SBSI 2015: A Decade of Ideas, A Lifetime of Action

This post was written by Mary O’Donnell, Duke MBA student and a CASE Fellow, in March 2015. Mary, along with fellow Duke MBA student Blaise Cote, was the co-director of the 2015 Sustainable Business and Social Impact conference. As a MBA student at Fuqua, I am empowered every time I hear Fuqua Dean Boulding state […]

Lessons from Michael Brown, CEO of City Year

This post was written by Diana Vining, Duke MBA student and CASE Scholar, in March 2015. Diana reflects on the recent visit from Michael Brown, co-founder and CEO of City Year. Want to hear more from Michael Brown? Check out our CASE Chat with him here. Throughout the course of our lives we will each come […]

John Goldstein of Imprint Capital: Helping Impact Investors Help Themselves

This post was written by Duke MBA student Grace Webster in June 2014.  She reflects on a visit from guest speaker John Goldstein, cofounder of Imprint Capital. Watch our CASE Chat with John Goldstein here. A recent White House gathering of up and coming young philanthropists noted the increasing interest in impact investing as an […]

2014 CASE Award Goes to Living Goods

March 2014 CASE is excited to announce the 2014 winner of the CASE Award for Enterprising Social Innovation (ESI), Living Goods! Living Goods is a fantastic social venture that empowers the poor through networks of ‘Avon-like’ micro-entrepreneurs who go door-to-door teaching families how to improve their health and wealth while selling a broad assortment of […]

Opening the Curtain on the New 2.0 Era of Impact Investing

This article by Cathy Clark and Ben Thornley was originally published on the Huffington Post in November 2013. Impact investing has not been growing as quickly as many practitioners might have hoped. Knowledge of what does and does not work in impact investing remains closely held. And because impact investing is unconventional (blending capital market […]

Getting into the Muck: Day in Durham 2013

This post was written in August 2013 by Diana Vining and Cristina Arellano, both first year Duke MBA students. Diana and Cristina reflect on the 10th annual Day in Durham – where more than 1500 Fuqua first years have explored the Durham community and been inspired to use their business skills for social impact. How […]

Motorcycles, Africa, and Healthcare

This post was written by Nicole Hawkins, a rising second year student at Fuqua and a CASE Fellow in May 2013. What do motorcycles, Africa and healthcare have in common?  The 2013 CASE Enterprising Social Innovation (ESI) Award winners, Riders for Health! Riders is a non-profit organization that manages and maintains motorcycles and vehicles for health-focused […]

Education, Global Health & Community Development at SBSI 2013

This post was written in April 2013 by Maddy Devine, a first year student at Fuqua and one of the track managers for the 2013 SBSI conference. As one of the track managers of the Net Impact Club’s Sustainable Business & Social Impact conference, I had been tasked with pulling together three panels that encompassed […]

Capital + Ideas + People + Timing = Social Change

Professor Cathy Clark gave this TED-style talk as part of CASE’s 10th anniversary celebration in December 2012. How do social entrepreneurship and impact investing interrelate?  And what does that have to do with Sesame Street? At CASE’s 10 Year Anniversary Celebration, Professor Cathy Clark used the example of Sesame Street to articulate a formula for […]

Universities Driving Global Change

June 2011 In February, Duke and Ashoka U hosted a national conference on social entrepreneurship education. It was a wonderful weekend with over 300 participants representing 70 universities and 10 countries. Included in the weekend’s activities was a TEDx event that was open to the public. The theme was “Universities Driving Global Change” and the […]