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Creating Financial Markets: Lessons from Finance Pioneer Ron D. Cordes

This post was written by first year MBA student Ian Cain.  Ian reflects on a recent visit from Ron D. Cordes, co-chairman of Genworth Financial Wealth Management and founder of ImpactAssets.  Cordes came to Fuqua as part of the CASE i3 speaker series on impact investing.  …

Antony Bugg-Levine: Create a more just world

This article was originally published by the Duke Divinity School’s Faith & Leadership online magazine and is bring reprinted with their permission. Antony Bugg-Levine, the chief executive officer of the Nonprofit Finance Fund, said individuals and organizations that support humanitarian social programs should …

The Gift of Shelter

This blog was written by CASE Fellow Beth Bafford.  She was joined on the trip by CASE Fellow (and frequent CASE blogger) Dan Baum, CASE Scholar Meredith Driscoll, and other CASE enthusiasts.  Over winter break, I had the great honor and opportunity …

Update on CASE Activities

Time for CASE’s quarterly check-in! Read about some of our recent happenings: Our most recent newsletter is chock full of goodies – an interview with Greg Dees, recaps of events with Antony Bugg-Levine and Benetech’s Jim Fruchterman, and our fun holiday video!  …

How to Foster Social Entrepreneurship with Greg Dees

CASE Founder Greg Dees was recently interviewed by Luke Miller Callahan, Founder of GroAction.  The interview covers a variety of interesting topics so we pulled out some highlights below – but we also recommend watching the interview in its entirety! IMPACT INVESTING …

Happy New Year!

Season’s Greetings and a very Happy New Year from our team at CASE! Take a quick look at our video celebrating 2011 – and keep watching until the end to see what we are so excited about celebrating in 2012:

Impact Investing: Get in the Game

his post was written by second year MBA student and CASE Fellow Beth Bafford. Beth reflects on a recent visit from Antony Bugg-Levine, CEO of the Nonprofit Finance Fund and recipient of the 2011 CASE Leadership in Social Entrepreneurship Award.  We had the …

CASE in the News

Jay-Z and Lady Gaga … and Greg Dees?  Certainly three names that I never thought I’d type in the same sentence (and I also never thought I’d be posting a picture of Jay-Z on the CASE blog)! But sure enough, Demos recently posted …

A Rocket Scientist & Awarding-Winning Social Entrepreneur

This post was written by second year MBA student and CASE Fellow Joanne Sprague. Joanne reflects on a recent visit from Jim Fruchterman, Founder of Benetech and the recipient of the 2011 CASE Award for Enterprising Social Innovation.  When you talk to Jim …