social impact

This post was written by Emily Silman, Duke MBA student and a member of the Fuqua chapter of the Net Impact Club, in March 2015. Government and business: to many people, these two entities mix about as well as oil and water. So it may have seemed surprising to some that the closing keynote speaker at […]

This post by Erin Worsham, CASE Executive Director, originally appeared on The Huffington Post March 4, 2015. Our team at CASE has studied social entrepreneurship and scaling social impact for over a decade. During that time, one thing that has been clear is that organizations striving to achieve impact at scale are most successful when […]

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 […]

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 […]

This post was written in October 2012 by second year student, Carla Hickman. Carla spent her summer interning with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle, Washington. I have always worked in the education sector, and arriving at Fuqua, it was a passion and career path I knew I would continue to follow. During […]

This article was originally published in August 2012 on the Harvard Business Review blog and is being reprinted with their permission. The post is written by CASE professor Paul Bloom.  Paul’s new book, Scaling Your Social Venture: Becoming an Impact Entrepreneur, was just published by Palgrave Macmillan. Although scaling is the holy grail for most […]

This article was originally published in June 2012 on the Harvard Business Review blog and is being reprinted with their permission. The post is written by CASE professor Paul Bloom.  Paul’s new book, Scaling Your Social Venture: Becoming an Impact Entrepreneur, was just published by Palgrave Macmillan. For a social entrepreneur with an innovative solution, the holy grail […]

This post was written in March 2012 by Amy Snyder, a second year Duke MBA and CASE Fellow.  Amy reflects on a recent visit from Jorge Becerra, Senior Partner and Managing Director in BCG’s Santiago office.  Jorge is the regional leader of BCG’s Community and Economic Development work in the Americas and Head of BCG’s Financial Institutions and […]

This post was written in March 2012 by second year Duke MBA and CASE Fellow Beth Bafford.  Beth reflects on a recent visit from Laura Callanan, CASE Advisory Council member and keynote at this year’s Sustainable Business and Social Impact conference.  Laura works with the Social Sector Office at McKinsey & Co. We had the immense pleasure of hosting […]

This post was written in February 2012 by first year MBA student Ian Cain.  Ian reflects on a recent visit from Ron D. Cordes, co-chairman of Genworth Financial Wealth Management and founder of ImpactAssets.  It was in 2004, on his 45th birthday, when Ron D. Cordes decided that by the time he turned 50 he would be on a different […]