Author Archives: Julia Houlihan

This post was written by second year Duke MBA, Julia Houlihan.  Julia’s post originally appeared on Fuqua’s “Daytime MBA Student Blog” which has lots of great posts about the Daytime MBA experience from the student perspective. In the past few …

As part of Stanford’s “Social Entrepreneur Building Block Series,” Professor Dees recently gave advice to budding student social entrepreneurs.  He discussed the variety of ways to define social entrepreneurship, the core of which is finding innovative solutions to social problems, …

Professor Cathy Clark gave this TED-style talk as part of CASE’s 10th anniversary celebration in December 2012.  To read more posts on CASE’s anniversary celebration, click here! How do social entrepreneurship and impact investing interrelate?  And what does that have …

What would happen if we put the energy, creativity, and intelligence of Duke MBA students towards solving some of the world’s most pressing problems? What ideas would they come up with and what impact could they have? In order to …

Dr. Krishna Udayakumar gave this TED-style talk as part of CASE’s 10th anniversary celebration in December 2012.  To read more posts on CASE’s anniversary celebration, click here! “If you are born in some places in sub-saharan Africa, you can expect …

Professor Greg Dees gave this TED-style talk as part of CASE’s 10th anniversary celebration in December 2012.  To read more posts on CASE’s anniversary celebration, click here! Why should we care about social entrepreneurship? Why does it matter? According to CASE …

Rachel Lichte is a current student at Duke, pursuing her joint MBA/MEM (Master of Environmental Management) degree. She gave this TED-style talk as part of CASE’s 10th anniversary celebration in December 2012. To read more posts on CASE’s anniversary celebration, …

10 years. Time sure does fly! Our CASE team still cannot believe that it has been 10 years of social impact and innovation here at Duke! So many great memories and we really enjoyed celebrating them all at our 10 …

Each year, Fuqua’s (award-winning!) Net Impact Club hosts the incredible Duke Conference on Sustainable Business and Social Impact (SBSI).  It is truly an event not to be missed, and you are invited to join us on Wednesday, February 20th! SBSI aims …

Professor Cathy Clark explains impact investing in a Fuqua Q and A, originally posted here. “Impact investing” – chances are it’s a term you have heard recently. What exactly is impact investing and how does is work? Fuqua’s Center for the Advancement …