Author Archives: Moledina

Conscience and Character … in Progress

After a successful year under the theme of Activism for Inclusion, the Center has launched this year’s activities under the theme: Conscience and Character. This theme is a response to campus/community challenges around the issue of race, gender, rel… Continue reading

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Sarah and Kipaya make “volunteer of the month”!

Sarah Abboud and Kipaya Kapiga both returned from India after working with Dream a Dream. Kipaya is busy with a new project, the Woostonian, and Sarah is back to playing basketball and working on her IS. Here is a neat … Continue reading → Continue reading

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Change management versus change leadership

These terms are often confused in regular use. In reality they are quite different. That is why, when I saw this clip by John Kotter explaining the difference, I thought I would share. Watch “The Difference Between Change Management and … C… Continue reading

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Anna Hazare and Corruption in India

By Kipaya Kapiga Corruption is not a new force in the Indian political landscape, but the current public outcries are very strong. During the two months, it was rare to not catch glimpse of an anti-corruption themed headline. The detrimental … Co… Continue reading

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Maintaining integrity: Should “social” enterprises pay less than market wage?

By Kipaya Kapiga This is part two of two-part blog post. It can be difficult for social ventures to maintain as sense of integrity when it comes to compensation. As is the case with American non profits, there is a … Continue reading → Continue reading

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Billionaires and responsibility for Organizational Development

As anyone who is travelled to India knows, this is a country of contrasts – of spectacular riches and spectacular poverty. This is the country that has built the Taj Mahal, the Mysore Palace, and some of the most luxiorious … Continue readi… Continue reading

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What the SE Experience meant for me

By Usman Gul Sometime during my sophomore year at Wooster, I began to weigh my options about the many different paths in life that I could adopt after graduation.  Public policy, urban planning, behavioral economics and econometrics all seemed to &#82… Continue reading

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Peri-Urban Farming: A visit to Magadi

By Erika Takeo The Saturday before I left India I had the opportunity to visit Magadi, a peri-urban town located about 45 kilometers outside of Bangalore. Magadi is home to one of the Resource Centre on Urban Agriculture and Food … Continue readi… Continue reading

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SVYM Sanitation initiative influences a start-up

Cathy is visiting India to visit organizational partners for the Lilly project. We are also exploring ways in which Global SE and the Lilly fellowship can become more synergistic. Here, Cathy describes her thoughts on a recent trip, mirroring in &#8230… Continue reading

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Intercultural Communication and Social Entrepreneurship

By Sarah Abboud When you hear the term intercultural communication, you may immediately think of communication that takes place between people of different cultures in the geographic sense. I have been participating in intercultural communication ever … Continue reading

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