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Nov 2023
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"Big Bets: How Large-Scale Change Really...

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Today, Rajiv Shah, president of the Rockefeller Foundation and former administrator of President Barack Obama’s United States Agency for International Development, shares his audacious strategy for achieving transformational change. 
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