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August 2008
The Jordan University for Science and Technology announced today that 64 Jordanian candidates have applied to the Integrated Natural Resources Management Masters of Science program.

August 2008

WDI recently completed a six-week study to design policies, instruments, and institutions to promote household and corporate savings in West Bank and Gaza. The full report, as well as the interim report, are now available online.

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July 2008
 
WDI has received 100 applications for the 15 spots in the Goldman Sachs BBA Scholarship Program, which begins in August at the School of Finance and Banking (SFB) in Kigali, Rwanda.

June 2008 
A televised press conference was held at INC Career Center on June 4, where the Director of the Career Center, Dr. Ali Belkhiri, announced the 2nd annual Career Fair slated for June 29-30 to the Algerian television and newspapers.  The announcement was televised in the evening news and received national press coverage. 
 

 

June 2008

 

WDI Consultant Dr. Sid Ahmed Benraouane was deployed to the Algerian National Institute of Commerce (INC) Career Center to implement a series of programs on how multinational companies manage their talents pipeline and Algeria integration to the global labor market.

 

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March 2008
 
Dr. Munir Rusan, the Dean of Agriculture and Dr. Mohammad Bataineh at the Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST) recently completed their visit to WDI and Cornell University. 
 

Kazakhstan Marketing Center Project’s Sustainable Track Strengthened with US Visit

March 2008

 

WDI’s sustainability plan for the Marketing Education and Research Center (MERC) development project at the International Academy of Business (IAB) in Almaty, Kazakhstan was launched on March 3, 2008. A sustainable MERC can now carry out its vision of serving as a bridge between academia and the business community in Kazakhstan.

 

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November 2007
 

The village of Buyukkonuk was alive on October 21, 2007 with both locals and visitors for the “Eco Day” event that celebrated ecotourism, a new but steadily developing activity in northern Cyprus. The idea of embracing eco-friendly and sustainable tourism while celebrating their cultural heritage was well appreciated under the slogan of the day “Come experience village traditions and nature at its best.” 

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November 2007
 
A newly-organized career network between female Algerian business managers and female students at the Institute of National Commerce’s Career Center has created great excitement and enthusiasm.

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New management team to lead the School of Finance and Banking (SFB) in Kigali, Rwanda

November 2007
 
Almost 15 months have past since WDI’s Development Consulting Services was asked by the Government of Rwandan to turn around SFB, and position it as a premier business school in the region.
 

 
October 2007
WDI’s JEWEL project entered a new implementing phase fall 2007. Three consulting engagements were completed in a matter of months.
 

October 2007

WDI continues to steadily make its mark as the global leader in the base-of-the-pyramid (BoP) and social enterprise (SE) research as it successfully completes an 18-month assessment and submits a report titled “The Base of the Pyramid Perspective and the Social Enterprise Methodology: Understanding the Facilitating Role for Development Agencies”  to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and its partner nonprofit organization, Pact.

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Marketing Center Adds Prestige as a Result of US Visit

October 2007

The Marketing Education and Research Center (MERC) at the International Academy of Business (IAB) in Almaty, Kazakhstan has been making its presence felt more than ever both among the local businesses and the international marketing community as a result of their key players’ visit to the United States. MERC was founded by the project titled “Marketing Education and Research Center (MERC) in Kazakhstan” administered by the Higher Education for Development (HED) funded by USAID.

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Jordan Natural Resources Focus of WDI Project

Tuesday, July 24, 2007
 
WDI has signed a three-year agreement with Higher Education for Development in Washington to implement the Jordanian Education for Water and Environmental Leadership (JEWEL) project. Higher Education for Development (HED), as part of the American Council on Education, funded the project through a cooperative agreement with USAID.
 

 


Kazakhstan Marketing Center Opens Its Doors

 

 Tuesday, July 03, 2007

 
A center designed to improve marketing expertise in Kazakhstan has opened, the result of a partnership between the International Academy of Business (IAB) in Almaty, Kazakhstan, and the University of Michigan’s William Davidson Institute (WDI). The project was under the administration of Higher Development for Education (HED) and funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development.

WDI, Bearing Point Join Forces
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
The William Davidson Institute has partnered with the leading global consulting firm Bearing Point Inc. for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) program, Support for Economic Growth and Institutional Reform (SEGIR).

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Tuesday, June 12, 2007
 
A new career center has been established at Algeria’s Institute of National Commerce (INC), a result of a Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) in higher education between INC and the University of Michigan’s William Davidson Institute (WDI).
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WDI To Develop Career Center In Algeria
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
WDI has been awarded a strategic contract to provide economic reform management training for future economic and business leaders at the Institute of National Commerce (INC) in Algeria.