The CASE and CASE i3 Fellowship Programs: A Community Like No Other

If Hannah Ford, Duke MBA class of 2018, had to describe the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) Fellowship program in one word, she would say it is community. In fact, from building skills in fellow-led design thinking workshops at Fuqua to participating in a virtual book club with her cohort years after […]

Welcome 2020-2021 CASE & CASE i3 Fellows

2020-2021 Fellows

Each year, CASE selects an elite group of second-year Fuqua MBAs to become CASE and/or CASE i3 fellows and act as ambassadors for CASE’s work in social entrepreneurship and impact investing. These fellows come from a wide range of backgrounds and work with the CASE team to lead workshops and speaker sessions, as well as […]

2019 Summer Internship Fund Recipients Feel Lasting Impact of Their Work

For Fuqua School of Business Daytime MBA student and Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) Fellow Sarah Burns, 20 short minutes spent in a gym on a Friday night proved to be one of the most deeply impactful parts her summer. That evening, she got the chance to attend a ceremony for six […]

A Year of Learning and New Projects

End of Year Blog

It never ceases to amaze us how fast a year goes by. In early May, we watched as another cohort of CASE and CASE i3 fellows graduated along with hundreds of new MBAs.  This annual event always triggers CASE’s “end of year” (the academic year, that is) reflection. For us, this has been a year […]

Welcome 2019-2020 CASE & CASE i3 Fellows!

CASE and CASE i3 Fellows

Each year, CASE and CASE i3 select an elite group of second-year MBAs to act as ambassadors of CASE’s work and collaborate with the CASE team throughout the year. These fellows come from a wide range of backgrounds and engage in CASE programming by providing great insights and by leading workshops, speaker sessions, and other […]

CASE’s Year in Impact 2017-2018

CASE's year in impact

It’s June, another school year has gone by and another group of CASE and CASE i3 Fellows have graduated. We had another exciting year of impact at CASE. Here are some of the numbers from 2017-2018. If you are interested in learning more about our 2017-2018 year you can read CASE Executive Director, Erin Worsham’s […]

Another Year of Driving Social Change: What Would Greg Think?

Every summer, as another academic year comes to a close and the echoes of graduation begin to fade away, I take some time to reflect on the year. This year that reflection has been particularly bittersweet as CASE celebrates our 15th anniversary. To think that 15 years ago, our co-founders, Greg Dees and Beth Anderson, […]

How Do We Erase the Lines of Divide?

Aaron Walker at Fuqua

This post was written by Kylie Johnston, CASE Fellow, Co-President of the Net Impact Club, and Candidate for MBA, Class of 2017. Want to learn about the next CASE Executive Speaker event? Sign up for the CASE Newsletter! I am an Australian from a middle-income nuclear family of six. I went to a good Australian public […]

Launching Ideas: The Inaugural Social Impact Startup Weekend

Social Impact Startup Weekend

This post was written by Samantha Dina, CASE Fellow and Co-President of the Fuqua Net Impact Club. This post was originally posted on the Duke Daytime MBA Student Blog. When I walked into Duke’s innovation center, “The Bullpen,” to participate in the Fuqua Net Impact club’s inaugural Social Impact Startup Weekend, I had no idea what to […]

2017 Launch Pad Award

Fuqua MBA Tim Scales wants you to be more politically engaged with new app Can a smartphone app increase civic engagement? Fuqua MBA and CASE Fellow Tim Scales aims to find out with his startup CivicRise. Since 2012, CASE awards one Fuqua MBA student with a budding social venture the CASE Launch Pad award. The […]