Elizabeth Transier remembers arriving in Mumbai, India, and being swept up in “a tidal wave of sights, sounds, and experiences.” She saw cows wandering in the streets, right alongside auto-rickshaws, cars, and throngs of people. “There’s this vibrancy that is incredible,” she says. Transier wasn’t on vacation. She was on assignment with the Corporate Service Corps (CSC), a program in which teams of volunteers from IBM Corp. travel around the world to work with nonprofit and…

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