Idea Generation: How a business class is designing better futures for girls school 8,400 miles away

Where traditional humanitarian efforts might call for aid, students in Notre Dame management teaching professor Wendy Angst's Innovation and Design Thinking class envision sustainable, human-centered solutions that could bring about lasting change. And, thanks to an anonymous donor, they have the opportunity to apply their classroom learning to the problem and implement and test their ideas.

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