Author Archives: Erin Worsham

Leading a Unique Life: A Message to our Graduates

Another year, another set of bittersweet goodbyes as our graduates throw their caps and hold their diplomas in hand. We send them off in to a world full of challenges that are ever changing and growing in complexity. But also a …

Motorcycles, Africa and Healthcare

This post was written by Nicole Hawkins, a rising second year student at Fuqua and a CASE Fellow. What do motorcycles, Africa and healthcare have in common?  The 2013 CASE Enterprising Social Innovation (ESI) Award winners, Riders for Health! Riders is …

“Be A Social Entrepreneur” with Greg Dees

This post originally appeared on Southern New Hampshire University’s Be a Social Entrepreneur blog. To read the original post, click here. J. Gregory Dees has been the recipient of the Ashoka and Aspen Institute Lifetime Achievement Award in Social Entrepreneurship and continues to share …

Best Practices in Impact Investing Emerge at Oxford

This post was written by Greg Payne, a second year Duke MBA student as well as a CASE and CASE i3 Fellow. The overcast sky and 45’F weather in Oxford could not dim the excitement and anticipation of the Impact …

Reaching Beyond the Bottom Line at SBSI 2013

This post was written by Kirsten Hagfors, one of the SBSI 2013 conference co-directors. Kirsten will soon graduate from Duke with a joint MBA/MEM (Master of Environmental Management) degree. This past February the Duke MBA Net Impact Club held its …

Building the Impact Investing Space in Latin America

This post was written by Karina Pena of the Americas Society / Council of the Americas (AS/COA).  Read the original post on their website. On March 6, AS/COA held an expert panel on impact investing and social entrepreneurship in Latin America. …

Inaugural Duke Symposium on Scaling Innovations in Global Health

CASE is excited to announce the inaugural 2013 Duke Symposium on Scaling Innovations in Global Health. The Symposium is open to the public.  Activities will include networking opportunities, panel discussions and an exposition of SEAD global healthcare innovators. Date: Friday, April 5th 1:00 …

2013 ESI Award: Riders for Health

CASE is proud to announce the winner of our 2013 Enterprising Social Innovation Award: Riders for Health! Riders for Health is an international social enterprise that manages and maintains vehicles for health-focused partners in sub-Saharan Africa which enables health workers to …

10 Years of Impact and Counting

After 10 years, our team at CASE is incredibly proud of our accomplishments and even more excited to look to the future.  Of course, none of this is possible without the support and partnership of so many in the field. …