CASE speaker series

On May 5, Rodney Foxworth, CEO of Common Future closed out the 2020-2021 Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) Executive Speaker Series with a call to action: “In his famous quote, Dr. King tells us that the arc of the moral universe bends toward justice – but we have to realize that the […]

March 2021 On March 10, Safeena Husain, Founder & Executive Director of Educate Girls shared powerful scaling lessons as part of the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business’s  Executive Speaker Series. Based on her own story rooted in childhood poverty and dropping out of school, Husain […]

January 2021 On January 13, 2021 Stephen DeBerry, Founder and Managing Partner of Bronze Investments, led a joy-filled, virtual conversation on converting disparity into opportunity with the CASE i3 Initiative on Impact Investing at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business during the first CASE Executive Speaker Series of 2021. “Our work at Bronze Investments is […]

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 […]

This post was written by Anna Moran, Duke Daytime MBA student. Before coming to Fuqua, Anna worked with the Center for Global Development in Washington DC as an Institutional Advancement Officer, managing relationships with Fortune 500 companies around their corporate social responsibility efforts. Anna grew up in the Philippines and Thailand, and remains passionate about […]

This post was written by Zen Dedekind, CASE i3 Fellow and Co-Chair, in December 2016. Debra Schwartz, Managing Director of MacArthur Foundation, came to the Fuqua School of Business as part of the CASE Executive Speaker Series. Impact Investing is an evolving industry, considered by some to be new and by others to be older, but better defined […]

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 […]

November 2015 Meet Rokia. A little girl in Mali, Rokia’s family is extremely poor and often goes without food. Her family has difficulty affording basic needs such as healthcare and education. Rokia isn’t real but the impact of her story is. In 2004, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University conducted a study to see what sorts […]