Tara Schoenborn

March 2020 When Alfredo Montoya founded Colaborativo in 2012 as an accelerator for enterprises, he didn’t know his work would evolve to mentoring entrepreneurs and investors.  Knowing that he wanted to work with entrepreneurs, Montoya started the accelerator as a way to support early-stage startups that were trying to use business as a force for […]

In 2019, CASE at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and the United States Agency of International Development’s (USAID) Global Development Lab Center for Applied Innovation and Acceleration selected eight social enterprises from USAID’s Development Innovation Ventures Portfolio to participate in the Growth Readiness Assessment and Coaching Project (GRA). Launched with the goal of identifying […]

February 2020 “Strap in your seat belts, it is going to be a busy decade for impact and all of you have a role to play,” said Freya Williams, CEO of Futerra North America, as she opened the fifteenth annual Sustainable Business and Social Impact 2020 (SBSI 2020) Conference at Duke University’s Fuqua School of […]

February 2020 McKinsey, Deloitte, Goldman Sachs – these are just a few of the companies that come to mind as those that typically look for MBA interns each summer. However, here at the CASE at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, we believe that MBA candidates should also consider, and be considered for, internships in […]

February 2020 On February 10, 2020 Kevin Washington, the President and CEO of YMCA-USA, and Jim Clark, the President and CEO of the Boys and Girls Clubs of America, participated in the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) Executive Speaker Series at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business to kick off Fuqua Impact […]

February 2020 When Ommeed Sathe, Vice President of Impact Investments at Prudential Financial, joined the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business on January 28 as part of the CASE Executive Speaker Series, the last thing anyone in the room of nearly 100 people expected was for […]

February 2020 If Tim Scales, a 2017 Duke University Fuqua School of Business alum and former CASE Fellow, could give one piece of advice to aspiring social impact leaders, he would tell them that they should start a social enterprise. This is because, while at Fuqua, Scales had the opportunity to start CivicRise, a mobile […]

January 2020 On a sweltering hot southern day in October 2019, Nathan Hixson, a CASE Scholar and first-year Daytime MBA student at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, attended his first impact investing class. Having a professional background in impact investing prior to attending Fuqua, he found himself wondering how the class would approach the […]

December 2019 Good. Black. Food. Those are the three words Piri, a family owned and operated food business in East Durham, uses to describe the southern and Afro diasporic fusion of its menu that includes foods such as spicy lentils, crispy fried chicken and savory mashed potatoes. Taking joy in the fact that each dish […]

December 2019 For Fuqua School of Business Daytime MBA student and 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 young men celebrating their graduation […]