Ten years ago, after one particularly long day at her former volunteer job in a nonprofit microfinance program, Josefina Van Thienen, a class of 2020 MBA student at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, ran into a man whom she …
If Tim Scales, a 2017 Duke University Fuqua School of Business alum and former Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) Fellow, could give one piece of advice to aspiring social impact leaders, he would tell them that they …
The Sustainable Business & Social Impact (SBSI) conference is hosted by the Net Impact Club at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. It is the largest event of its kind in the Southeast and the largest student-led conference at Fuqua. …
On a sweltering hot southern day in October 2019, Nathan Hixson, a Center for the Advancement for Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) Scholar and first-year Daytime MBA student at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, attended his first impact investing class. Having …
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 …
As Fuqua School of Business Daytime MBA student and Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) Fellow and Launch Pad Winner Michelle Egger reflected on her summer 2019 internship at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, she realized that …
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 …
For the past 25 years, CASE Advisory Board Member and CEO and co-founder of The Redwoods Group, Kevin Trapani, has had a consistent career goal: to be regarded as the worst CEO in his company’s history. To many, this career …
Utkarsha Bhardwaj Since childhood, I have been most passionate about exploring and solving the multi-faceted problems encountered by millions in a developing country like India. This is because I have always been around inspiring people who work together to address …
Patrick Pierson-Prah I co-founded two related companies with the mission to more meaningfully improve the lives of others and to provide people with increased economic empowerment. The first company, Procap Investments, which is an investment management firm, focuses on raising …
