leading case study publisher, has begun distributing select business cases from WDI Publishing under an agreement between the two organizations. The non-exclusive agreement will allow wider distribution and adoption of WDI Publishing cases authored by University of Michigan faculty, said Sandy Draheim, manager of marketing…

NextBillion, one of the internet’s first media sites focused exclusively on social entrepreneurship and base of the pyramid venture development, recently celebrated 10 years online. As NextBillion’s parent organization for nearly half of that time, WDI sees a bright future for the site, which serves as a one-stop destination for…

Sir Fazle Hasan Abed was recently on the University of Michigan campus to receive a global health award. While there, he sat down with Kyle Poplin, editor for NextBillion Healthcare, an initiative of WDI, to talk about his work in Bangladesh. This article was originally published April 13, 2016 on…

Note: This is one in an ongoing series of articles profiling past WDI interns and Multidisciplinary Action Project (MAP) team members and their career paths. Additional profiles in the series may be found here. It was a trip to the Soviet Union for a student exchange program when Per Hong was…

Julie Felker, who will  lead a WDI case writing workshop in the Philippines in April, said writing a business case is like penning a detective novel. “There are many unknowns, information is not always clear, and students have to put the pieces together to solve the mystery – meaning, make…