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01 Jun 2008
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Kash Rangan

Rangan Illustration by Randy Glass Professor Kash Rangan is one of the pioneers of the School’s Social Enterprise Initiative, now fifteen years old. Back in 1993, most people took a “spray and pray” approach to philanthropy — writing... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

01 Jun 2009
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Dispatches from the Global Classroom

individual volunteers for a two- or three-year term to keep the whole community functioning smoothly. We also learn that the Zapotec sense of time comes from the sun, not a watch. It’s a difficult adjustment to make from our overscheduled... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Sep 2009
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Read All About It!

declined. As the twenty-first century unfolded, many families found themselves caught between the rock of expanded consumption and the hard place of seemingly static incomes. And to make matters thornier, the costs of some of the most... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Dec 2016
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Vive la Madeleine!

he should put a glass window between the production area and factory outlet store. Maybe the workers wouldn’t like being watched by customers while they worked. No, they said, it’s fine. We’re helping the clients, and we like looking at... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Natalya Balnova

14 Mar 2019
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The Merchant of Osaka

home-care medical team would be nearby. On a Monday afternoon draped in mid-October grays, Dr. Komei Umeda and a nurse make the 20-minute drive from the clinic in Tokyo’s western Setagaya ward. They walk up the stone path, under a... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

01 Sep 2017
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City of Dreams

everything from mangoes to light bulbs to plastic flowers. Just across the road is Fort Railway Station, a major transportation hub used by over 200,000 people every day. For now, this spot at the water’s edge is no more than an ad hoc parking lot, spotted with broken... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Alice Carfrae; Sri Lanka; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government

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