Author Archives: Matt Hendren

This post was written by Matt Hendren, a first year Duke MBA student and Associate in the CASE Initiative on Impact Investing (CASE i3) program. We welcomed Mike Dorsey, CASE i3 Advisory Board member, to Fuqua in November as part …

Congratulations to CASE i3 Director Cathy Clark for being named in Michael Chatman’s list of America’s Top 20 Women in Philanthropy, Social Innovation & Civic Engagement for 2014!  Cathy was chosen from over 400 nominees for her work in social entrepreneurship and …

It’s that time of the year when emails are flooding in with subject lines of “Thanks for a Great Year” and “Recapping 2014.”  The New Year is certainly a time for reflection and celebration so we thought we’d share our …

This review was written by Jem Hudson, founder of the Caldy Group. To read the original post and other insights, subscribe to the Caldy Group blog here. “The stakes are high. If impact investing spurs the socialization and growth in Collaborative …

This post was written by Justin Kersey, a second year Duke MBA student. Justin has just launched a new venture, Cake: a cause marketing and advertising platform where businesses can support good causes and nonprofits can raise money online.  When …

Beth Bafford (MBA ’12) serves as the Senior Officer of Strategic Initiatives at the Calvert Foundation, a social impact debt fund that provides innovative financial products to increase capital access to underserved communities. While at Fuqua, Beth was actively involved with …

Recently, CASE – along with partners from SEAD, Duke I&E, DGHI, IPIHD, DIHI, & Sanford – launched a challenge to bring together interdisciplinary teams of students and expert judges around a critical real world problem: Ebola. 2014 has brought on the largest …

This post was written by second year MBA student Tim Morilla. During this summer Tim interned at salaUno, an eye care clinic in Mexico that seeks to offer high quality eye care service at affordable prices. Tim’s internship was supported …

This post was written by second year MBA students Laura Mixter and Ashley McPhail. During this summer, both Laura and Ashley interned at Self-Help in Durham, NC. Their internships were supported by CASE’s Summer Internship Fund (learn more about SIF at the bottom on this post!) …

Hot off the press! We’re excited to announce the launch of: The Impact Investor: Lessons in Leadership and Strategy for Collaborative Capitalism, co-authored by CASE i3 Director Cathy Clark, Jed Emerson, and Ben Thornley. The Impact Investor is born out of …