Lessons Learned in Impact: 2022 Summer Internship Fund Recipients

Summer internships are a valuable time for MBAs to explore and validate their interests. The Fuqua Summer Internship Fund (SIF) enables students to learn about the rewards and challenges of social impact management without making a significant financial sacrifice – and enables organizations who otherwise could not afford MBA interns to benefit from their experience. We asked […]

Discovery, Validation, & Inspiration: The 2021 Summer Internship Fund Recipients

MBA summer internships are a time of great discovery, validation, and inspiration – and the Fuqua Summer Internship Fund (SIF) enables students to learn about the rewards and challenges of social sector management without making a significant financial sacrifice.  (Related, SIF also enables organizations who otherwise could not afford MBA interns to benefit from their […]

Seven Pieces of Advice from MBA Summer Interns Working in Impact

The Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) supports the Fuqua Summer Internship Fund (SIF), which enables students to learn about the rewards and challenges of social sector management without making a significant financial sacrifice, while simultaneously enabling organizations who otherwise could not afford MBA interns to benefit from their experience. This year, we […]

Everything Impact Enterprises Need to Know About Hiring an MBA Intern

McKinsey, Deloitte, Goldman Sachs – these are just a few of the companies that come to mind as those that typically look for MBA interns each summer. However, here at the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, we believe that MBA candidates should also consider, and […]

2019 Summer Internship Fund Recipients Feel Lasting Impact of Their Work

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 parts her summer. That evening, she got the chance to attend a ceremony for six […]

Seeing Just How Far an MBA Education Can Take You: My Summer in Social Impact

This post is written by Jehan El-Gabri, a second-year Duke Fuqua MBA candidate with a focus on finance and social entrepreneurship. Prior to Fuqua, she worked in education and as a federal policy consultant. At Fuqua, she is a COLE Leadership Fellow and co-president of Fuqua2Duke. This past summer, she interned with the social impact […]

Universal Health Coverage: How Rwanda is moving forward with healthcare for all

This post was written by Emily Mason, a second-year Fuqua MBA. Emily is pursuing an MBA at Fuqua and comes to the program with global health, private sector, and government experience. Prior to Duke, Emily worked within the Center for Accelerating Innovation and Impact at USAID and worked in Global Collateral Services Marketing and Alternative […]

3 Lessons The Hill Center Taught Me About Social Impact Careers

The Hill Center Durham NC

This post was written by Nicole Page, a second-year Fuqua MBA. She has a background in consulting but is excited and passionate about growing her career in the education space. Nicole sits on the cabinet of the Association of Women in Business on the Leadership team, on the cabinet of the Net Impact Club on […]

What the National Park Service Taught Me About Leadership

Cooks Lake Paddling Trail

This post was written by Libby Rybacki, Fuqua MBA 2017. Libby arrived at the Fuqua School of Business after spending nine years serving in the United States Army where she led an airborne engineer platoon and supported numerous contingency operations across the Middle East and North Africa.  Her experiences have fostered a passion for leveraging social change […]

Using My Fuqua Skills in the Social Impact Space with Reinvestment Fund

This post was written by Seth Brown, a third year dual Masters of Public Policy and Masters of Business Administration (MPP/MBA) candidate at Duke’s Sanford School of Public Policy and the Fuqua School of Business. Prior to graduate school, Seth served 5 years as an Army officer. At Duke he has led Duke’s Veteran’s organization […]