Program Objectives
How Will You and Your Organization Benefit?
Going beyond the basic transmission of skills and theories, the program provides lessons and insights into relevant project experience and corporate engagements that can be applied within your organization. You will acquire a fresh perspective on the global development agenda from an innovative curriculum, world-renowned guest lecturers, and a selected group of elite peers from around the world.
Diploma
Upon completion of the final projects, participants will receive a World Bank Institute Diploma. |
This unique program offers you insights to build corporate strategies that fight poverty while delivering profits. An innovative learning model will encourage you to learn how your organization can not only meet the bottom line, but develop working business models that include the world’s poor as investors, producers, sellers and buyers. Specifically, you will:
- Gain a unique interdisciplinary perspective on how to align social and environmental issues with corporate strategy and develop successful business models in low income markets.
- Explore how global trends, global imbalances, and global opportunities affect corporate strategy as well as the broader development objective of reaching the “4 Billion” at the base of the pyramid.
- Identify the gaps in existing market institutions which may be acting as barriers to growth and understand how to overcome them.
- Learn interdisciplinary approaches to complex issues including the elements of good governance and accountability, cross-sectoral partnerships, and measuring impact.
- Capture lessons from relevant project experience and corporate initiatives that could be applied within your organization.
Target audience
The program is designed for business executives from larger companies responsible for managing business in emerging and developing economies, as well as public sector leaders, donor agency executives, civil society organization representatives, and staff from international development agencies who are actively interested and engaged in involving the private sector in meeting development goals. Please note that to ensure a high degree of interaction and knowledge sharing, participation will be limited, and so early applications are encouraged. To maximize the impact of the program at the corporate level, companies are encouraged to send two representatives who will work together on the group project and in reporting back to the company.
Partners
The Program partners include the Carol and Lawrence Zicklin Center at the Wharton School of Business, the Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative at Harvard’s Kennedy School, InWEnt Capacity Building International, the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), the Center for International Enterprise (CIPE) and PricewaterhouseCoopers.
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