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Can Management Consulting Help Small Firms Grow?

Economic development efforts are best served by testing and refining assumptions about what works.

By Annie Duflo & Dean Karlan | Summer 2012
 

Lifetime Inequality

The variation in lifetime earnings and wealth is largely determined by skills acquired by age 23.

By Corinna Wu | Summer 2012
 
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Focused Cardiac Care

What happens when hospitals specialize?

By Corinna Wu | Summer 2012
 
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Civic Education Through Social Networks

In Kenya, civic education programs reached 4.5 million people in advance of the 2002 election.

By Roberta Kwok | Summer 2012
 
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Conformists Boost Creativity

The ideal team needs both creatives and conformists.

By Jessica Ruvinsky | Spring 2012
 
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Chinese Community Development

Government authorities are experimenting to build citizen trust.

By Jessica Ruvinsky | Spring 2012
 

Golfing Alone

Corporate donors prefer the opera to the soup kitchen.

By Jessica Ruvinsky | Spring 2012
 

Lone Wolves vs. Teams

Civic associations should focus on policy goals and leadership.

By Jessica Ruvinsky | Spring 2012
 
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Trees Fight Crime

A Philadelphia study connects green spaces to neighborhood safety.

By Jessica Ruvinsky | Spring 2012
 

Cents and Sensibility

Environmental accidents force putting a price on nature.

By Jessica Ruvinsky | Spring 2012
 

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