Seth Brown

This post was written by Seth Brown, a third year dual Masters of Public Policy and Masters of Business Administration (MPP/MBA) candidate at Duke’s Sanford School of Public Policy and the Fuqua School of Business, in November 2016. Prior to graduate school, Seth served 5 years as an Army officer. At Duke he has led […]

This post was written by Sidney McLaurin, Jr., a CASE i3 Fellow and Co-Chair, in November 2016. Sidney attended SOCAP, the annual conference in San Francisco that brings together impact investors, social entrepreneurs, foundations, corporations, global nonprofits, and others contributing to a vibrant marketplace for socially, environmentally and economically sustainable solutions. For more information about SOCAP, visit their […]

This post was written by Tim Scales, a second-year MBA candidate with a focus on social impact and entrepreneurship, in October 2016. Prior to Fuqua, he worked in support of the nonprofit arts and culture sector in New York, Massachusetts and North Carolina as a producer, marketer and consultant. At Fuqua, he is a CASE […]

This post was written by Zen Dedekind, CASE i3 Fellow and Co-Chair, in October 2016. Zen attended SOCAP, the annual conference in San Francisco that brings together impact investors, social entrepreneurs, foundations, corporations, global nonprofits, and others contributing to a vibrant marketplace for socially, environmentally and economically sustainable solutions. For more information about SOCAP, visit their website. Impact […]

Javier Cortez, Daytime MBA 2017, wrote this post in October 2016. Javier joined Fuqua from Peru where he was born and raised. He is interested in leveraging his financial skills in the social impact investing sector. Before Duke, he worked in a private equity company before doing corporate finance in the leading movie theater chain […]

This post was written by CASE Executive-in-Residence and Sproxil Co-Founder Alden Zecha in October 2016. He has over 25 years of experience in more than 35 countries and has founded several companies, including SEAD Innovator Sproxil, Inc., a social venture that provides a consumer SMS and app product verification service to help consumers avoid purchasing counterfeit […]

On September 22, 2016 CASE Advisory Council member and Global Fund for Children founder Maya Ajmera joined us for the CASE Executive Speaker Series: A Lens on Social Impact. The event was co-sponsored by CASE, the Duke Center for International Development, and the Duke Innovation & Entrepreneurship Initiative. More than 2 billion children worldwide are […]

This post was written by Robyn Fehrman, Managing Director of CASE, in September 2016. Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to attend SOCAP16 for the first time. With the tagline “A Conference at the Intersection of Money + Meaning,” this annual convening of global innovators, investors, foundations, governments, institutions, and social entrepreneurs deeply intrigued […]

September 2016 This month’s CASE Chat features Leigh Morgan, COO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and member of the CASE Advisory Council.  In this CASE Chat, Leigh discusses the trends she sees in the social impact space, including the importance of tri-sector leadership. On training future leaders in social impact… “Building the capacity […]

September 2016, Cathy Clark, Faculty Director of CASE I got the call from the White House, in May 2014. “We’re going to have some major new commitments of impact investment capital at the meeting in June. Would you be interested in helping us track how the money is spent?” What do you say to a […]