Best Practices from Microfinance at Skoll World Forum

This post was written by MBA student and CASE and CASE i3 Fellow Grace Webster in April 2014. The Skoll World Forum brings together the brightest minds leading the way for social entrepreneurship, impact investing, sustainability, and much more.  This year’s Forum highlighted ambitious, audacious innovators for good like Malala Yousafzai, Slum Dwellers International, Tony […]

Best Practices in Impact Investing Emerge at Skoll World Forum

This post was written in April 2013 by Greg Payne, a second year Duke MBA student as well as a CASE and CASE i3 Fellow. The overcast sky and 45’F weather in Oxford could not dim the excitement and anticipation of the Impact Investor project’s convening. Held on Wednesday, April 10, 2013, directly prior to the […]

“Building a Field That Has Really Been More of a Yard”: The Impact Investor at Oxford

This post was written in March 2012 by Mailande Moran, a first year Duke MBA and a student fellow with CASE i3.  On Wednesday, the CASE i3 Initiative on Impact Investing co-hosted a meeting of roughly 80 leading investors, entrepreneurs, academics and intermediaries from the global impact investing community in Oxford, before the start of the Skoll […]

The Impact Investing Wave

April 2011, Cathy Clark I attended the Skoll World Forum last week and had a realization. Yes, social entrepreneurs are working constantly to refine their business models, but right now, many are worried about very specific business model challenges. Forming a social business. Creating business models that produce profit. Setting up a for-profit. Considering impact investment. I […]