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Open Programs
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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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OVERVIEW: The William Davidson Institute’s new Professionals Programs equip executives with the latest best practices and management tools in their functional areas. WDI is offering two, week-long certificate Professionals Programs in the areas of Human Resources and Marketing. Award-winning faculty from leading US and European business schools teach in the programs. If your university or training institute would like to partner with WDI to offer these programs in an emerging market, or if you are interested in participating in one of these programs, please contact us.
MARKETING PROFESSIONALS PROGRAM:
This program is designed for the advanced marketer who is challenged by this complex and competitive world. Its begins by situating marketing within the broader context of competition. It offers a new definition of marketing which elevates marketing from the tactical to the strategic level, and re-casts it as the organization's profit center.
October 20-23, 2008
Riga, Latvia
In partnership with the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga
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HUMAN RESOURCES PROFESSIONALS PROGRAM:
This program gives HR executives new models and a practical set of tools for enhancing their HR department and making a greater strategic impact in their company. Best practices in Human Resources will be shared.
October 15-18, 2008
Prague, Czech Republic
In partnership with the TAW Czech s.r.o.
View HR Program brochure
February 2-6, 2009
Riga, Latvia
In partnership with the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga
View HR Program Brochure
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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 worldwide with a minimum of five years of management experience. Offered since 1993, these are the Institute's most popular executive education programs.
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GENERAL MANAGEMENT PROGRAM
October 13-18 & 24-28, 2008
Zagreb, Croatia
In partnership with the Zagreb School of Economics & Management
View GMP Zagreb 2007 Brochure
October 15-18 & 24-30, 2008
Belgrade, Croatia
In partnership with the Zagreb School of Economics & Management
View GMP Belgrade 2008 Brochure
STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT PROGRAM
May 18-27, 2009
Riga, Latvia
In partnership with the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga
View SMP Riga 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 will give HR executives the opportunity to strengthen and renew their professional expertise. Participants will 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.
*This program is offered in Spanish.
September 30-October 3, 2008
Montevideo, Uruguay
Operations Management Program
OVERVIEW: In today's fiercely competitive business environment, supply chain management has become an important competitive tool. This program is designed to introduce you to cutting-edge models and practical tools for effective supply chain design and management. As a participant, you will learn how to design and implement effective supply chain practices. Special attention will be given to topics including: effective inventory control, distribution and logistics management, and partnering with suppliers and customers to reduce costs and increase service levels. Recent developments and methods for successfully utilizing e-business in supply chain management will also be discussed.
*This program is offered in Spanish.
October 6-7, 2008
Santiago, Chile
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.
*This program is offered in Spanish.
October 2-3, 2008
San José, Costa Rica
October 23-24, 2008
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
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.
*This program is offered in Spanish.
November 12-13, 2008
San José, Costa Rica
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.
*This program is offered in Spanish.
2008 Dates TBA
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.
*This program is offered in Spanish.
2009 Dates TBA
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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.
2008 Dates TBA
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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.
2008 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.
2008 Dates TBA
Mergers and Acquisitions
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OVERVIEW: This course 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.
2008 Dates TBA
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