Author Archives: Erin Worsham

The Impact Investor at SOCAP12

This post was originally published on the PCV blog. It was posted by Sarah Ritter, Program Coordinator of Insight at Pacific Community Ventures, with recaps provided by InSight’s Associate Director Colby Dailey. This week at SOCAP12 InSight, CASE at Duke …

The Impact of Impatient Optimism

This post was written 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 …

Global leaders start at home

This post was written by second year student, Mark Hiew. Mark and fellow second year, Dawn Arthur, were the leads for the 9th annual Day in Durham, an annual event that introduces incoming Fuqua students to the social entrepreneurship community …

Six Dynamics Describe How Impact Investing is Unique

As dozens of new impact investing funds are created explicitly to tackle the world’s most intractable social and environmental problems, including over 60 globally in 2011, best practices that lead to impact investing performance are more needed than ever. A new …

Education Reform for the Summer

This post was written by second year, Ambika Ahuja.  Ambika interned this summer with the Houston Independent School District through an Education Pioneers fellowship.  Ambika’s internship was supported by CASE’s Summer Internship Fund (learn more about SIF at the bottom …

From Fuqua to Rwanda: Global Health in Action

This post was written by second year student, Liz Charles. Liz interned this summer with the International Partnership for Innovative Healthcare Delivery (IPIHD) with the support of CASE’s Summer Internship Fund (learn more about SIF at the bottom on this …

Learning to Lend with Social Impact

This post was written by second year student, Jacqueline Westley.  Jacqueline interned this summer at RSF Social Finance with the support of CASE’s Summer Internship Fund (learn more about SIF at the bottom on this post!). RSF is a non-profit …

I could not have hoped for anything better…

This post was written by second year student, Julia Houlihan.  Julia interned this summer at Teach for America through an Education Pioneers fellowship. Julia’s internship was made possible with the support of CASE’s Summer Internship Fund (learn more about SIF …

Harnessing the Power of Business to Do Good

This post was written by third year student, Carrie Gonnella.  Carrie is concurrently pursuing her MBA at Fuqua and her MEM (Master of Environmental Management) at Duke’s Nicholas School of the Environment.  Carrie interned this summer at B Lab with …

Is Your Social Venture Really Worth Scaling?

This article was originally published 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 …