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Three Stories about the Owen School’s Positive Social Impact around the Globe

From the Spring 2011 edition of Vanderbilt Business

By Nancy Wise | Business and Society, Departments

After many hours of travel down a long dirt road, Paul Dent, MBA’10, arrived at a secluded ranch scattered with rustic, wooden outbuildings. It may sound like the beginnings of a Western novel, but the setting, in fact, was one of the poorest regions of Cambodia.

Flour Power

From the Fall 2010 edition of Vanderbilt Business

By Nancy Wise | Business and Society, Features

Some of the grandmothers—only in their 50s, but aged by the hardships of living in one of the world’s poorest places—liked the porridge so much that they started dancing, hopping on one foot and then the other, grinning toothless smiles and kicking dust onto their colorful skirts.