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August 13, 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, is now available online. The study identified the means through which the amount of funds available for loans from individual and corporate savings is sufficient to enable the banking system to provide financing for the growth of small and medium-sized enterprises in the area.
August 11, 2008
WDI will host a Sales Management Program in Santiago, Chile on Aug. 11-12. The program for 70 sales managers and directors 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 towards a more mutually profitable and sustainable relationship.
August 5, 2008
More than 350 leaders from NGOs, government agencies, and businesses throughout Latin America, including industry leaders such as Endeavour, Avina, Ashoka, the Ethos Institute, and CARE Brazil, will convene Aug. 6-8 in Sao Paulo, Brazil for the second annual WDI conference, “Third Sector Innovation: Sustainability and Social Impact” (TSISSI).
July 25, 2008
The 2nd annual Career Fair, organized by WDI's Development Consulting Services (DCS), was held in late June at the Institute of National Commerce (INC) Career Center in Algeria. Approximately 40 national and international companies participated and more than 5,000 students attended. The event garnered extensive media coverage across the country.
July 25, 2008
The 2nd annual Career Fair, organized by WDI's Development Consulting Services (DCS), was held at the Institute of National Commerce (INC) Career Center in Algeria. Approximately 40 national and international companies participated and more than 5,000 students attended. The event garnered extensive media coverage across the country.
July 18, 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. The scholarship program focuses on underprivileged but qualified women regardless of age. The first 15 scholarships will be awarded in August and the second set of 15 scholarships will be given out in January 2009.
July 10, 2008
WDI’s Executive Education will deliver two General Management Programs this fall, running the program in Belgrade for the first time and returning to Zagreb for the sixth consecutive year. The Zagreb School of Economics & Management will partner with WDI for both programs. The intensive 10-day mini-MBA program combines both theory and practice in covering Marketing, Strategy, Organizational Behavior/HR Management, Finance, and Accounting.
July 2, 2008
WDI is currently accepting applications for the Goldman Sachs Entrepreneurship Certificate Program. The application deadline is July 18, 2008. The program, which will be run in fall 2008 and again in spring 2009, is designed for women across Rwanda who are interested in growing their small business or starting a business.
June 17, 2008
A former WDI Global Impact Intern has been selected as a Fulbright scholarship winner. Sean Armstrong, who interned in Mongolia in summer 2006 for WDI, will be returning to the country to study the social and cultural perceptions of alcohol in Mongolia and its effect on treatment.
June 4, 2008
Ted London, director of WDI’s Base of the Pyramid research initiative, was a keynote speaker at a San Diego summit May 30.
London kicked off the conference, “Peace and Prosperity through Trade and Commerce,” with a talk titled “Business and Markets for World Change.” He talked about the potential of multinational companies and other organizations for creating new inclusive business models with low-income groups in emerging economies.
May 30, 2008
WDI Executive Director Robert Kennedy is quoted extensively in a Forbes.com article about seven men who have become billionaires in the outsourcing industry. The Globalization of Services (GoS) is one of WDI's research initiatives, and Kennedy, along with GoS Research Manager Ajay Sharma, is nearing completion of a book on the topic. Click here to read the article.
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