CASE seems to be popping up all over these days. A couple of recent highlights:
Fuqua Profiled in “Social Entrepreneurship: The Best Schools & Programs”:
Poets and Quants just came out with a top 10 ranking of Social Entrepreneurship programs and Fuqua is included! The article by John Byrne points out that interest in social entrepreneurship is exploding as “greater numbers of young people dedicate themselves to social enterprise, and more and more business schools are getting into the act.” In Fuqua’s profile, Byrne writes:
“The core of Duke’s activity in this field is its Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship headed by its co-founder Greg Dees, a professor who has been dubbed “The Father of Social Entrepreneurship as an academic subject.” In a recent interview, Dees said that “Social entrepreneurs are more likely to be effective when armed with the best knowledge that can be gained from prior messy experiments. That’s a large part of what we do when we teach. We’re not teaching them to have the personal characteristics required to be a successful social entrepreneur any more than a music teacher teaches the personal characteristics to be a gifted musician. However, good teachers do more than teach. They also coax, encourage, inspire, reward, and model the kinds of characteristics associated with success. Though we don’t teach courage, for instance, we can inspire potential social entrepreneurs to act with courage by exposing them to people like themselves who have started social ventures. A teacher can draw out the potential of a student to be a social entrepreneur and most human beings have that potential if they want to exercise it.’”
Fuqua Profiled in Net Impact’s “Business as UNusual”:
Fu
qua was also profiled in Net Impact’s 2011 edition of Business as UNusual: The Student Guide to Graduate Programs (see page 71 for our profile). Business as UNusual profiles MBA programs’ commitment to social and environmental themes in coursework, extracurricular activities, career services, and more. The 2011 edition profiles 106 schools from around the world, and more than 2,500 students contributed their opinions.
The profile highlights the work of CASE and our colleagues at EDGE (the Center for Energy, Development, and the Global Environment), as well as our student-run Net Impact Club. Fuqua’s Net Impact Club was rated as one of the most active in the Net Impact network—this is illustrated by Fuqua’s Gold Chapter status, as well its membership of 450+ students, making it the largest club at Fuqua. When asked to describe their chapter in three words, our students’ response was: “Committed, Passionate, Transformative”. So glad that we can help attract the type of students to Fuqua that can describe themselves in those words!
Still want to read more?:
US News & World Report’s “Social Entrepreneurship and The MBA” mentions CASE and Fuqua.
CASE (Matt Nash, CASE’s Executive Director and Tony Wang, a joint MBA/JD student at Duke) joined in an online debate about whether there is a need for the term “social entrepreneurship?” The blog’s author argues no – we say yes!