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Open Programs
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| Finance Professor Neil Cohen lecturing at WDI's mini-MBA program. |
The William Davidson Institute offers short-term executive education programs for managers in many emerging markets. Current open program offerings are in the areas of General Management, HR, Sales Management, Managing Innovation, Marketing, and Leadership.
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 For a list of upcoming programs by date, click here.
OVERVIEW: The William Davidson Institute offers intensive 10-day mini-MBA certificate programs covering: Marketing, Strategy, Organizational Behavior/HR Management, Finance, and Accounting. The mini-MBA programs are taught in English and are open to managers with a minimum of five years of management experience. Offered since 1993, these are the Institute's most popular executive education programs. We are offering these in three locations for 2009!
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STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT PROGRAM
April 20-24 & May 11-15, 2009
Moscow, Russia
In partnership with Moscow State University
* This program will be held in Russian
May 18-27, 2009
Riga, Latvia
In partnership with the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga
* This program will be held in English
.gif) View SMP Riga 2009 Brochure
GENERAL MANAGEMENT PROGRAM
Zagreb, Croatia
In partnership with the Zagreb School of Economics & Management
2009 TBD
* This program will be held in English
View GMP Zagreb 2008 Brochure
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Strategic HR Executive Program
OVERVIEW: The Strategic HR Executive Program is an innovative executive education program designed for HR vice presidents, directors and managers from throughout Latin America. The 4-day program gives HR executives the opportunity to strengthen and renew their professional expertise. Participants explore the most relevant issues facing their organization’s human resource area and develop cutting-edge approaches to problem solving. After developing as business leaders and establishing a network of senior-level colleagues, participants will return to work with new ideas and fresh perspectives for leading the HR activities of their firm.
August 25-28, 2009
Cartagena de Indias, Colombia
*This program is offered in Spanish. To download the program brochure, click here.
Leadership for Experienced Managers
OVERVIEW: The premise of Leadership for Experienced Managers is that effective leaders need multiple skills to allow for flexibility in managing and leading in diverse situations. Effective leaders understand the subtleties of personal interaction and how these subtleties relate to the performance objectives of their organization. This course provides an integrated leadership framework to enable each participant to identify and formulate a personalized action-development plan.
March 12-13, 2009
Panama City, Panama
June 18-19, 2009
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Oct 22-23, 2009
Santiago, Chile
*This program is offered in Spanish.
Services Marketing
OVERVIEW: This seminar is aimed at mid- to high-level executives who have operational and/or strategic responsibilities in services organizations, or in goods organizations in which services are becoming an integral part of the product mix It is designed to sensitize participants to the characteristics which distinguish goods and services, help identify the unique strategic challenges of services, and provide a new set of tools for managing these strategic challenges.
March 12-13, 2009
Panama City, Panama
*This program is offered in Spanish.
Talent Management
OVERVIEW:The "war for talent” has necessitated organizations to charge operating leaders with the responsibility for developing their employees, creating high performance work environments as well as the responsibility for retaining employees. Operating leaders often have not been provided the frameworks and associated skills for achieving these new responsibilities. This session will look at three leadership tools targeted at these challenges: empowerment, engagement and coaching.
July 9-10, 2009
San José, Costa Rica
*This program is offered in Spanish.
Sales Management Program
OVERVIEW:The Sales Management Program addresses three critical topics: the changing business environment and the key role that sales and service play in creating a market-driven organization; the ability of sales management to ensure the performance of individual sellers without micro managing them; and a discussion of the processes and tools to equip you to engage with larger customers and your own support organization on a more strategic level, in order to build toward a more mutually profitable and sustainable relationship.
March 12-13, 2009
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
April 27-28, 2009
Bogota, Colombia
October 22-23, 2009
Santiago, Chile
November 5-6, 2009
San José, Costa Rica
*This program is offered in Spanish.
Financial Control Systems for Performance Measurement, Evaluation & Management
OVERVIEW: This program focuses on current financial control systems that help firms measure and evaluate organizational performance. Mastery of these systems can help your firm gain a competitive advantage. This program will help CFOs, financial directors, and operating managers to:
· Evaluate the current profitability of products, services, customers, suppliers, and distribution channels
· Use budgeting processes and deviation analysis to control and analyze operations in an uncertain environment
· Understand the types of risks companies face and methods for managing these risks
· Design effective management control systems and performance evaluation measures
· Understand the types of business environment and corporate attitudes that can foster fraud
May 4-5, 2009
Santiago, Chile
August 13-14, 2009
San José, Costa Rica
*This program is offered in Spanish.
Marketing Communications & Brand Building
OVERVIEW: Learn how to develop a strategic approach to developing your brand and create a powerful marketing communications plan. Taught by Rajeev Batra, a top marketing professor and leading expert on global branding from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.
August 6-7, 2009
Santiago, Chile
*This program is offered in Spanish.
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New Products and Services Development
OVERVIEW: Developing new products and services is the lifeblood of modern corporations. What distinguishes excellent organizations from the rest is developing innovative, exciting, and inspiring products and services with vision and effective mobilization of resources. As markets, resources, and capabilities become more globally distributed, this multi-functional task has become more complex and challenging. The New Products & Services Development Program (NPSD) is a three-day workshop designed to give you a hands-on understanding of the key challenges, concepts, tools and methodologies for planning and executing new product and service innovation. Please click here for more information.
2009 Dates TBA
Managing Innovations 
OVERVIEW: This program deals with the interface between technological innovation and business strategy. It is argued that although research and development is often at the heart of an organization’s capacity for technological innovation, management of innovation to create value is a complex task that requires an understanding of how an organization can achieve and maintain a high degree of fit with a fast changing environment. The ideas and techniques shared in this program will be just as valuable to independent entrepreneurs and start-up companies, as to managers in established companies.
2009 Dates TBA
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Project Management
OVERVIEW: Project Management is one of the world’s most in-demand skill sets and is one of the fastest growing professional disciplines. Multi-billion-dollar corporations, governments, and smaller organizations alike use project management (PM) as a means of meeting their customers’ or constituents’ needs to complete a project in the most effective and efficient manner. In this course, participants learn advanced techniques for scheduling, estimating, budgeting, optimizing project plans and team building through an interactive class presentation. Participants also learn how to use Microsoft Project Management software through hands-on PC work.
2009 Dates TBA
Mergers and Acquisitions
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OVERVIEW: This program presents an opportunity to study in detail how acquisitions contribute to achieving competitive advantage or growth and what conditions need to be met to maximize the probability of success. Participants focus on examining the comparative merits and demerits, understanding the various strategic and organizational issues associated in order to manage it successfully.
2009 Dates TBA
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