social entrepreneurship
Day in Durham: Step One Towards Impactful Stewardship
This post was written by Chris Castro, Fuqua MBA 2017 and a CASE Scholar, in September 2015. After graduating from Loyola Marymount University, Chris was a 5th and 6th grade teacher in Honduras for the nonprofit organization The Farm of the Child. He spent five years working with City Year before becoming to Fuqua. Although […]
Vaatsalya & Sevamob: The “Food Truck” Approach to Scaling Up Health
September 2015 The 7,000 miles between Clover, a bustling, chain of healthy fast food restaurants in Boston, and Vaatsalya Heathcare Solutions, a chain of hospitals serving patients in semi-rural cities in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh, might seem too great a distance for innovation to percolate. But when Dr. Ashwin Naik, who co-founded Vaatsalya in 2005, heard best-selling […]
Bringing Clarity to the Cornea Donation Process with Change Academy
July 2015 Imagine a goal that seems insurmountable. Perhaps clearing out your garage of everything piled inside so that your car will fit inside. Now amplify the scale of that goal to the size of a complex, international social venture. How would you begin to achieve a goal that seems impossible in the big picture? […]
Working with Enclude to Strengthen Financial Services for Women
This post was written by Evelyn Powery, a 2015 graduate of the Duke MBA program, in June 2015. While at Fuqua, Evelyn served as student co-chair for CASE i3 and as a CASE fellow. The CASE i3 Fellowship allows practitioners to engage MBA students on real-world challenges related to the diverse field of impact investing. […]
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 […]
Never Forget: The Power of a Small Group
September 2014, Erin Worsham Though I now call North Carolina my home, I am a New Yorker. Born and bred and proud to be a NYer. So, September 11th always brings back a rush of memories of that horrible morning where hatred and helplessness prevailed. This morning was especially poignant – reading the #NeverForget, #Honor911 and […]
Pitching Investors in Global Health: Funding Lessons From Social Entrepreneurs
This article by Cathy Clark and Lila Cruikshank was originally posted on the Huffington Post Blog in March 2014. Over the past decade, business models serving the base of the pyramid (BOP) customers have attracted increased attention. At the same time, major development agencies and foundations have identified the public health segments of the Millennium […]
Seeding Social Entrepreneurs: AgImpact Fund Readies for Investment
This post was written in July 2013 by Jack Beuttell, a joint MBA/MEM student who will graduate from Duke in 2014, and David Nicola, who recently graduated with his MBA from Fuqua. Jack and David were the inaugural winners of the CASE Seed Prize, which allowed them to pursue their social venture, AgImpact Fund, during the […]
Client Consulting in Africa to Make an Impact
This post was written in July 2013 by Meiqing Fan. Meiqing just finished her first year at Fuqua and participated in a social entrepreneurship project through the Fuqua Client Consulting Practicum (FCCP). During spring break, I spent 2 weeks in South Africa with 38 classmates. Our trip was part of the Fuqua Client Consulting Practicum, which is […]
“Be A Social Entrepreneur” with Greg Dees
This post originally appeared on Southern New Hampshire University’s Be a Social Entrepreneur blog in April 2013. J. Gregory Dees has been the recipient of the Ashoka and Aspen Institute Lifetime Achievement Award in Social Entrepreneurship and continues to share his knowledge in the classroom and the world. How did you get started in social entrepreneurship?I was drawn […]