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MIT professor and Committed to Caring honoree Esther Duflo encourages her students to tackle ambitious projects with far-reaching social and societal implications. Her flexible mentorship approach enables students to get the most of their advising relationship.

Route signs waiting to be placed on a vehicle in Kampala Old Taxi Park. Photo by Tamara Kerzhner In 2015, the chairman of a Kampala administrative zone about 10 kilometers (6 miles) from the city’s downtown addressed a hand-written note to the chairman of a minibus taxi association. He humbly requested the group of drivers…